Category: Crime and safety

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.”

Authorities say Dorton was fired from her job at Delta Delta Delta sorority in early 2016 for violating terms of her contract. The complaint says student leaders at the house later came to suspect she had been making unauthorized purchases on a sorority credit card.

The former house director for a sorority near the UW-Madison campus was charged this week with embezzling more than $225,000 from the sorority over a period of more than six years.

Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, NOW organizers discuss the importance of protesting rape culture on campus.

Mariono L. Weaver, 48, currently an inmate at New Lisbon Correctional Institution, was tied by DNA evidence to reported sexual assaults in Madison, the town of Madison, Fitchburg and on the UW-Madison campus, according to the search warrant, which was filed by the state Department of Justice.

A UW-Madison spokesperson said that they treated it like all graffiti, by promptly removing it and reaching out to those it targets.

An annual tradition since 1969, Mifflin Street Block Party will be celebrating it’s 50th year on Saturday, and police are preparing for anything.

A UW-Madison student brought attention via Twitter to a second sticker from the white nationalist group Hundred-Handers, garnering a response from students and faculty Tuesday.

In 2017, within the span of a week, Chung attempted to abduct a woman from the UW-Madison campus, sexually assaulted an unconscious UW-Madison student and attacked another woman while trying to rob her.

A Monona man who tried to abduct a woman from the UW-Madison campus in 2017, and in the same week sexually assaulted an unconscious woman and attacked and tried to rob another woman on a Downtown street, was sentenced Wednesday to 22½ years in prison.

The University of Wisconsin Police Department hosted its annual awards ceremony Wednesday to present awards to a number of department personnel and community members. At the event, four award recipients got quite the surprise.

This time, a burglar came in through a sliding glass door early Saturday morning and took two laptop computers and other items from an apartment on Saint James Court, Madison police said.

A sticker labeled with white-nationalist messaging created by extremist group Hundred-Handers was found on campus today. The sticker read “Make America White Again,” and included the group’s Twitter handle, official website and email address, listed from a secure email service.