Category: Crime and safety

The former University of Wisconsin-Madison football player accused of killing two women appeared in court Friday for the final time before his trial begins next week.

Riley Jensen, 17, appeared in court Tuesday for a competency hearing. Online records show the court made findings of incompetency. The state made an oral motion to dismiss the case, which was accepted.

The Madison Police Department says it is working with the UW-Madison Police Department to identify the person, who was seen vandalizing the UW Hillel Foundation building, the Lowell Center, and an E-bike station last week.

Graffiti was found on the UW Hillel Foundation building, an organization that supports Jewish students, and Lowell Center, a residence hall. MPD said spray paint was also put on a nearby E-bike station, which is operated by the City.

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Police Department tested new AI security screening technology on campus on Sunday, using products created by Liberty Defense.

A blown transformer forced approximately 500 UW Housing residents to vacate by 1 a.m. on Saturday.

Although 2022 crime rates have statistically been similar to 2020 and 2021, many students and community members are on edge due to a perceived uptick in violence near the UW-Madison campus.

One person is now in custody after a stabbing occurred just west of downtown Madison, near UW’s campus, early Sunday morning.

Victim did not sustain life-threatening injuries, according to MPD.

Wisconsin football took on Minnesota in an annual rivalry Sunday where a number of students received citations or were ejected from the game at Camp Randall.

UWPD shared on Facebook the Badger’s football game against Minnesota was K9 Maya’s last Wisconsin Football game day.

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing University of Wisconsin-Madison student who hasn’t been heard from in more than a month.

In an incident report posted Monday, Madison Police Department stated that the family of Enzhe Xun reported him missing after not hearing from him. He is an international student from China.

Robert Joehnk, 21, of Madison appeared in Dane County Court Wednesday on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges and two counts of misdemeanor fourth-degree sexual assault.

“UW-Madison is aware of an incident Saturday related to City of Madison Halloween celebrations,” university spokesperson John Lucas said. “UW-Madison stands against antisemitism and all forms of bigotry and discrimination. The incident took place off-campus. While we are still in the process of learning more, to the best of our knowledge, the individual involved is not affiliated with UW-Madison.”

The man who killed UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann inside her downtown Madison apartment has admitted his guilt more than 14 years after the murder.

The 14½-year mystery about the killer of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann ended Thursday when David Kahl, who had been running a door-to-door scam in Zimmermann’s neighborhood the day she died, pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional homicide.

David Kahl was charged more than two years ago with killing Brittany Zimmermann. His trial was set to begin in January.

The UW-Madison Police Department released several photos of the two suspects. Police explained that while the suspects were “well-covered and masked,” officers hope that the community may have more information on the pair and the incident itself.

Campus police say the two were captured on surveillance video spray painting multiple walls, signs, boats, displays, memorials, and pieces of art in the Memorial Union and Alumni Park area. An estimated $30,000 in damage was done, according to police.

The UW-Madison Police Department (UWPD) is investigating after private videos and photos of some student-athletes are being shared, according to a statement from UW Athletics.

UW-Madison Police Department is investigating after photos and video were shared of Badgers volleyball athletes without their consent, university officials stated Wednesday.

2022 UWPD Annual Fire & Safety Report finds, discusses violence on campus.

Explicit photos and video of the Wisconsin volleyball team circulated online this week, prompting university response.

“The unauthorized sharing is a significant and wrongful invasion of the student-athletes’ privacy, including potential violations of university policies and criminal statutes,” the statement from the athletic department said.

Sexual assaults harder for police to prevent since officers ’can’t necessarily pinpoint when or where they’ll occur’

An 18-year-old was charged Thursday with sexual assault for allegedly slapping a woman while on part of the UW-Madison campus last month.

UWPD credited a tip for helping them find the individual and positively identify him, the agency reported Wednesday morning. A police department spokesperson previously said its investigators had exhausted their tools for finding him and were turning to the public for help.

A 19-year-old man faces four felony charges after allegedly breaking into an apartment near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus last week and sexually assaulting a sleeping woman.

Police did not give many details on the incident, but said the battery occurred in a crosswalk on Johnson Street near campus on October 1 after the Badgers’ loss to Illinois.

The University of Wisconsin Police Department released two pictures of the person of interest in a battery that happened right after a Badgers football game and are asking for help identifying the individual.

A victim reported being sexually assaulted on Sunday during a string of burglaries at a University of Wisconsin off-campus housing complex.

The incidents occurred Sunday in the 400 block of West Gorham Street. Police said multiple people reported that the man entered their apartment, and one person reported being sexually assaulted.

The UW-Madison community relies heavily on “WiscAlerts,” the emergency notification system on campus, but few are aware of its limitations and what the other systems available on campus provide.

UWPD said Clash-Miller is not affiliated with the university.

A UW-Madison student told 27 News she knew she needed to remain calm as she tried to talk down a residence hall intruder after he threatened several students last month.