News 12.27.16
27 December 2016 News
The victim of a fatal crash in Dodge County is identified three months after the crash. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says the victim has been tentatively identified as 33 year old Mauricio Camacho-Flores of Mexico. The crash happened September 22nd on County Highway AY. A preliminary investigation indicates a pickup driven by Jonathon Murray of Mayville was southbound on AY when he collided with an SUV driven by Camacho-Flores. The SUV burst into flames and Camacho-Flores was pronounced dead at the scene. Murray sustained minor injuries in the crash.
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The second of three people charged in connection with the death of a 27 year old woman in Fox Lake is bound over for trial. Probable cause was found at a preliminary hearing in Dodge County Circuit Court for 36 year old Laverne Ware Jr. of Fox Lake. An arraignment hearing has been scheduled for February 15th. He’s charged with one count of hiding a corpse and is expected to face additional charges. Also charged in the case is Ware’s mother, 64 year old Marjorie Jones of Fox Lake; and Jones’ husband, 59 year old Vernon Mickey of Fox Lake. Jones and Mickey are each charged with one count of harboring/aiding a felon.Ware is accused of hiding the body of his dead girlfriend, 27 year old Sesalie Dixon. Ware allegedly hid the body in Jones’ garage inside a pickup truck. Jones and Mickey are accused of knowing Ware had hid the body in the garage. According to a criminal complaint, Mickey contacted Dodge County Central Communications to report a possible homicide at 100 We Go Trail. The complaint says Mickey reported there was a lot of blood in the garage, but he did not see a body, and that Ware’s girlfriend Dixon had been missing since the previous night. Investigators found Dixon’s body in a pickup truck in the garage. An autopsy report revealed Dixon’s death was consistent with homicide. Jones has an arraignment hearing scheduled for February 8th, while a preliminary hearing for Mickey is scheduled for January 19th.
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A dissenting opinion by a federal appeals court judge on police use of secret cellphone tracking technology has convinced a Milwaukee man to take his case a step further. Attorneys for Damian Patrick filed a petition this week asking for a rehearing in front of the full U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, following a split decision in November by the court’s three-judge panel. It’s the first time the use of cell tower simulators, known as stingrays, has reached a federal appellate court. A U.S. House committee report issued Monday said clearer guidelines are needed for law enforcement’s use of secretive and intrusive cellphone tracking technology, and police and federal agents should be upfront with a judge about their deployment.
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Some northern Wisconsin loggers are delaying timber harvests in the hopes the market will improve. Prices for timber products have dropped over the past eight months. Henry Schienebeck, executive director of the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association, says an oversupply of raw material on the market is leading some to consider their options. Forrest Gibeault, an analyst with forestry consulting firm Steigerwaldt Land Services in Tomahawk, says larger mills don’t have as much need for wood since they have full inventories. Delaying harvests has increased uncertainty for northern Wisconsin counties that aren’t paid for timber sale contracts until the wood is harvested. Some sawmill owners say they need the surplus of wood to help drive prices down on the material they buy from loggers.
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