News 05.11.16
11 May 2016 News
A Pennsylvania man accused of exposing himself to a Ripon girl on the internet pleads not guilty. Forty year old William J. Weaver entered the plea during his arraignment in Fond du lac County Circuit Court to multiple charges including child enticement, causing a child to view sexual activity, exposing genitals, and exposing a child to harmful material. Ripon police captain Bill Wallner says Weaver made contact with the 11-year-old Ripon area girl on Facebook. Wallner says the child’s parents contacted police after learning about their daughter’s online relationship with Weaver. Wallner says it’s a reminder for parents to know what their kids are doing Online. Weaver is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on $500,000 cash bond.
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Two convicted high risk sex offenders may soon be living at a rural home in Lomira. Last week, Dodge County Circuit Court Judges Brian Pfitzinger and Joseph Sciascia gave conditional approval to place sex offenders Jonathan Miller and Robert Larson Jr. at N462 Highway 67 in the Village of Lomira, pending a report from the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department .Earlier this year, Miller and Larson were ordered to be placed at a residence in the Town of Lowell, but the State Department of Health Services stated that after attempting to purchase the home, the vendor was unable to purchase it as it was no longer on the housing market. Miller and Larson were placed in a Town of Leroy residence last year and subsequently removed by the court after it was learned the residence was next door to a home where children lived. The court will hold a hearing on May 17th to give final approval for the Lomira location.
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A judge in Winnebago County rejects a request for a new attorney from a man accused of taking hostages at a Neenah motorcycle shop. Brian Flatoff wrote a letter to Judge John Jorgensen recently asking that his public defender be replaced because she didn’t seem to have time for his case and is encouraging him to take a plea agreement. Jorgensen has denied his request to assign a fourth attorney to his case. Flatoff faces a long list of felony charges for the incident last December at Eagle Nation Cycles. State prosecutors declined to issue any charges against two officers who fatally shot a hostage as he tried to flee. The officers believed hostage Michael Funk was a threat because they had come under fire moments earlier.
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Truck drivers who haul fuel will be able to work more hours each week to ensure the Green Bay area has an adequate supply of gas and diesel. Gov. Scott Walker has granted a request from the Wisconsin Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Store Association for an emergency declaration which waives certain state and federal regulations limiting the number of hours fuel haulers can drive each week. The declaration follows the temporary closing of the West Shore pipeline, which runs from Milwaukee to Green Bay. It has some Green Bay area association members concerned about potential gas or diesel shortages as the summer travel season begins. Contractors for West Shore are repairing sections of the regional fuel line, which has been shut down since March.
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Gov. Scott Walker says he’ll lead a trade mission to Mexico in June. Walker announced the trip during an international trade conference in Milwaukee Tuesday. Walker and others from Wisconsin will meet with business and agriculture leaders in Mexico from June 12 to 17 to talk about opportunities in new markers and establishing operations in the Badger State. Mexico is Wisconsin’s second largest export destination. Companies here sent nearly $3 billion in goods to the country last year. Walker’s office says exports to Mexico increased by 4.6 percent in 2015. Agriculture Secretary Ben Brancel will be among state administrators joining the governor, as well as representatives from Wisconsin businesses and the University of Wisconsin Madison and River Falls campuses.
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Wisconsin’s longtime chief elections official Kevin Kennedy is retiring before the board he currently heads is eliminated in July. Kennedy announced his intentions Tuesday to retire on June 29. That is the day before the Government Accountability Board which he heads is dissolved and reconstituted as two separate commissions. The 64-year-old Kennedy has worked for the state on elections for 37 years. He first served on the state Elections Board as an attorney and then executive director from 1982 to 2007. He then served as head of the GAB from 2007 until his retirement. Kennedy drew the ire of many Republican state lawmakers who voted to do away with the nonpartisan board and replace it with the new elections and ethics commissions consisting of partisan appointees.
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