A 23-year-old River Falls man says he feared for his life when he shot an alleged drug dealer 16 times earlier this week. Roger Lee Voss the Third faces charges of second-degree murder and illegal possession of a firearm in Ramsey County District Court. Voss says he met 42-year-old Ruben Adrian Paramo at his St. Paul, Minnesota home to buy drugs. He told investigators Paramo tried to rob him at gunpoint and he managed to wrestle the weapon away. He took off on his motorcycle after the shooting. Officers say Voss had blood on his hands and a loaded gun in his pocket when he surrendered.
A Barron man has been arrested for OWI 6th offense on Sunday. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, t59yr old Jack Kurschinsky was traveling southbound on 18th Street west of Rice Lake Sunday afternoon, left the roadway and struck a tree. A subsequent investigation including field sobriety tests were conducted and led to the arrest of Kurschinsky.
A suspect accused of pulling a knife and threatened crew members on an Amtrak train is being held in the Monroe County Jail. Those crew members accused Timothy Thomas of trying to force his way into a secured part of the train. The train was stopped near Oakdale just before 7:00 p-m Saturday. Thomas got off and started to walk away, but the Wisconsin State Patrol took him into custody and arrested him. The incident is being investigated by Amtrak Police, the Canadian Pacific Police Service, and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. There were no reports of injuries.
A Rusk County woman who was convicted of embezzling more than $700,000 was sentenced Friday. A Federal Judge in Madison sentenced 66ry old Sandra Stiner to 5yrs in Federal Prison. Stiner had worked at the Rusk County Department of Health and Human Services for 42yrs and admitted in August that she had submitted fake invoices to the county and used the money on a gaming casino app, shoping and other bills.
Opposing groups collided during Saturday rallies at the Wisconsin State Capitol. No injuries or arrests were reported. Dozens of people headed for the Capitol grounds after the results of the 2020 election were announced. Biden supporters carried signs and were dancing in celebration of the Democrat’s victory. The final results will have to be certified to make it official. While the Biden supporters were on one side of the Capitol, an equally-large number of Trump supporters were on the other side. Many were chanting “stop the steal” and expressing their love for the president.
As President Elect Joe Biden gets set to transition into the White House, Senator Ron Johnson is thanking President Trump for his work. Hours after news networks called the Presidential election for Biden, Ron Johnson said in a statement that President Trump has tenaciously fought to make America better and that his election results in both Wisconsin and across the country made pollsters look ridiculous. He said that "in my book he will always be a winner and patriot that truly loves America".
The
deer took second billing to another kill a Minnesota hunter put the
bite on over the weekend. On social media, Cory Klocek posted
pictures of the ten-point buck he bagged, right alongside a
three-foot-long alligator he shot in the woods near East Bethel.
Klocek at first thought it was a prank. When he discovered it was
real he tracked the gator and confirmed with the game warden he was
allowed to shoot it. Klocek referred to it as "an odd Minnesota
opener."
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he wants a legislative committee to investigate conspiracy theories about elections fraud in Wisconsin. Speaker Vos said in a statement late on Friday that he's concerned about stories about 'mail-in ballot dumps' and an 'inefficiency of Milwaukee’s central counting of absentee ballots'. He wants the Assembly elections committee to investigate and possibly subpoena records. Vos also encouraged residents to volunteer for recounts. Democratic members of the campaign and elections committee called the effort, "a ridiculous attempt to cast doubt on the results of the November 2020 Presidential Election in Wisconsin, and we reject it outright. It is irresponsible, unnecessary, and unfounded."
The Wisconsin Elections Commission is clarifying some facts as the presidential election continues. Administrator Meghan Wolfe says that conspiracy theories about secret stashes of ballots are wrong, and that it’s just the simple process of counting a massive amount of absentee ballots. Wolfe said, "the law says the absentee ballots have to be received by 8 p-m on Election Day to be counted and counting can’t begin until the polls open at 7 a-m on Election Day.” She says her staff and the clerks across the state have followed the strict guidelines on elections in state law, and that every ballot has a paper trail from registration to voting to counting. She says lawyers and observers from both parties were on-site and involved during the entire process.
Emails sent by Wisconsin Republican campaign staff appear to urge Pennsylvania voters to mail in late ballots. Emails sent Wednesday afternoon by paid staffers for the Republican Party of Wisconsin were obtained by the Journal Sentinel. Those emails sought volunteers from Wisconsin to call voters in Pennsylvania, and urge them to mail any outstanding absentee ballots. A Friday postmark would clearly be too late, although some ballot envelopes in Pennsylvania were reportedly sent with prepaid postage, and thus would not have postmarks. All of this is legally questionable - and could be a solicitation to commit voter fraud. A Trump Wisconsin campaign spokesperson did not return requests for an interview on Thursday night.
The sentence is 35 years in prison for the man who shot Waseca Police Officer Arik Matson in the head. Tyler Janvosky was sentenced Friday after pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted murder of a peace officer in a deal with prosecutors. Matson gave a victim impact statement and said he would "still respond to that call if it were tomorrow.” Janovsky shot Matson in January when four Waseca officers were responding to a report of a suspicious person. He got 20 years for shooting Matson and 15 for firing at the other officers. Janvosky apologized in court and said he hopes Matson makes a full recovery.
Fitchburg’s city administrator is accused of getting into a fight inside a South Carolina restaurant last month. The incident happened in Myrtle Beach October 23rd. Patrick Shaun Marsh is charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct, and assault and battery. Witnesses say Marsh argued about wearing a face mask and cursed when he was told there would be a 35-to-40-minute wait for a table. He’s accused of punching a restaurant employee. Investigators say the incident was captured on video surveillance.
Minnesota Senate Republicans are again picking Paul Gazelka of Nisswa as their leader after apparently retaining a razor-thin majority in Tuesday's election. Gazelka's major task in the upcoming legislative session is to hammer out a state budget with a Democrat-controlled Minnesota House and Governor Tim Walz. The Minnesota House D-F-L re-elected state Representative Melissa Hortman speaker of the House-designate at their organizational caucus Thursday night. Hortman says her members are ready to continue their efforts to build a Minnesota that works better for everyone.
A Minnesota man will spend more than 17 years in federal prison for a violent robbery and assaulting a Sherburne County jailer. The U-S Attorney's Office says 25-year-old Hakeem Coles held the manager of Cowboy Jacks in downtown Minneapolis at gunpoint, tied the victim’s hands with a phone cord and punched her in the head for firing him the night before. Coles admitted to knocking the woman unconscious and stealing more than 24-thousand dollars from his former workplace. He fled the state and was later arrested in Louisiana. Prosecutors say Coles was taken to the Sherburne County jail where he attacked a corrections officer in January, causing a traumatic brain injury. His sentence includes paying 86-thousand dollars in restitution.
The Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office is accusing a DeForest man of concocting three different schemes to exploit an elderly relative. Forty-five-year-old Jason Thomas McDermott allegedly threatened to kill the victim and make it look like she committed suicide if she didn’t sell her share of a condominium to him for far less than it is worth. Investigators with the Medicaid Fraud Control and Elder Abuse Unit of the Wisconsin Department of Justice say he also signed her up for V-A benefits without her knowledge and used her identity to apply for credit cards, using them to pay for his personal expenditures.
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