News 01.24.18
24 January 2018 News
A Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s K9 officer was busy assisting other agencies over the weekend in making several drug-related arrests. Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says deputy Justin Weisbecker and his K9 partner Koda helped with a couple of drug busts on Saturday. The first traffic stop they made a marijuana arrest and a little later in the day Saturday the State Patrol asked for a K9 to assist on a traffic stop and the K9 located cocaine in the vehicle. Waldschmidt says on Sunday, K9 Koda was back to work assisting in a couple more drug stops including a heroin related call that the Calumet County Sheriff’s Office was working on and a call the Fond du lac Police Department was working on. Waldschmidt says Koda has been an extremely valuable member of the force a little less than a year on the job.
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Bail is set at $1 million cash each for two Fond du lac men charged in connection with the murder of a Fond du Lac man outside the Press Box tavern last fall. Judge Richard Nuss ordered the hefty cash bail when Devon Neuman and Jesse Schultz made their initial court appearances Monday on charges of party to the crime of first degree intentional homicide and party to the crime of robbery in the September 23 death of Logan Foster. A preliminary hearing for both is scheduled for February 1. Neuman and Schultz were identified after police released security camera photographs of two men walking in the area of where Foster’s body was discovered. They had actually been in jail on unrelated drug charges before the photos were made public. Investigators believe the men attempted to rob Foster, a physical altercation ensued and Foster was shot twice and killed.
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The state Department of Natural Resources is set to adopt new restrictions on large farms’ manure spreading in hopes of protecting eastern Wisconsin groundwater. The regulations have been in the works for two years largely in response to widespread drinking water contamination in Kewaunee County. The DNR’s initial version called for statewide restrictions but the dairy industry balked at the cost. The agency scaled the regulations back to 15 eastern counties with Silurian bedrock under their soil. Under the regulations, farms with less than 2 feet of soil over the bedrock would be prohibited from applying any manure. Farms with 2 feet to 20 feet of topsoil would have to abide by gallon limitations dependent on soil depth. The DNR’s board is set to vote on the regulations today.
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The state Senate is set to pass a bill that would allow 15-year-olds to work as lifeguards. Current Wisconsin regulations governing hazardous employment for minors prohibit 14- and 15-year-olds from working as lifeguards. The bill would require the state Department of Workforce Development to allow 15-year-olds to become lifeguards. The measure’s Republican authors, Sen. Luther Olsen of Ripon and Rep. Dale Kooyenga, say the bill would increase the number of potential lifeguards for aquatic facilities. The American Red Cross as well as the Association of Wisconsin Tourism Attractions and the Wisconsin Alliances of YMCAs all have registered in support. No groups have registered in opposition. The Assembly passed the bill in November. The Senate is scheduled to take it up this week. Passage would send the proposal to Gov. Scott Walker.
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