Category: Crime and safety

Investigators reached the conclusion that student behavior was a root cause of the collapse.

The main cause of a 2023 Labor Day pier collapse on the UW-Madison campus was there being too many people on the dock whose behavior was not conducive to the structure, a report released on Thursday revealed.

To help drivers avoid mechanical violation citations, the UW-Madison Police Department announced Monday a voucher program for a free repair. It is part of a larger partnership with “Lights On!,” and is the first such partnership in Wisconsin.

Spokesperson Cynthia Schuster said firefighters responded to an apartment near the 500 block of Eagle Heights Drive to investigate a carbon monoxide alarm sounding around 9:37 a.m. Firefighters entered the building and found elevated levels on the first and second floor and began ventilating the building with a fan. Residents were evacuated.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD) launched a one-button alert system. The new tool aims to accelerate critical emergency notifications during a deadly, active threat.

“It doesn’t replace our WiscAlerts whatsoever,” Executive Director of Communications for UW-Madison Police, Marc Lovicott, said. “This is like the panic button.”

“When we first explored a one-button solution, the technology was brand new,” said UWPD Interim Chief of Police Brent Plisch.”Now that it has proven success elsewhere we’re comfortable adding it to our wide range of tools to keep the UW-Madison campus safe.”

Beginning fall of 2024, UWPD will be able to press a physical “panic button” that would trigger a WiscAlert emergency notification and alert all UW students and staff. The button will be solely used in the event of a potential deadly, active threat.

Starting this fall, the department will have the ability to activate a one-press “panic button.” The button is only to be used in the event of a deadly, active threat and will send out a WiscAlert emergency notification to all staff and students.

One-touch “panic button” technology for 911 dispatchers part of ongoing efforts to mitigate active threat situations.

The years that passed and the good things that Juan A. Salgado-Arroyo did during them could not outweigh the rape that he and a still-unidentified man committed in 2011 near the UW-Madison campus, a judge said Friday before sentencing him to 20 years in prison.

The incident was not reported to UWPD, per an email crime warning alert sent to students.

Students notified via email, sexual assault was not reported to UWPD.

Incident involving group of six males reported near intersection of Linden and Observatory.

University police are actively investigating the case.

During the assault, the victims say the other members of the group allegedly stood by and watched. The victims were able to escape.

Police said that, when the students stopped to speak with the men, two of the men punched them in the face and head. The other members of the group reportedly stood by and watched.

According to a news release, the two students walked by a group of six men at about 8:30 p.m. Three of them followed the students. The students stopped to interact with the men, and two of them “punched the victims in the face and head.”

42-year-old Aidison Yang was convicted for three counts of first degree sexual assault in 2005 with help from an FBI database.

Fake government officials have been scamming international students for money and personal information.

UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas told 27 News, Reategui had worked with teams in the past. “Once UW Athletics learned of the allegation, it suspended its relationship with him,” Lucas wrote. “UW Athletics has no information to suggest the allegation relates in any way to our student-athletes.”

“You are being violent. We were peacefully protesting, and you were being violent,” the protester said in a subsequent video.

In a statement to News 3 Now, UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas said the university responded to multiple attempted disruptions at the career fair. Lucas said one person was cited at around 4:30 p.m. after they tried to disrupt the event and stop students from meeting with recruiters. That person was later released.

An 80 line metro bus collided with a car on Observatory Drive around 1:50 p.m. Monday.

Appointment follows resignation of Kristen Roman.

Brent Plisch, who has been with UWPD since 2005, was appointed as interim chief. He previously served as a U.S. Army captain and was a platoon leader, assistant operations officer and battalion staff officer. He was stationed at Fort Carson, Colo. and completed a tour in Iraq.

UW-Madison Spokesperson Kelly Tyrrell told 27 News Roman resigned amid an investigation into alleged violations of university employment policy and work rules.

Court records state an intoxicated Joehnk was at Monday’s Bar in downtown Madison Halloween 2022 when he started touching a woman inappropriately against her will. Records also say he sexually touched one of her friends.

The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating a sexual assault which occurred early on Sunday morning.

Students notified via email, investigation ongoing.

UW leaders offer support to students, condemn antisemitism.

Eggs hurled at the UW Hillel Foundation on Tuesday night are expected to cost thousands of dollars to clean up, staff told the Madison Police Department.

At approximately 3:15 p.m., a car rolled over on University Avenue. The cause of the incident is unknown at this time.

La Follette High School mathematics teacher Jason Wu is charged with two felonies after his phone was allegedly found recording men changing at the Nicholas Recreation Center on the University of Wisconsin Campus.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man charged with a hate crime after authorities say he threw rocks at Jewish UW-Madison students from a rooftop. The warrant took effect Tuesday for Ethan W. Hanson, 21, of Deerfield.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student’s research boat has been found in Michigan – six weeks after it went missing on the water.

Chelsea Volpano was collecting data offshore in Lake Michigan at Lion’s Den Nature Preserve on Oct. 30. It was a perfect day to collect information about coastal erosion until the small research vessel drifted away.

Nearly 35 years ago, officers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department decided to saddle up to help keep crime at bay. Maybe you’ve spotted the two new recruits on campus or along State St.

The unnamed student group was meeting in the Humanities Building when the perpetrators, who are not affiliated with the university, went inside multiple rooms and interrupted the meeting. The perpetrators then made a number of racist and threatening comments, including remarks with anti-Arab and anti-Asian sentiments, a Wednesday night news release from the university said.

“Hate and racism — in this incident, anti-Arab and anti-Asian sentiments — have no place on our campus,” Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor said in a statement.

UWPD says several people unaffiliated with the school walked into a number of rooms inside the building Tuesday and disrupted a student organization meeting with threatening comments, racial slurs, profane language and other offensive conduct.

Dean of Students Office offers support to students impacted.

UWPD said it has identified the two individuals involved. According to UWPD, the individuals are unaffiliated with the university and entered multiple rooms in the building.

“It was a life-changing event, emotionally, to witness,” said Greg Steinberger, who has served as the president and CEO of Hillel, the Jewish campus organization, for almost 25 years.