Category: Crime and safety

MPD made one arrest while another suspect for a separate crime is still at large, prompting UW to encourage safety resources.

No criminal charges will be filed against an unidentified, now-former UW Health employee who took an unauthorized look at the medical records of a homicide victim last year, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office said.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students are flooding social media with concerns about the school’s public safety alert system after an attack near campus.

As Madison police continue to keep extra patrols in the Langdon Street area, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students are wondering why they weren’t notified of the substantial battery of a student right when it happened.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison plastic surgeon who was the subject of a sexual misconduct case in New York before being hired by the university has been accused in a lawsuit of sexual exploitation and medical negligence in his care of a woman who had undergone cosmetic surgery procedures by him last year.

“It appeared to be an attack by a stranger,” DeSpain said.

The victim, who had just been dropped off by the driver, let him into her apartment because he claimed he needed to use the bathroom, according to a police report.

A woman was battered early Sunday morning in Madison’s Downtown near what’s known as fraternity row for UW-Madison.

Witness reported man trying to drag victim towards Lake Mendota.

We also learned that University of Wisconsin-Madison police Chief Kristen Roman is the center of a Venn diagram merging law enforcement leaders, the rebel alliance and safe commutes:

Campus buildings will reopen at noon Thursday and instructions will resume at 1 p.m. Courses that start at or after 1 p.m. will be held.

While Blank found some changes helpful, she noted five areas that needed to be improved in order to provide equitable protective policies and procedures to students. Her concerns focused on the role of campus disciplinary proceedings, appropriate standards of proof, off-campus conduct, informal resolutions and cross-examination processes.

A man suspected of robbing a South Side restaurant at gunpoint Tuesday, then running into the UW Arboretum, was arrested after more than two hours in the bitter cold, a pursuit that involved a large police contingent searching for the man before the extreme cold could make matters worse.

The suspect has been found and is currently in custody.

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.