News 05.26.17
26 May 2017 News
An Arkansas man in Fond du Lac for a construction project faces multiple charges following an alcohol-related crash, but its what happened following the crash that really got him into trouble. In addition to OWI-third offense, Edward Hernandez is charged with resisting, criminal damage to property, carrying a concealed weapon, battery or threats to a witness, spitting on a public safety officer and armed with a firearm while intoxicated. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says Hernandez failed to negotiate a turn from County Road G onto Highway CCC and crashed into the ditch. A nearby resident heard the crash and went to see if he could help the driver. Waldschmidt says the driver then starting threatening him and his family. Waldschmidt says when a sheriff’s deputy arrived a few minutes later Hernandez was out of his vehicle and was running down the side of the road. Hernandez continued to resist even after he was handcuffed and placed in the squad car. Hernandez began kicking the passenger side door and plexiglass window protectors and banging his head against the cage that separates the front and back seats. A Fond du Lac paramedic crew arrived to administer a sedative, as the subject continued to resist. Hernandez was eventually sedated and transported to the hospital by ambulance. Deputies also found a loaded gun in his car. Waldschmidt says the next day Hernandez apologized from his jail cell.
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The Dodge County sheriff says a Juneau man may be alive today if he had been wearing a seatbelt. Twenty eight year old John Armentrout was killed last week when his car was broadsided by a semi truck at the intersection of state Highway 67 and Town Road MM. Armentrout was not wearing a safety belt and was ejected from his car and pronounced dead at the scene. Sheriff Dale Schmidt says if Armentrout had been buckled in he probably would have survived, as there was very little damage done to the driver’s side of the vehicle. A few days before the crash the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office, along with other area Sheriff Offices, announced it was participating in the Click it or Ticket seatbelt enforcement campaign.
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Sheriff’s officials in northwestern Wisconsin have identified the teens involved in a fatal plane crash. The Barron County Sheriff’s Department says 17-year-old Owen Knutson died when the single-engine plane he was piloting crashed into a river in a rural area near Chetek Wednesday evening. An 18-year-old passenger, Hunter Gillett, was seriously injured. Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School senior is hospitalized at Mayo in Rochester, Minnesota. Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said Thursday the plane wreckage was located in the Red Cedar River just south of Chetek. He says Knutson had taken off from a private air strip on his family’s property nearby. Fitzgerald says first responders had a difficult time locating the wreckage which was about a quarter mile from any roadway.
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A Republican state senator plans to vote against the state budget as it currently stands, complicating passage of the spending plan. A spokesman for Sen. Steve Nass says as the budget stands now, Nass would vote against it. Nass spokesman Mike Mikalsen says elimination of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed 5 percent University of Wisconsin tuition cut and other changes to higher education funding “doesn’t help him get to a yes.” Nass is a longtime critic of the UW System and has broken with Republicans in the past and voted against Walker budgets. Republicans have 20 seats in the Senate and need 17 votes to pass the budget. Republicans also control the Assembly by a wide 64-35 margin.
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