News 12.15.17
15 December 2017 News
A Fond du Lac man convicted of robbing a Fond du Lac business is going to prison. Fond du Lac judge Gary Sharpe sentenced David Haefner to four years in prison and four years extended supervision. Haefner earlier pleaded no contest to theft as a repeater. Charges of robbery, theft from a financial institution and bail jumping were dismissed and read into the record. The sentence will run consecutive to a two year prison sentence handed down for a charge of delivering illegal articles to an inmate. Police Chief Bill Lamb says Haefner robbed Heights Finance on Rickmeyer Drive. Lamb says a sheriff’s deputy later spotted the vehicle on West Johnson Street. The vehicle stopped and Haefner fled on foot. He was apprehended inside the Valvoline oil change store.
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A trial date is scheduled for a Fond du Lac man accused of providing drugs to boys and sexually assaulting them. The nearly month long trial is scheduled to begin July 9 next year for James Rasmussen on more than 60 charges including first degree sexual assault of a child, exposing genitals to a child, child enticement, soliciting a child for prostitution and delivery of marijuana. Rasmussen is being held in the Fond du lac County Jail on $100,000 cash bond..
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The overdose-reversing drug Narcan will be available for use by security officers on all University of Wisconsin campuses. Attorney General Brad Schimel joined with UW System President Ray Cross to make the announcement Wednesday. A partnership with the pharmaceutical company Adapt Pharma will make a nasal spray version of Narcan available for free at 10 UW campuses. Narcan is already available under existing partnerships at the other three campuses. Schimel says UW is the first in the country to have Narcan available to the entire university system. Cross says he’s aware of only two people in the past decade on UW campuses who have overdosed from heroin. But Cross says given that overdoses are spiking nationwide, it’s reasonable to expect they will go up on UW campuses as well.
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A utility company is asking state regulators to approve a $140 million project to supply electricity to the massive Foxconn manufacturing complex in southeastern Wisconsin. American Transmission Co. says the massive plant is expected to draw six times more power than the next-largest factory in the state. ATC wants to build a new substation east of the facility and connect it with high-voltage power lines. The company plans to file an application with the state Public Service Commission in February and seek a decision on the project by August. ATC says that if the project is approved, construction would begin late next year. ATC says the cost of the project would be spread among about 5 million residential electric customers over 40 years.
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