Hometown Broadcasting News Thursday 2/4/21
4 February 2021 News
Dodge County Chase And Standoff Suspect Charged
Dodge County prosecutors have charged the 25-year-old Oshkosh man that rammed several squad cars during a chase and was the subject of an eight-hour standoff last weekend. Bond was set at $100,000 cash when Tyler Anderson made his initial court appearance Tuesday. Anderson is facing ten different charges including nine felonies for incidents connected with the chase and standoff last Saturday night and early Sunday morning. According to the criminal complaint Anderson did have a handgun during the standoff, but it didn’t have a firing pin it. Anderson will be back in court for a preliminary hearing next Thursday.
Dodge County Man Pleads To Reckless Homicide Charge
A 29-year-old Iron Ridge man suspected in the overdose death of a Waupun woman will be sentenced on May 6th. Tuesday Timothy Sedlmeier pleaded no contest in Dodge County court to an amended charge of second degree reckless homicide. Pre-sentence investigation was ordered. Nineteen-year-old Samantha Mattila died of an overdose on October 23rd of 2017. Sedlmeier told investigators he found her slumped over in a bathtub and believes she found heroin he had stashed in a drawer for himself. Toxicology tests confirmed that Mattila had died from the synthetic opioid Fentanyl.
Help Needed To Find Stolen Snowmobile And Trailer
The Waupaca County Sheriff’s Office is hoping the public can help in locating a snowmobile and snowmobile trailer that were stolen last month. The property owner believes the sled and trailer were taken between January 19th and January 21st. The snowmobile is a 2015 Skidoo, yellow and black in color. The trailer is a grey 2016 Triton. The trailer also has a red Yamaha sticker on the passenger side and yellow Skidoo sticker on the driver’s side. More information about the snowmobile and enclosed trailer and photos can be found at the Sheriff’s Facebook page. Anyone with information is asked to call 715-258-4466.
Shutting Down Virus Has To Be A Worldwide Effort
A member of the Ripon Community COVID-19 Task Force says in order to get the pandemic under control we are going to have to think a little more globally. Jeff Puhlmann-Becker says variants of the strain are making inroads into our country and we don’t know yet how effective vaccines will be against them. “I haven’t found a clear answer from anybody about exactly ones they are or aren’t effective against, but that’s a concern and the faster we can get people vaccinated the more we can tamp down on the virus and the variants of the virus.” He feels the only way to truly defeat the virus is to get everyone in the world vaccinated against it.
Halting Construction Of The Wall Will Hurt Efforts To Stop Illegal Immigrants
Congressman Glenn Grothman recently returned from a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border where he and other Republican congressmen visited the wall. He feels stopping construction of the wall will hurt the progress the U.S. and Mexico have made in stopping illegal immigrants from crossing the border. He says unfortunately hundreds of illegal immigrants died from heat and dehydration last year waiting to cross the border. “Last year was a very hot year at the border and something we don’t always think about, but the hotter it is there the more likely people are likely to dehydrate coming here. In the Tucson sector alone they found over a hundred bodies of people who had died of dehydration trying to come across there.” He says drug cartels also make money charging people who want to be smuggled across the border. He says the Biden Administration’s softer stance on undocumented immigrants has led to more border crossings. He notes there’s been a 15 percent increase in the number of people trying to illegally cross the border.
FDL COVID Testing Site Closed Because Of Snowstorm
Because of the snowstorm the COVID-19 community testing site at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds in Fond du Lac is closed today. The Wisconsin National Guard will resume weekly testing at the site next Thursday, February 11th from 11 am to 7 pm. The testing site will be open Thursdays from 11 am to 7 pm through March 4th. Those Thursdays are February 11, 18, 25th and March 4th. For more information on additional testing options, visit the Fond du Lac County COVID-19 webpage at the county’s website.
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