News 06.24.16
24 June 2016 News
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Deputies will be participating in Operation Dry Water this weekend on Lake Winnebago. This operation is part of a national initiative to reduce the number of alcohol and drug related accidents and fatalities on the water. Captain Rick Olig says the campaign was started on a national level in 2009 and serves as a reminder to not operate on the water while under the influence. Since its start, Olig says law enforcement officers have removed over 2,100 boating under the influence (BUI) operators from the nation’s waterways and made contact with over 729,000 boaters during the annual three-day weekend. The enforcement is always held the weekend prior to the 4th of July holiday. It will run June 24th-26th.
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More information is released regarding a fatal three-vehicle accident in Fond du Lac County. The crash happened around 11:40 a.m. Wednesday morning in Fond du Lac on Interstate 41 north between Military Road and Johnson street. The Wisconsin State Patrol says a semi-truck was slowing down when the crash happened. A car behind the semi also was slowing down, but a Jeep Grand Cherokee then hit the car from behind, pushing it into the back of the semi. 26-year-old David Button and an 8-year-old boy, both from Neenah, who were in the car died at the scene. A passenger in the jeep, 35-year-old Matthew Will of Eldorado, was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries. The car driver, 23-year-old Alysha Button of Neenah, and the Jeep driver, 32-year-old Travis Wollersheim of North Fond du Lac, were taken by ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries. The semi operator, 60-year-old David Schneider, was not injured.
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Oshkosh Police say a 29-year-old Horicon man is arrested after an internet child sex sting. The man was taken into custody late Wednesday after he traveled to Oshkosh to meet someone he believed to be an underage girl. Police say the man was chatting with an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl. He had allegedly offered to meet the girl to sell her marijuana and have sex with her. Oshkosh Police did not release the man’s name.
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The driver of a car involved in an accident in Dodge County has died from injuries suffered in that crash. 16-year-old Gabrielle Spende of rural Watertown was pronounced dead at Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee on Wednesday. The accident happened Monday afternoon on Welsh Road under the Highway 26 bridge in the Town of Emmet. Investigation shows Spende was traveling south on Welsh Road when her vehicle entered a curve in the roadway and slid into a bridge pillar. Spende, who was the lone occupant of the vehicle, was flown from the scene to Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee. The accident remains under investigation.
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Gov. Scott Walker’s administration is telling state employees what changes to their work rules will take effect next week. On July 1st, a state law signed by Walker takes effect that reshapes the state’s 111-year-old civil service system, making it easier to hire and fire workers. Walker’s administration on Wednesday emailed all state employees with details about how the law will be implemented. The memo says the administration worked with more than 200 human resources professionals across the state on the implementation plan. But not all the work is done. Changes to the layoff process, which will now be based on performance and not seniority, continue to be a work in progress. And a new state hiring website isn’t expected to launch until March.
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Madison’s police chief is defending his officers’ actions in the arrest of an 18-year-old woman outside a mall that has generated claims of unfair treatment. Police Chief Mike Koval held a news conference Wednesday after demonstrators gathered outside the Public Safety Building to protest how officers handled the arrest at East Towne Mall. Police say Genele Laird displayed a knife, threatened to kill mall security staff and resisted arrest. Koval says police have an obligation to restore order, but he has ordered an internal review of the arrest. A video of the arrest shows Madison police officers struggling with Laird as they took her to the ground to handcuff her Tuesday. Two officers were treated for injuries.
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The owner of the only fuel pipeline serving northeastern Wisconsin shuts it down indefinitely as it considers the future of the aging line. West Shore Pipe Line Co. is looking into how to supply the Green Bay area with gas and diesel fuel in the meantime. The 55-year-old pipeline that runs from north of Milwaukee to Green Bay was closed for repairs and inspection in March and hasn’t been reopened since. The only way to get fuel to Green Bay and beyond to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is to use additional tanker trucks. Gov. Scott Walker issued an emergency declaration in May allowing tanker truck drivers to work extra hours each week so they could make more fuel runs to Green Bay.
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