News 09.02.16
2 September 2016 News
The Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office is looking for information following a burglary and vehicle theft from a residential garage. Chief Deputy Mark Putzke says the incident happened between August 20th and 21st at a residence on South Road and County Highway E/F, four miles west of Berlin, in the Town of Seneca. Putzke says firearms and other items were taken from the garage along with the citizen’s truck. The truck was used to pull another vehicle from the ditch and was then abandoned along the roadside. Putzke says the incident is most likely related to a drug and alcohol party that was held in the area. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office or Crimestoppers at 1-800-438-8436.
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Waupun Utility crews were called in Wednesday night following a major power outage in the city. The outage occurred shortly before 9pm Wednesday. Mayor Julie Nickel says it appears about two thirds of the city was without power. Nickel says four of the city’s five substations were without power. The problem was narrowed to an area near County Highway MM and most of the city was back on line about an hour and a half later. Nickel says at this point officials are not sure what caused the outage.
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A recent drug bust on Interstate 41 in Fond du Lac County following a recent routine traffic stop may be more than just luck for area law enforcement. Two people were arrested and an estimated $45,000 worth of illegal drugs were confiscated after a sheriff’s deputy pulled over a vehicle for following too close to another vehicle on 41 just south of Fond du lac. Sheriff’s sergeant Paul Rotscholl says Interstate 41 is a major drug trafficking corridor between Chicago, Milwaukee and the Fox Valley. He says drugs are probably passing by the city of Fond du Lac on I-41 daily.
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Two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill a classmate to please horror character Slender Man want jurors from outside their home county to decide their trials. Morgan Geyser’s attorneys filed a motion this week to seek jurors from outside Waukesha County because of heavy media coverage. Geyser has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. A letter the other girl’s defense attorneys submitted to the court seeks outside jurors too. The letter noted that girl plans to plead not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Prosecutors say the girls lured classmate Payton Leutner to some woods in a Waukesha park in May 2014, stabbed her and fled. Payton crawled out of the woods to get help. All the girls were 12 at the time.
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A Wisconsin legislator says he plans to introduce a bill outlawing a new synthetic drug. Rep. Joel Kleefisch, an Oconomowoc Republican, says that he plans to introduce a measure banning the sale and possession of U-47700, a synthetic opiod. The drug is nearly eight times more potent than morphine and has been linked to at least 50 deaths nationwide. Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling says U-47700 has killed two people in his county. Kleefisch says the chemicals in the drug mirror heroin but are different enough that it’s stayed off Wisconsin’s controlled substances list. The next legislative session begins in January. Before he can introduce his bill Kleefisch will have to survive a re-election challenge from Marshall Democrat Scott Michalak in November.
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With less than 10 weeks to go until the election, about a third of Wisconsin voters say they don’t know enough about incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson to form an opinion of him. And 25 percent say in the Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday that they don’t know enough about Democrat Russ Feingold to make a decision. Among registered voters, Feingold had 46 percent compared with 42 percent for Johnson. Among likely voters, Feingold had 48 percent while Johnson had 45 percent. The poll was conducted Aug. 25 through Sunday, sampling 803 registered Wisconsin voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points for registered voters, 5 percent for likely voters.
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