CRIME & SAFETY
40 charges filed against Jefferson Co. Cocker Spaniel dog breeder, dogs surrendered
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Forty misdemeanor charges were filed Friday against a dog breeder in Jefferson County for failing to provide proper shelter and ventilation to more than a dozen dogs. Patricia Rockstroh, owner of Penny Lane Cocker Spaniels, in the Town of Koshkonong, is accused of 20 counts of...
Janesville PD arrest man wanted for attempted homicide
JANESVILLE, Wis. (WMTV) - A 44-year-old man was arrested in Janesville for having an outstanding warrant through Jefferson County Sheriff’s Dept. for attempted first-degree intentional homicide and a felony probation warrant. According to the Janesville Police Department, the warrants were issued on April 22, 2024. Officers checked multiple addresses...
22-year-old faces charges in Beloit shooting
BELOIT, Wis. (WIFR) - Two police departments work together to arrest a suspect in a Beloit shooting that left one person hurt. Travion Hamilton, 22, is accused of attempted homicide, four counts of reckless endangering safety, felon in possession of a firearm and probation hold in connection with a shooting April 28 in the 700 block of Oak Street. The victim had non-life threatening injuries, according to investigators.
'She was friends with the people that most ignored.' Janesville woman's family remembers her love for music, pizza
JANESVILLE — Kiersten Hansen looked for the beauty inside of others rather than how they looked, her mother says. “She was just a really sweet person,” Kay Hansen told The Gazette this week. “She was friends with the people that most ignored, she did not deserve to go like this.” Hansen’s ex-boyfriend and the father of her 1-year-old son has been charged in her shooting death along Peace Trail in...
Investigation released into report of Janesville man shot and killed by police in March
JANESVILLE, Wis. -- New information has been released into the investigation of the armed person who died after being shot by a Janesville Police officer on March 1.
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