The Beaver Dam Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding a suspect who hit a child with their vehicle before driving off. It happened around 6:30 p.m. Saturday near South Spring and East Davis streets. Witnesses reportedly told police that the suspect’s vehicle stopped for a short period of time but the driver never got out of the vehicle. It’s described as an old silver sedan from […]
A manhunt is continuing in Washington County for a convicted child sex offender who cut off his GPS monitoring bracelet just hours after being released from prison. 31-year-old Brandon Cortez King was released Tuesday and was reportedly planning on moving to a transitional housing area in Jackson. Instead, he cut off his bracelet in West Bend and hasn’t been seen since. King was convicted of Incest with a Child and […]
A Beaver Dam man who spit on a police officer and made threats towards him will spend the next four years in prison. 34-year-old Michael Nelson was also sentenced to seven years on supervision for the 2018 incident. Officers were called to a home where they found Nelson beating his fiancée. He was later convicted of Disorderly Conduct with a domestic abuse modifier for that incident. As he was being […]
A former Mayville police officer accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with an underage girl has waived his right to a preliminary hearing. 30-year-old Mark Forster was supposed to appear in Dodge County Court today, but has waived his Preliminary Hearing as the case against him moves forward. Forster is being charges with one misdemeanor and five felonies, including Child Enticement and Misconduct in Office. If convicted, he’s facing up […]
A Milwaukee teen is in custody after leading deputies with the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office on a high-speed chase. It started just after two this morning when deputies clocked a white SUV going 98 miles per hour on I-41 near County Highway B. The vehicle sped up to around 120 miles per hour, according to the sheriff’s office. The vehicle exited at Highway N and lost control, crashing […]
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to search for a child sex offender who cut off his GPS monitoring bracelet and went on the run just hours after being released from prison. 31-year-old Brandon Cortez King was released on Tuesday and set to live in a transitional housing area in the Village of Jackson. Instead, he cut off his bracelet in West Bend and hasn’t been seen since. King […]
A Silver Alert issued for a missing Waukesha County man has been expanded statewide due to the news that he may be hitchhiking. 72-year-old David Stenzel of Lisbon was last seen at his residence around 11:00 p.m. on Monday, August 5, 2019. He is believed to be on foot wearing a black t-shirt and black jogging pants. Stenzel has ties to the Wisconsin Rapids area in Wood County and may […]
The search for a missing 19-year-old Brookfield man who never resurfaced while swimming in Lake Michigan is expected to resume today. The teen has been identified as Aaron Q. Polnitz, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office. The search has turned into a recovery mission, meaning rescuers don’t think there is any hope of finding him alive. Polnitz was swimming with two other young adults when he didn’t come back […]
Two people are dead after a crash along I-41 in Washington County on Tuesday night. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says deputies arriving on scene just before 10:00 p.m. found a Ford Mustang that had crashed into a guardrail near Highway 60 and two bodies lying on the interstate. An initial investigation reportedly shows that the vehicle entered the median, crossed both lanes of traffic and slammed into the guardrail. […]