News 05.16.16
16 May 2016 News
The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office will be hosting a Law Enforcement Citizen’s Academy. Deputy Pete Ehlert says the academy allows participants to experience different facets of law enforcement and also provides hands-on opportunities to better understand what the Sheriff’s Office does. Ehlert says the academy is free of charge and is open to the first 15 adults to submit applications. Applications are available on the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office website and must be submitted by 4pm on Friday July 1st. The academy runs on Tuesdays from August 23rd through November 15th.
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The IRS scams continue. Police in multiple cities including Ripon, Waupun, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac have started issuing warnings to people about another round of phone call scams. The latest calls start as an automated message telling people they have late payments to the IRS and may be sued or arrested if they don’t make a payment. The message then gives a phone number to call back. Police remind people that no one from the IRS will ever call looking for payments. All information will be mailed and come on official letterhead.
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A Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s detective says an armed robbery last summer is an example of why a convenience store clerk should never resist or confront the robber. Last summer the Highway 151 Mobile gas station clerk tried to stop the thieves after his store was robbed. One of the masked men pointed an assault rifle at the clerk…but fortunately no shots were fired. Sheriff’s Lieutenant of Detectives, Cameron McGee, says the 15 year prison sentence and 20 years of extended supervision was appropriate given the circumstances. McGee says this isn’t the first time the man has been in trouble, and the judge picked an appropriate sentence to protect the public.
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Republican Gov. Scott Walker is calling for a number of changes in Wisconsin’s plan to combat chronic wasting disease but they don’t include widespread killing of deer. Walker’s office announced Friday that he wants studies on deer population dynamics and CWD’s effects on deer as well as quicker test results. He also wants more input from hunters and more frequent deer farm fence inspections. The release offered no other specifics. Walker’s spokesman says the Department of Natural Resources will start implementing the orders immediately. A DNR spokesman says the details haven’t been finalized. Democrats want Walker to step up efforts to contain CWD after infection rates hit a new high last year. They have called for the DNR to launch another attempt to aggressively thin the herd in infection zones.
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Madison-area law enforcement officials are asking for the public’s help in solving three fatal shootings in the past three weeks that they say are linked. Police chiefs from Madison and Town of Madison held a joint press conference Thursday to reassure and mobilize members of the public. They say they believe the shootings involve at least two rival gang factions. The two most recent shootings occurred at gas stations Tuesday and Wednesday in the Town of Madison and the city of Madison. Town of Madison Police Chief Scott Gregory says the recklessness of the murders has been particularly disturbing, with all three taking place in public settings and two happening during daylight hours.
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The leader of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin says it won’t plant a new crop of industrial hemp until a federal judge resolves the tribe’s lawsuit against the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Chairwoman Joan Delabreau says the DEA raid last fall that destroyed the tribe’s first crop has cost the Menominee millions of dollars. She spoke Friday after attorneys for both sides presented oral arguments in Green Bay on the DEA’s motion to dismiss the case. Industrial hemp has tiny levels of THC, the active chemical in marijuana, but it has commercial uses from hemp oil for health and beauty products to hemp fiber. The tribe wants to cultivate hemp as a way to boost the struggling economy on its reservation near Shawano.
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