Oconto County, WI

OCONTO - Faye was on a walk with a friend last summer when her phone rang. It was her son-in-law. He’d been in an accident. “He wasn’t hurt bad, and neither was the other person … but it was his fault (and) they had to take him to jail,” she recalled.

OCONTO COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) - A $2 million bond has been ordered for a man charged in an Oconto County killing. Manuel Antonio Herrera-Hernadez, 32, appeared before an Oconto County judge Wednesday for his initial appearance on a charge of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide. The court set bond at $2...

OCONTO, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A $2 million cash bond was set Wednesday for the suspect in a drug deal-related murder. Manuel Herrera-Hernandez made his initial appearance in Oconto County court for the Feb. 22 murder along Lade Beach Road in Little Suamico. Herrera-Hernandez returns to court July 15 on the first-degree intentional homicide charge, court records show.

An Oconto County judge has set the bond at two million dollars for an accused killer. Thirty-two-year-old Manuel Antonio Herrera-Hernandez made his initial court appearance Wednesday. Herrea-Hernandez is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the February shooting death of a man in Little Suamico. The victim’s name hasn’t been released.

Three men are in jail following two armed robberies in Oconto and Forest counties. Last Friday, police got a call about an armed robbery at home in Wabeno. The Forest County Sheriff’s Office said three men broke into the home. They were armed with a gun and knives. Police say...

CRANDON, Wis. (WBAY) - Three people, including two teenagers, are now in custody for two armed home invasion robberies in Forest and Oconto counties last week. The Forest County Sheriff’s Office says people were threatened in their homes in Wabeno and Mountain last Friday. The robberies happened 30 minutes apart. In each case, three people armed with knives and a gun forced their way into a home. In one robbery, the family dog was stabbed and a 12-year-old boy had a gun pointed at him as he was forced to lay down on the floor as the robbers took cash, jewelry and prescription pills. In the other robbery, another child had a gun pointed at them as several guns and other items were stolen.

TOWN OF MORGAN (WLUK) -- Northeast Wisconsin's record-breaking early season heat wave is fit for neither man nor beast. Sara shared video and photos of a bear taking a dip in a pond in the Oconto County town of Morgan Wednesday morning. "We had a bear in our backyard who...

OCONTO—A 32-year-old Green Bay man was charged Monday with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of a man whose body was found last winter in the town of Little Suamico. Manuel A. Herrera-Hernandez is being held on $150,000 cash bond in Brown County, where he also faces 14 drug charges.

A Green Bay man has admitted to police that he was the one who shot and killed a man in Oconto County earlier this year. The body of the 35-year-old victim was located in the parking area of Green Bay Shores State Wildlife Area on Lade Beach Road in Little Suamico on the morning of February 22nd. He has only been identified by his initials, which are MGP.

Prosecutors in Oconto are expected to file murder charges in what’s being called a drug-debt killing. The Oconto County Sheriff’s Office asked for the charges yesterday against 32-year-old Manuel Antonio Herrera-Hernandez. Investigators say Herrera-Hernandez shot and killed a man last February in the parking lot of the Green Bay Shores State Wildlife Area. The sheriff’s office says Herrera-Hernandez last month admitted that he killed the man over a drug debt. Investigators think the dead man was a drug dealer in the Green Bay area.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Law enforcement authorities say they’ve linked an Oconto County murder to a suspected member of a Mexican drug cartel who already faces more than a dozen drug and weapons charges in Brown County. Online court records show a charge of first-degree intentional homicide was filed Monday against Manuel Antonio Herrera-Hernandez.

OCONTO COUNTY (WLUK) -- Nearly seven miles of Highway 22 will be impacted for almost two months during an upcoming project. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says Highway 22 will be closed between highways 141 and 41 in the towns of Stiles and Oconto. The project starts June 15 and is expected to run through mid-August.