Category: Crime and safety

24-year old Nathan Friar appealed his conviction after the trial judge questioned the jury’s thinking in finding Friar guilty of second degree sexual assault, yet acquitting him of strangling the victim.

Those who work with rape victims think the not guilty verdict in Quintez Cephus’ sexual assault trial isn’t a surprise.

During closing arguments, prosecutor William Brown urged the jury to find Cephus guilty on both counts. “This is how sexual assault happens. It happens in private. It happens with someone who has more power, someone who has more control.”

UW-Madison’s former receiver Quintez Cephus was found not guilty on both counts of second- and third-degree sexual assault after 30 minutes of deliberation, a four-day trial and a year-long football suspension.

Davis conceded he took a photo of one of the women naked during the evening of the incident at Cephus’s urging.

On Thursday, UW football player Danny Davis testified in court, admitting to taking photos of the two women who say Cephus sexually assaulting them. Davis and Cephus are former teammates. Davis called his actions a “big mistake” during his testimony.

UW football player Davis says victim expressed concern about “hooking up” with Cephus.

On Monday morning, three people found their windows shattered and valuables stolen from their cars parked in the UW Health Hospital parking ramp.”It’s very upsetting, and I understand that,” University of Wisconsin Police Spokesperson, Marc Lovicott said.

The prosecution is trying to prove the women were too drunk to consent, while the defense says the women knew what they were doing and had a consensual threesome with Cephus.

The trial of former University of Wisconsin football player Quintez Cephus began Tuesday with a woman testifying that Cephus raped her in his apartment.

She described a night of drinking in a dorm room and at Madison bars, but said she doesn’t remember much about getting to Cephus’ apartment.

Victim reports extreme intoxication, confusion throughout the incident.

“We had an unusually high number of break-ins, particularly this past weekend,” Marc Lovicott, UWPD spokesman, said.

Twenty four potential jurors were questioned by Dane County Judge William Hanrahan, the prosecuting attorney and defense attorney for more than two hours Monday morning.

Cephus charged with two counts of felony sexual assault.

According to the incident report, the man was walking at around 1:30 a.m. when a partially masked man grabbed him and demanded he give him “anything he had.”

Christensen’s LinkedIn profile states he graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2013.

According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Kohl Center will open around 11 a.m. and anticipate closing around 6 p.m.

A former UW-Madison student is facing life in prison for the rape and murder of a 26-year-old scholar from China whom he abducted from a bus stop near campus in 2017, after a federal jury said Thursday that they failed to agree on sentencing him to death.

Advocate counseled one of the victims after alleged assault.

Matthew Herndon of University of Wisconsin-Madison physics testified Thursday he taught Brendt Christensen and went on to employ him and wrote a letter of recommendation to get Christensen into Illinois’ physics program.

“One of our officers just happened to learn about this stolen car, had just gotten the information about it, and lo and behold, it’s right in front of him,” said UWPD public information officer Marc Lovicott.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department officers spotted a stolen vehicle on Chadbourne Avenue and North Roby Street at about 7:11 p.m. on Wednesday. When officers approached the car, the two occupants tried to get away.

A former Stevens Point man and UW graduate could be put to death for killing a woman.

Victim reported feeling incoherent, unable to protest assault.

Ahead of the increased immigration enforcement expected to start this weekend, UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman is reminding the community that the department will not assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Rogers graduated from UW-Madison in December with a degree in atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

New information from UW-Madison police suggests that road rage sparked an incident involving a man pulling a gun on a couple at the UW Arboretum over the weekend.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said they identified the man as 24-year-old Lue Lee of Sun Prairie. He was arrested in Sun Prairie without incident.

UWPD officers interviewed multiple people involved and identified the suspect as Lue Lee, 24. Lee was arrested without incident in Sun Prairie, according to police.

A UW-Madison ROTC student was charged Friday with two counts of felony, second degree sexual assault of a woman incapable of giving consent due to intoxication.

UW–Madison police have made an arrest, after being called to the UW Arboretum Saturday afternoon for a man with a gun.

A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday after displaying a gun at someone while driving in the UW Arboretum, according to UW-Madison Police.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department hosted almost 40 different K-9 teams from across the Midwest for an ATF odor recognition training and certification session at the Kohl Center.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police arrested a Madison man Monday for robbery and resisting arrest after he allegedly stole cash from a Memorial Union employee.

Officers and detectives from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department arrested Delmont L. Moore Monday afternoon after security cameras helped identify him as the individual who took cash from a Memorial Union employee.

A UW-Madison Memorial Union employee was shaken early Sunday morning when a man grabbed cash out of her hands and ran, but the man was arrested Monday afternoon, thanks to security cameras.

Two people were arrested early Sunday morning after one of the two allegedly stabbed a man in the stomach at The Hub, an upscale apartment building near the UW-Madison campus.

A man who was charged in February for a random attack on a woman as she walked alone on Langdon Street pleaded guilty Monday to three felonies.

The man charged in the attack of a UW-Madison student in February of 2019 plead guilty to two counts of first degree recklessly endangering safety, and one count of substantial battery – all as a repeater – Monday after in court.

Jerome Winslow, 22, was arrested Feb. 6 after an extensive search by police of downtown surveillance cameras.

The man, Mark Slattery Lindblom, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to “knowingly” entering and staying in a restricted area on Mar-a-Lago on November 23, 2018, the day after Thanksgiving, according to court filings.

UWPD will patrol the area to maintain safety and security for staff and attendees, according to a press release.

The Madison Police Department responded to several incidents downtown this weekend, from a weapons violation to a sexual assault.

Madison police are investigating a situation that happened early Sunday morning near UW-Madison’s campus.

Of the three dozen departments that responded to NBC15 Investigates, University of Wisconsin Police Department Chief Kristen Roman was the only one who said she has seen a bit of an increase in the number of applicants the last three to five years. Roman credits, in part, their creative and sometimes comical recruitment techniques noting a recruitment video that involved a number of staff from her department.

Rice asked for a sentence of three years in prison and eight years of extended supervision. He argued in the sentencing memorandum that Campbell was plotting a bomb attack on the UW-Madison campus, and drew comparisons between Campbell and infamous domestic terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski.

A man who was convicted of stockpiling dangerous chemicals and building explosives inside his westside Madison apartment was sentenced to two years in prison Monday.

A 21-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in the March 24 baseball-bat beating death of his mother inside their Campton Hills home, which his defense attorney said was a “horrible accident.”