Category: Crime and safety

UW-Madison handed down their harshest-ever sanctions for sexual assaults that occurred in 2016, expelling three students from the university.

No injuries were reported after a University of Wisconsin police vehicle owned by the Dane County Sheriff’s Office was hit while stationed in traffic.

Prosecutors have charged former UW-Madison student Alec Cook with another felony, this one for allegedly cornering a woman in the laundry room of a dormitory in 2014, bringing to 11 the number of women who said that Cook sexually assaulted or harassed them.

The expulsion of Alec Cook, a UW-Madison student accused of serial sexual assault and harassment, is final despite his attorneys’ attempt to appeal a disciplinary panel’s recommendation.

UW spokesperson Meredith McGlone said the non-academic misconduct hearing against Cook was complete, and the university’s final decision was still expulsion.

Officials with the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Tuesday that the former student accused of numerous instances of sexual assault has officially been expelled.

UW-Madison employees will be required to take an online training program about sexual harassment and violence starting in July.

Dane County officials Friday released the name of the windsurfer killed this week.

A windsurfer killed when he was struck by a University of Wisconsin rescue boat on Lake Mendota was identified by the Dane County medical examiner’s office Friday as Yu Chen, 43, of Madison.

A 20-year-old UW-Madison student was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash Friday morning, police said. Hours later, police arrested a 21-year-old Madison man on a tentative charge of failure to render aid.

A UW-Madison student suffered “significant injuries” in a hit-and-run Friday morning, according to the Madison Police Department.

A man who “piggybacked” off students to get into a University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall last month is a suspect in a sexual assault case, police said.

The man accused of hitting and killing a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last month is headed to trial.

Few of these warnings of sexual assault resulted in police investigations, and even fewer—one out of the 24 total—resulted in an arrest. That arrest ended in deferred prosecution.

University of Wisconsin-Madison police officers were out and about Tuesday with a new effort to enforce pedestrian safety laws.

UHS representatives said they will be adding new violence prevention programs for fall 2017.

Two men held a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin student at gunpoint on North Mills Street early Friday morning.

A man accused of killing a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was walking in downtown Madison Saturday night had a blood-alcohol concentration of .146 percent, according to court documents.

Madison police are investing a robbery Tuesday around 10:30 p.m. on Langdon Street in downtown Madison.

The man who was behind the wheel of a car that hit three people on a South Park Street sidewalk Saturday evening, killing a UW-Madison student, is expected to face criminal charges that include homicide by intoxicated driving, authorities said Monday.

A man with a knife was reported on the UW-Madison campus Monday evening, but police believe he does not pose an ongoing threat, the UW-Madison Police Department said.

A bystander was told by the victim’s friends on the scene that the victim was a University of Wisconsin-Madison student from China.

A man who told police he had a gun barricaded himself in a patient room at UW Hospital on Saturday evening before being taken into custody after an officer fired a non-lethal beanbag round at him.

The University of Wisconsin Police Department detained an armed individual after he barricaded himself inside a patient room at University Hospital Saturday.

A jury found suspended UW-Madison student Nathan Friar guilty of second degree sexual assault late Thursday night.

A student was robbed Monday night outside a UW-Madison residence hall, with the two suspects getting away with the man’s backpack before fleeing.

A UW student testified Tuesday of being “terrified” as acquaintance Nathan Friar strangled her, as Friar’s Dane County trial on sexual assault and strangulation began.

A strong armed robbery was reported outside a Lakeshore residence hall Monday night, according to a UW-Madison Police Department Crime Warning.

UW-Madison police are recommending additional criminal charges against a former university student accused of sexually assaulting or harassing 10 women.

The study done by cyber security company ID Agent shows the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a big target, but university officials are not certain the results are accurate.

A new victim and new charges have come to light in the case against former University of Wisconsin student Alec Cook.

Noted: Police circulated a photo of Anderson from the security camera to other law enforcement departments. University of Wisconsin-Madison police recognized Anderson from a previous contact when he allegedly harassed a worker at Union South the previous week and provided Madison police his name.

Police got their biggest break on Tuesday after they sent an image from one of the cameras across the Wisconsin Crime Alert Network, used by law enforcement to share tips and alerts. Anderson was identified by a member of the UW-Madison Police Department, who noticed the similarity with a photo of Anderson taken by a camera at Union South on March 20, when Anderson allegedly harassed an employee there, according to UW-Madison police spokesman Marc Lovicott.

For the second time this month, a committee at UW-Madison has voted to expel a student charged with sexual assault.

Madison police have released a surveillance video image of two people allegedly involved in an unprovoked attack on a Madison man early Saturday morning near the UW-Madison campus.