News 02.21.17
21 February 2017 News
A Neenah man is arrested after eluding authorities following a high speed chase. On Friday around 8:40 p.m. a Wisconsin State Trooper attempted to stop a speeding Saturn as it traveled northbound on Interstate 41 near Breezewood Lane in Neenah. The Trooper learned the vehicle previously eluded a traffic stop by a Winnebago County Deputy in the City of Oshkosh. The pursuit continued on Northbound 41 until the driver of the Saturn exited the highway using the County Highway BB exit. The driver lost control of the vehicle, crashed into a concrete wall and fled the scene. A female passenger drove the vehicle to a gas station where she was detained and transported to a hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Law enforcement conducted a search for the missing driver but could not find him. On Saturday around 7:15 p.m. Winnebago County authorities learned the car driver was staying at a residence in the County Crossing Mobile Home Park in Greenville. Troopers responded to the area, located and arrested the driver, identified as 24-year-old Joseph M. Buhrer. Buhrer was arrested for three outstanding warrants and criminal charges of Eluding an Officer, Recklessly Endangering Safety, Possession of THC and Possession of Drug paraphernalia. He was transported to the Winnebago County Jail.
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A man awaiting trial on several charges over a deadly standoff with police at a Wisconsin motorcycle shop lost his sixth court-appointed attorney because the lawyer said their relationship had deteriorated. A Winnebago County judge agreed to appoint another attorney for Brian Flatoff but warned the public defender’s office may run out of available lawyers to represent him if he continues to have problems with them. Flatoff’s most recent attorney described the relationship with Flatoff as “contaminated and antagonistic.” Flatoff is accused of taking hostages during a standoff with police on December 2015 at Eagle Nation Cycles in Neenah. Police killed one of the hostages, 60-year-old Michael Funk, because they mistakenly believed he was the hostage taker.
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An intruder who claimed to be armed got involved in a standoff with police in Neenah after a woman returned to her duplex and discovered the man inside. The woman told police she and a friend had returned to the duplex about 8:40 p.m. Sunday and were startled to find the intruder who told them he was armed. The two escaped from the residence and called police. The Neenah SWAT team responded. And, nearby homes were evacuated. Police were finally able to reach the man by phone about 12:15 a.m. Monday and he surrendered. The 26-year-old Neenah man was checked at the hospital and transferred to the Winnebago County Jail.
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Two Republican lawmakers have scrapped a bill to end daylight saving time in Wisconsin amid a backlash on social media and now want to make the sunshine-extending time change permanent year-round in the state. Reps. Samantha Kerkman and Michael Schraa introduced a bill last week that would have eliminated daylight saving time in Wisconsin. The change would mean the summer sun would set an hour earlier. Schraa says the news release went out prematurely and sparked a backlash on Facebook from people who didn’t want their summer evenings shortened. He said he and Kerkman are now working on a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent, which would mean the winter sun would set an hour later. The state would need a federal waiver to make that change.
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Waukesha police hope DNA evidence might help crack the cold-case death of an infant from more than 40 years ago. The body of a baby girl was found in a storm drain in the Milwaukee suburb on Jan. 6, 1975. The baby’s parents — and whoever placed her there — have never been identified. The community held a burial service for the girl, named “Baby Sarah,” and the investigation eventually was suspended. But the case was reopened last year. The baby’s body was exhumed and a DNA sample was taken. The sample is being analyzed for a DNA profile. Police say the baby weighed 9 pounds when she was found, and her lungs showed she had been breathing. Her official cause of death was exposure.
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Federal authorities are stepping up investigations at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals due to a sharp increase in opioid theft, missing prescriptions or unauthorized drug use by VA employees since 2009. Doctors, nurses or pharmacy staff at federal hospitals siphoned away controlled substances for their own use or street sales, or drugs intended for patients disappeared. Aggravating the problem is that some VA hospitals have been lax in tracking drug supplies. Congressional auditors say spot checks found four VA hospitals skipped monthly inspections of drug stocks or missed other requirements. Investigators say that signals problems for VA’s entire network. Both the inspector general’s office and the Drug Enforcement Administration say they have increased scrutiny of drug thefts from the VA.
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