News 11.02.16
2 November 2016 News
A jury trial is scheduled for a Wild Rose man accused of stealing thousands of dollars from Sadoff Iron and Metal in Fond du lac. A jury trial is set for November 9th for 52 year old Daniel Christianson on a charge of party to the crime of theft-false representation. According to a criminal complaint Christianson was a semi-truck driver for Fox Valley Metal and was involved in a scheme to fill scrap automobiles with extra weight and then selling the scrap to Sadoff Iron for a greater value defrauding Sadoffs. The owner of Sadoff told detectives his company was defrauded in excess of $100,000 According to the complaint Christianson would pay Sadoff employee Donald Krueger cash in exchange for Krueger accepting loads of scrap automobiles in excess of what they should have been. Krueger was convicted earlier this year of theft and placed on probation.
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A Fond du lac man is accused of running a prostitution ring. Twenty seven year old Beau Brown is charged with 22 counts including human trafficking, soliciting prostitutes, running a place of prostitution, sexual assault, strangulation/suffocation, battery and disorderly conduct. The charges carry a maximum life prison sentence. According to a criminal complaint, Brown repeatedly sexually assaulted, beat and strangled his girlfriend. He is also accused of posting ads on Craigslist for sex including naked pictures of the alleged victim and him. The alleged victim told police men would show up at their North Butler Street residence every other weekend, sometimes multiple times a day. She says Brown charged the men $250 to $400 a piece depending on how old the man was. The alleged victim said she participated because she was in fear and did not want to lose her son. Brown is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on $250,000 cash bond. A preliminary hearing will be held next week.
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Two Beaver Dam teenagers are facing charges after shooting a pellet gun at children that were trick-or-treating in Beaver Dam. At least three children were struck and wounded Sunday. At about 5:30 p.m., police received a report from a woman in the 300 block of North Lincoln Avenue that juveniles with a BB gun were shooting at children trick-or-treating. Another report from a father stated that his daughter was shot in the back with a pellet near North Lincoln Avenue and Jackson Street. Police responded and found three victims, ages 10, 12, and 14. They were taken to Beaver Dam Community Hospital for non-life threatening injuries. Police questioned two 15 year old boys and recovered an Airsoft gun. The suspects will be referred to Dodge County Human Services for charges of battery and disorderly conduct.
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State and local election officials say they want voters to know that those without a photo ID still have a right to cast a ballot — although it will be provisional until they present the newly-required identification. Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator Michael Haas and local officials held a news conference Monday at Milwaukee City Hall to remind voters that if they don’t have a photo ID they still have time to get a document to vote from the Division of Motor Vehicles. Beginning this week, the DMV will send the photo ID by overnight delivery. It’s the first presidential election in Wisconsin where voters will be required to show photo IDs at the polls. Haas says the photo ID doesn’t have to have a current address and the name doesn’t have to exactly match the name on the poll list.
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More than half a million voters have cast early absentee ballots in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Elections Commission reported Tuesday that more than 518,600 people have cast ballots with a week to go before Election Day. Of those, about 30 percent have come from the Democratic counties of Milwaukee and Dane. In the 2012 election, about 26 percent of all ballots cast came from those counties. About 16 percent of early votes have come from the conservative stronghold counties of Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee. Those suburban Milwaukee counties are imperative for Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson if they hope to carry the state. In 2012, about 12 percent of all ballots cast came from those counties.
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Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s campaign is pushing back against Democrat Russ Feingold’s claims that Johnson is too closely allied with corporate powers. Johnson campaign spokesman Brian Reisinger said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday that the race between Johnson and Feingold is closer than ever and Wisconsin residents are getting ready to “fire” Feingold. Feingold is trying to win back the Senate seat he lost to Johnson in 2010. Powerful conservative super PACS have started spending millions in the closing day of the race to support Johnson. Feingold told reporters earlier Tuesday that spending shows corporate interests are trying to rescue Johnson at the last minute.
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