Category: Crime and safety

Callers told her to comply by buying them gift cards or a federal investigation could be opened which would lead to her assets being frozen and her deportation.

A UW-Madison graduate student was scammed out of $15,000 Thursday by scammers who kept her on the phone for five hours while she bought gift cards to take care of her “problem.”

University Police stress they’re not walking around randomly testing people with breathalyzers. But if they find students causing problems for others, they will check to see if they’ve been drinking.

A Madison man who allegedly goes online to rent out a UW-Madison campus-area parking space that he doesn’t control has been arrested for theft.

Officers warned downtown residents last week of 23-year-old Tony Fountain, who they said was scamming University of Wisconsin students.

The suspect, using name “Bama Flow” online, was arrested earlier this summer for collecting rent on parking spot he does not own.

They claimed to have proof showing the two accusers were not impaired by alcohol on the night in question.

UW Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus was given a $5,000 signature bond in court Thursday morning.

On Wednesday, police said they were working to arrest 23-year-old Tony Fountain, of Madison, for scamming University of Wisconsin students.

A battery, which occurred on the Lakeshore Path at UW-Madison, was reported to the UW-Madison Police Department on Saturday.

A pair of University of Wisconsin-Madison police officers took the time to help a woman with a broken walker Tuesday morning, an official said.

A 30-year-old man was arrested early Friday morning after Madison police officers heard a gunshot Downtown near the UW-Madison campus.

A former UW-Madison employee pleaded guilty Friday to several felony charges after stealing more than $100,000 from the university’s housing division.

Two suspects led a University of Wisconsin Police Department officer on a brief chase Wednesday evening, leading to a crash with another vehicle and ending in arrest.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison police said an officer was on patrol on Park Street at about 6 p.m. when the officer spotted a stolen vehicle traveling near Dayton Street.

A Brookfield father, whose daughter is enrolled in the UW System, told Ehlke that he was out of touch and a threat to society. “The common consensus around here is that you don’t understand justice,” he wrote in a letter filed with the court.

An attempted strong-arm robbery occurred on North Lake Street between University Avenue and West Johnson Street early Sunday morning, according to a UW-Madison Crime Warning issued the same morning.

Former UW-Madison student Alec Cook paid two victims a total of just over $25,000 in restitution in connection to his convictions for campus sexual assault and stalking.

Officers drove from all over Wisconsin and as far as Michigan and Iowa to help create a new active threat training video that will keep more students safe on campus. The video was filmed at UW-Madison’s Law School.

Joel DeSpain, a spokesperson with the Madison Department, said the student was scammed out of $27,000 to “prove her innocence” after being talked into believing she was a suspect in a money-laundering crime.

The fraternity chapter at 124 Langdon St. was placed on interim suspension “for a safety-related incident during the weekend of June 30-July 1,” according to a news release Thursday from UW-Madison.

The incident happened on Langdon Street over the weekend of June 30, officials said.

The University of Wisconsin suspended Kappa Sigma fraternity Thursday following a viral video which showed a woman narrowly avoiding being crushed by a falling television at a party.

Videos reportedly taken outside a UW-Madison fraternity showing a falling television narrowly missing a woman have prompted police to investigate the incident.

UW-Madison’s Kappa Sigma Fraternity had its charter withdrawn from the national branch of the organization Tuesday for an incident at a party this past weekend, according to a screenshot of an email from the Supreme Executive Committee of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

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A Wisconsin state senator had harsh words for a judge who sentenced a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student to three years in prison as punishment for sexually assaulting not one, but three female students.

Alec Cook,  a 22-year-old former University of Wisconsin-Madison student was handed a light-weight three year prison sentence by Judge Stephen Ehlke for raping three female students.

In an open letter to sexual assault survivors, University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman expressed her “deep disappointment” with the recent Alec Cook sentencing even as she encouraged sexual assault victims to keep hope.

Alec Cook had initially been charged with 23 different crimes involving 11 female accusers, all them fellow students at University of Wisconsin-Madison. As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, the 22-year-old in February pleaded guilty to five of those charges — three counts of third-degree sexual assault, one count of strangulation and one count of stalking.

Chief Roman said she is angered, disheartened and dismayed by how many women are sexually assaulted while in college.

University of Wisconsin Police Chief Kristen Roman on Thursday published An Open Letter to Sexual Assault Survivors, expressing her disappointment with the sentence given to Alec Cook last week.

Six Wisconsin lawmakers this week condemned what they said was a lenient three-year prison sentence given to a former University of Wisconsin student who admitted to sexually assaulting three women and choking or stalking two others.

Cook is a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student who pleaded guilty to three counts of third-degree sexual assault, and one count each of strangulation and stalking. The case drew regional and national media coverage.

A group of state and local elected officials on Tuesday joined a chorus of criticism of Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke’s three-year prison sentence for expelled University of Wisconsin-Madison student Alec Cook, a punishment they say was too light for a “serial sexual assault perpetrator.”

A group of Madison-area elected officials Tuesday slammed a Dane County judge’s decision to give “a slap on the wrist” to an ex-University of Wisconsin-Madison student from a wealthy family who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three female students and choking or stalking two others.

UW police received a report around 5 p.m. of a possible child abuse situation in the Eagle Heights community on the northwest end of campus, officials said.

Last Tuesday, a malicious phishing email claiming to be from Chancelor Rebecca Blank was sent to students. The subject line read “Attention Required,”and the email asked students to open an attached document discussing a “Business Integrity Program.”

A judge’s light sentence for a man convicted of multiple sexual assaults, stalking and choking women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is drawing outrage.

A serial rapist was sentenced to 3 years in prison in Dane County Court. Alec Cook, accused of sexually assaulting 11 women around the UW-Madison campus. He will also be under extended release for five years after serving his jail time.

Eleven female UW Madison students came forward to tell their stories of assault.