Category: Crime and safety

Officials said there was not an active fire and the smoke came from a large oven in the basement of the building. There was some damage to the building because fire sprinklers activated from the smoke.

The Madison Police Department has been unable to find an armed woman who was reported at the 1700 block of Monroe Street Monday afternoon.

A woman who was driving drunk and didn’t stop after her car struck a UW-Madison student in 2017 as she crossed a street with friends, causing injuries that months later resulted in the student’s death, was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison.

The resident didn’t see who fired the pellet gun.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police shared an image of text included in one of the hoax messages, which included, ” There is an explosive device (lead azide) in the building where your company is conducted.”

A Cottage Grove man who allegedly resisted a police officer after getting in an altercation with another man inside a UW Hospital parking ramp was arrested Tuesday, according to the UW-Madison Police Department.

A Madison man who slipped into a UW-Madison dormitory last year and groped two female students as they slept in their beds was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison.

Proposal’s critics allege changes give greater rights to accused, corrodes trust in survivors.

The Psi chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity has ended its participation as a UW-Madison registered student organization after the university’s investigation into misconduct resulted in unsubstantiated findings.

A man who’s been arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior in the past was arrested once again for allegedly masturbating in front of two people in a UW-Madison campus area apartment building.

Students escaped the cold, snowy night and gathered in the Multicultural Student Center Lounge Wednesday to engage in a Deconstructing Rape Culture workshop, a collaboration between PAVE and Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity.

More than 100 people from the Madison community gathered at the Pyle Center to discuss impacts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests that occurred across Wisconsin in late September.

The trauma and hurt experienced by members of this community and their loved ones was still palpable and on full display at the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin Campus Tuesday night during a community forum about the experience and aftermath of the ICE assault, and the ones likely to come.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison received two reports of possible drugging incidents on Nov. 9. According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department, they occurred on the 200 block of Langdon Street.

The chapter may not attempt to re-register as a student organization for five years, through Jan. 1, 2024.

A person bending down behind a horse at the UW-Madison Veterinary School was kicked in the head, landing the person in the hospital.

Paramedics escorted the patient to the ambulance, tended to a wound that resulted from the incident, and transported the patient to the emergency room, officials said.

A Waunakee woman whose car struck a UW-Madison student as she crossed a campus-area street last year, then drove away, pleaded no contest Wednesday to homicide by drunken driving.

Many overdoses play out like one shown in body camera footage NBC15 Investigates requested from UW Madison Police.

Nicole Bruns faces up to 25 years of combined prison, extended supervision.

Parents of UW students will also be able to receive alerts.

Ryan Karich, a UW-Madison student and another resident at 200 Langdon, said that during the incident he heard yelling from another floor of the house. When he came downstairs and realized what happened, he assisted in calling the police.

A 19-year-old who robbed a college student at knifepoint in a building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was arrested within hours of the incident, police said.

According to a police report, two men were found going through the house at 200 Langdon Street at about 11:20 p.m. When they were confronted, the suspects showed a gun and left. No one was hurt.

This year’s Freakfest drew a crowd of over 20,000 people, a small increase from 2017 but nearly 10,000 less than the crowd in 2016. Organizers attributed last year’s small crowd of 19,000 to cold weather, but Saturday’s event was nearly 10 degrees warmer and only resulted in a minor increase in attendance.

The victim was 21-year-old West Side resident Steven Villegas, whom police believe had come downtown to partake in Freakfest activities. His murder marks Madison’s fifth homicide this year.

UWPD has partnered with Trek Bicycles to host a program on campus that will encourage safe cycling for students and community members.

A sexual assault occurred on campus earlier this week, according to a crime warning UW-Madison students received via email Thursday.

A jury found Nathan Friar guilty of second degree sexual assault in April of last year, but acquitted him of a strangulation charge.

Police believe call was to tax police resources.

The UW-Madison Police Department said Monday night that officers were responding to the university’s School of Veterinary Medicine for what is believed to be a “swatting” incident.

The UW-Madison Police Department will be testing out an off-campus alert to warn students of emergency situations east of campus, while parents of students will now be able to receive WiscAlert notifications for on-campus incidents.

A man with a gun was reported near Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus Wednesday night, prompting a WiscAlert warning to students and staff, but the “all clear” was given about a half-hour later when no man with a gun was found.

Madison police hope you can help them find men who caused a WiscAlert to be sent.