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JUNEAU COUNTY AUTHORITIES AND WISCONSIN STATE PATROL ARE SEARCHING FOR A LONE GUNMAN WHO HELD UP THE B-P GAS STATION IN CAMP DOUGLAS AROUND 3-O’CLOCK MONDAY MORNING AND MADE OFF WITH AN UNDETERMINED AMOUNT OF CASH. ACCORDING TO THE JUNEAU COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT…THE MAN WAS ARMED WITH A DERRINGER-TYPE PISTOL. THEY SAY HE FLED THE SCENE ON FOOT. OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES HAVE REPORTEDLY ALSO JOINED IN THE MANHUNT.
WISCONSIN DELLS POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A HALF-DOZEN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CONNECTION WITH A RECENT RASH OF ATM THEFTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN WISCONSIN DELLS AND LAKE DELTON. THOSE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS DAKOTA GRIMSLED… BORIS MILLICEVIC…PATRICK HOLZEM….JOSHUA INGERSOL… AND JACOB SCHWARTZER…ALONG WITH A 16-YEAR OLD BOY. THE BURGLARIES OCCURRED AT THE TANGER OUTLET CENTER AND THE POPPY WATERMAN ICE ARENA IN LATE FEBRUARY. ONE OF THE SUSPECTS…DAKOTA GRIMSLED….IS THE SON OF LAKE DELTON POLICE SERGEANT GERALD GRIMSLED. THE INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED ATM BREAK-INS IN LAKE DELTON ARE BEING HANDLED BY THE WAUSHARA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT. POLICE RECOVERED 27-HUNDRED DOLLARS… THE AMOUNT REPORTED STOLEN FROM 4 ATM’S. ALL FOUR ATM’S…VALUED AT 4-THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH…WERE DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR.
44-YEAR OLD ANGELICA DAVIS OF WISCONSIN DELLS LEARNED THE HARD WAY THAT A JUDGE IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO ABIDE BY A PLEA AGREEMENT. LAST SUMMER….WHILE DRUNK…DAVIS STABBED ANOTHER WOMAN IN THE BACK AND CRITICALLY INJURED HER. COLUMBIA COUNTY D-A JANE KOHLWEY AND DAVIS’ LAWYER…RYAN McNAMARA OF BARABOO….. AGREED THAT 6-MONTHS IN JAIL…FOLLOWED BY 8-YEARS OF PROBATION WAS AN APPROPRIATE SENTENCE….BUT JUDGE DANIEL GEORGE DISAGREED AND REJECTED THE PLEA DEAL. INSTEAD…HE SENTENCED DAVIS TO 2 ½ YEARS IN PRISON…FOLLOWED BY 4 ½ YEARS OF PROBATION. HE ALSO ORDERED HER TO PAY NEARLY 17-THOUSAND DOLLARS IN RESTITUTION AND TO GET ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT AS WELL AS ANGER MANAGEMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING.
BETWEEN 1990 AND 1995…49-YEAR OLD DANIEL KLINK OF PORTAGE ALLEGEDLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED A YOUNG GIRL….STARTING WHEN SHE WAS 7. THE ALLEGED ABUSE CONTINUED UNTIL SHE WAS 12. THEN….KLINK ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTED HER AGAIN IN 2000. HE’S ALSO ACCUSED OF HAVING SEX A NUMBER OF TIMES WITH A 14-YEAR OLD GIRL IN THE SUMMER OF 2008. ALSO IN 2008…KLINK ALLEGEDLY HAD SEX WITH A WOMAN WHO WAS DRUNK AT THE TIME. IN FEBRUARY…DUE TO A TECHNICALITY…. SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD CHARGES AGAINST KLINK WERE DISMISSED…AND PROSECUTORS EXPANDED THEIR INVESTIGATION. AS A RESULT….NEW CHARGES WERE FILED AND NOW.. KLINK COULD BE LOOKING AT UP TO 115 YEARS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED. HE’S BEING HELD IN THE COLUMBIA COUNTY JAIL ON 3- THOUSAND DOLLARS CASH BAIL. HE’LL BE BACK IN COURT FOR A PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE MARCH 31ST.
