This week's regional crime roundup also includes sexual assaults of employees at the Waukesha County jail, a sentence for a man who tried to meet a child for sex and a man shot in the shoulder by a disgruntled customer.
A man charged with his 13th drunken driving offense, a Mount Pleasant couple accused of laundering drug money by purchasing a restaurant and other property, and a jail kitchen supervisor sexually harassing—and assaulting—the women who worked for him are some of the serious crime and police stories in southeastern Wisconsin reported by Patch this week. 13th drunken driving charge: A crash on Interstate 94 in Brookfield led to a 13th drunken driving charge for a 50-year-old West Allis man. The man had driven his car off the highway and struck a median barrier before a state trooper caught up to him. Restaurant owners indicted for money laundering: A Mount Pleasant couple was indicted in federal court on money laundering charges. The couple …
The former communications director for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod is headed to prison for following a boys cross country team while he was on probation for having child pornography.
Here are some of Patch's top crime- and police-related stories from throughout the Milwaukee area in the last week. Click on a link to see the all the details. Following boys earns prison for former WELS employee Joel W. Hochmuth was fired from his spot as communications director for Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), and earned a four-year prison term from a Waukesha County judge for following a boys cross country team on multiple occasions. Knife confiscated from 2nd-grader Some students said the second-grade student at Washington Elementary School in Wauwatosa, threatened them with the knife he brought to school several days this month. The schol said the knife was confiscated when staff became aware it was at school. Fatal …
After Patch wrote about a man suspected by Hudson police of molesting a 14-year-old girl, Racine police received a tip that he was in a local hotel and picked him up.
Here are some of Patch's top crime- and police-related stories from throughout the Milwaukee area in the last week. Click on a link to see the all the details. Hudson police put out information about James Eckhoff, a man they suspected molested a 14-year-old girl. When it came out that he had ties to Racine, nearby Patch sites publicized it. The publicity led to an anonymous tip that he was at a local hotel, and Ekhoff is now in custody. A Bayside lawyer who took $700,000 from his Milwaukee employer gets no prison time, but has to spend a year in jail. Police say the driver in a fatal Greenfield crash was high and texting when she struck a pedestrian. Following a high-speed chase, this teen was arrested after he crashed into two telephone…
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2:16 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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