News 09.13.16
13 September 2016 News
The last person sought in connection with a strong-armed robbery in Oshkosh is arrested. Police arrested 22-year-old Lee B. Hopfensperger late Sunday night, one day after the incident. 23-year-old Abigail L. Schutzbank and 22-year-old William C. Marx had been arrested earlier in the day Sunday. Around 6:30 am Saturday, Oshkosh Police responded to a report of a man covered in blood walking on Bowen Street. He was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Investigation shows the three beat and robbed the 50-year-old man at his home in the 300 block of Bowen Street. No other information has been released regarding the incident.
-30-
A Chilton man convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl in Fond du Lac County is going to prison. Fond du Lac judge Richard Nuss sentenced 33 year old Christian Dassow to 10 years in prison and ten years of extended supervision. Dassow earlier pleaded no contest to five counts of exposing genitals to a child and one count of second degree sexual assault of a child. Five other counts were dismissed and read into the record. Police say Dassow sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl and exposed himself multiple times to the 10-year-old and two other girls, ages eight and nine.
-30-
A pilot is OK after his single-engine airplane veered off the runway of an airport in Dodge County. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says the privately owned, two-seat airplane had just landed at the Dodge County Airport before 5 p.m. Saturday when it went off the runway. The plane had landed for fuel while flying from Alabama to Manitowoc. The plane came to rest in the grass next to the runway and taxiway. The pilot was alone in the plane. He was checked out by medical personnel at the scene and was not treated or taken to a hospital. Authorities say the man, whose name was not released, had bought the Luscombe 8E from its previous owner on Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration has been contacted. The airport remained open.
-30-
A summit is set this week in northwestern Wisconsin on whether the state should resume control of the growing wolf population. Advocates who support a return of wolf hunting and trapping seasons will meet Thursday in Cumberland. Two Wisconsin Republican legislators organized the meeting. The summit will bring together people from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan who want their states to again regulate wolves. Great Lakes wolves went off the endangered species list in 2012. But in 2014 a federal judge put wolves in the western Great Lakes back on a list of federal endangered species. Animal protection groups contend wolves must remain protected. But Wisconsin state Sen. Tom Tiffany of Hazelhurst, one of the summit organizers, says wolves are “becoming increasingly more aggressive.”
-30-
According to online court records, an Outagamie County judge is assigned to hear the criminal case against Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt. Records show Mitchell J. Metropulos will step in to hear the case after Brown County Circuit Court Judge Timothy Hinkfuss recused himself. Mayor Schmitt’s initial court appearance in front of Metropulos is scheduled for Oct. 5, according to court records. Schmitt is charged with three misdemeanors related to a probe into violations of Wisconsin Campaign Finance Law. The mayor is accused of accepting individual campaign donations over the legal limit, and failing to accurately report those donations. Schmitt has claimed discrepancies in bookkeeping were unintentional. He filed revised reports and returned some money to donors.
-30-
Free trade is one of the central issues in Wisconsin’s Senate race between Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and Democrat Russ Feingold. Feingold is joining with Republican Donald Trump, a bipartisan group of office holders and the traditionally solid Democratic base of union workers by loudly voicing his displeasure for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Johnson won’t say whether he’s for or against TPP, even though he joined with many other senators in giving Obama authority to fast-track negotiations. Feingold has been touting his opposition to the proposal to union members and others across the state, while calling on Johnson to make his position known. Johnson says Feingold made a rash decision to support TPP without gathering all the facts.
-30-
Share |