AN ESTIMATED 2-THOUSAND CONSERVATIVES ATTENDED THIS WEEKEND’S “DEFENDING THE AMERICAN DREAM” SUMMIT AT CHULA VISTA RESORT IN WISCONSIN DELLS. THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER WAS MICHAEL REAGAN…..SON OF FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN…WHO TOLD THE GATHERING THAT CONSERVATIVES NEED TO STOP THINKING OF ELECTION VICTORIES AS END GOALS…AND START THINKING OF THEM AS THE BEGINNING OF A CONTINUING BATTLE FOR THEIR VALUES. HE ADDED THAT A CONSERVATIVE VICTORY IN THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS DEPENDS ON 3 PRINCIPALS ADVOCATED BY HIS DAD. AVOID SINGLE ISSUE POLITICS. BUILD THE PARTY. AND BUILD COALITIONS. SATURDAY’S EVENT HAS BEEN CALLED THE CONSERVATIVE’S VERSION OF THE LIBERAL’S FIGHTING BOB FEST WHICH IS HELD EVERY YEAR IN BARABOO.
03.15.10
THE DANE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON THAT DETECTIVES HAVE DETERMINED THAT INATTENTIVE DRIVING WAS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN TUESDAY NIGHT’S CAR VERSUS SEMI CRASH ON HIGHWAY 51 IN THE TOWN OF BURKE THAT KILLED 51-YEAR OLD KATHY ENDSLEY OF BARABOO…A FORMER DE FOREST RESIDENT. DANE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN ELISE SCHAFFER SAYS ENDSLEY WAS TEXT-MESSAGING AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH. NEVERTHELESS…THE INVESTIGATION REMAINS OPEN PENDING TOXICOLOGY REPORTS FROM THE STATE CRIME LAB. THE SEMI DRIVER….A 66-YEAR OLD NEW RICHMOND MAN… WAS NOT INJURED.
SAUK COUNTY JUDGE GUY REYNOLDS HAS RULED THAT 13-YEAR OLD MICHAEL CRISAFULLI….ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS FATHER…55-YEAR OLD NICK CRISAFULLI IN THEIR RURAL TOWN OF DELTON HOME IN JANUARY….IS NOT COMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL. THE JUDGE BASED HIS DECISION ON A COMPETENCY EXAM WHICH CONCLUDED THAT ASPECTS OF THE TEEN’S AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO UNDERSTAND THE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. CRISAFULLY WILL BE PLACED IN A MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME. AFTER A YEAR…HIS COMPETENCY MAY BE EVALUATED AGAIN.
MAUSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TOM RYSENOWER HAS BEEN PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE PENDING AN INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED MISCONDUCT. THE INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING BUT RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT CONNECTS THE MISCONDUCT TO STUDENTS. RYSENOWER HAS BEEN AN ADMINISTRATOR WITH THE MAUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT SINCE 2001.
IN 2007 25-YEAR OLD PHILLIP SANDERS OF RANDOLPH THREATENED TO BEAT UP A WOMAN AND IN 2008… HE ACTUALLY DID IT. NOW HE’LL HAVE SOME TIME BEHIND BARS TO THINK ABOUT IT. COLUMBIA COUNTY JUDGE ALAN WHITE IMPOSED…..BUT STAYED….AN 8-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE AND INSTEAD OPTED TO SEND SANDERS TO JAIL FOR A YEAR-AND-A-HALF….FOLLOWED BY 3-YEARS OF PROBATION WITH THE CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT IF GETS INTO ANY TROUBLE DURING THAT TIME HE’LL BE SENT TO PRISON. SANDERS HAS A LENGTHY CRIMINAL HISTORY AND STILL FACES A NUMBER OF CHARGES IN COLUMBIA AND GREEN LAKE COUNTIES.
LAST YEAR…GENERAL MOTORS ANNOUNCED THAT MORE THAN A THOUSAND GM DEALERS WOULD LOSE THEIR FRANCHISES. ONE OF THEM WAS JOHNSON SALES IN ARLINGTON. THEN…LAST WEEK….GM ANNOUNCED THAT ABOUT 6-HUNDRED OF THOSE DEALERSHIPS WOULD BE ALLOWED TO KEEP THEIR FRANCHISES AFTER ALL AND THAT GM WOULD CONTACT THEM BY MONDAY. MONDAY HAS PASSED AND OWNER GREGG JOHNSON SAYS HE HASN’T HEARD FROM GM. HE’S NOT GIVING UP, HOWEVER, JOHNSON WILL NOW TRY TO KEEP HIS FRANCHISE THROUGH THE ARBITRATION PROCESS THAT’S BEEN OFFERED TO DEALERS THROUGH THE END OF JULY.
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