Wis. teen accused of breaking into home for snacks
Associated Press
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-snacksearch-charg,0,584286.story
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A Sheboygan teen has been charged with breaking into a neighbor's house to look for snack food.
Ronald M. Savela Jr. is 17 but is charged as an adult with felony attempted burglary. The Sheboygan Press says the charge carries a maximum prison sentence of 4 years.
Prosecutors say Savela broke into the same house last year through the same basement window, leading the owner to suspect him when the window was found broken again last week.
The criminal complaint quotes the teen as saying he smashed the window with a rock and removed the screen. He says he was looking for snack food but didn't find any.
His preliminary hearing is set for Dec. 2.
Online court records didn't list a defense attorney for Savela.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Mayor Bob Ryans wife's sister supposedly "Gives a good Hummer"
Youtube video
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Story, YouTube video: Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan accused of sexual harassment
By Kate McGinty • Gannett Wisconsin Media • September 24, 2009
SHEBOYGAN — City leaders are crossing their fingers that the uproar dies down quickly over an Internet video that shows a drunken Mayor Bob Ryan making sexually explicit comments about his sister-in-law.
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More than 6,500 people have already watched the YouTube video — posted on Tuesday evening by a user named “MrMeyerjoe” — of Ryan talking in a bar about his sister-in-law’s looks and sexual abilities.
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The video was the topic of talk radio programs across the state, and media from across eastern Wisconsin showed up Thursday for a news conference Ryan gave to apologize to the community.
Ryan also is facing a sexual harassment complaint from the city’s former human resources director, whom he fired in August.
“Over the past 48 hours, multiple events have put my reputation and my personal lifestyle in question,” Ryan said. “This situation has made it quite obvious to me that it is time to choose between my personal lifestyle and the job of running this city, and I choose the job.”
He said he plans to hire a medical professional “to guide me through my personal life to make sure that I’m heading in the right direction,” but he refused to say if that will be specifically related to alcohol use.
Asked if he has a drinking problem, Ryan said, “No, I do not.”
The few city and county leaders who would speak publicly on Thursday voiced support of Ryan, praising his work during five months as mayor. They hope, albeit with some uncertainty, that public attention will return to his political agenda.
Ald. Bill Wangemann, also a city historian who has been a public employee since 1963, called the video “character assassination.”
“I don’t give it much credibility. … We don’t know who took it, or where it was taken, or when it was taken,” Wangemann said.
That kind of video can be very damaging for a politician, though, said Bruce Browne, an English and communication arts professor at the University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan and adviser to the student newspaper.
“I think the truth of the matter is that this can carry a political sledgehammer, simply because this kind of media can easily go viral,” he said.
“If it’s on YouTube today, it may well be on Jon Stewart tomorrow, and it may well be all over the blogosphere after that. The speed with which these things go is so much accelerated that this can get out of hand.”
Ryan said the two-minute video was shot in July without his knowledge. Wisconsin statues require that only one person in a conversation know that exchange is being recorded.
He said he learned of the video Wednesday but has not seen it. In an interview on WHBL-AM radio, he said there are “probably” additional videos out there and urged anyone who has them to release them now and “get it over with.”
Post Crescent Story
Story, YouTube video: Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan accused of sexual harassment
By Kate McGinty • Gannett Wisconsin Media • September 24, 2009
SHEBOYGAN — City leaders are crossing their fingers that the uproar dies down quickly over an Internet video that shows a drunken Mayor Bob Ryan making sexually explicit comments about his sister-in-law.
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More than 6,500 people have already watched the YouTube video — posted on Tuesday evening by a user named “MrMeyerjoe” — of Ryan talking in a bar about his sister-in-law’s looks and sexual abilities.
Click here to sign up for news, weather and sports text alerts.
The video was the topic of talk radio programs across the state, and media from across eastern Wisconsin showed up Thursday for a news conference Ryan gave to apologize to the community.
Ryan also is facing a sexual harassment complaint from the city’s former human resources director, whom he fired in August.
“Over the past 48 hours, multiple events have put my reputation and my personal lifestyle in question,” Ryan said. “This situation has made it quite obvious to me that it is time to choose between my personal lifestyle and the job of running this city, and I choose the job.”
He said he plans to hire a medical professional “to guide me through my personal life to make sure that I’m heading in the right direction,” but he refused to say if that will be specifically related to alcohol use.
Asked if he has a drinking problem, Ryan said, “No, I do not.”
The few city and county leaders who would speak publicly on Thursday voiced support of Ryan, praising his work during five months as mayor. They hope, albeit with some uncertainty, that public attention will return to his political agenda.
Ald. Bill Wangemann, also a city historian who has been a public employee since 1963, called the video “character assassination.”
“I don’t give it much credibility. … We don’t know who took it, or where it was taken, or when it was taken,” Wangemann said.
That kind of video can be very damaging for a politician, though, said Bruce Browne, an English and communication arts professor at the University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan and adviser to the student newspaper.
“I think the truth of the matter is that this can carry a political sledgehammer, simply because this kind of media can easily go viral,” he said.
“If it’s on YouTube today, it may well be on Jon Stewart tomorrow, and it may well be all over the blogosphere after that. The speed with which these things go is so much accelerated that this can get out of hand.”
Ryan said the two-minute video was shot in July without his knowledge. Wisconsin statues require that only one person in a conversation know that exchange is being recorded.
He said he learned of the video Wednesday but has not seen it. In an interview on WHBL-AM radio, he said there are “probably” additional videos out there and urged anyone who has them to release them now and “get it over with.”
Monday, June 22, 2009
Sheboygan brothers' pot grow busted
Not really bizarre, but entertaining anyway...
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local_wluk_sheboygan_pot_bust_200906221259_rev1
Sheboygan brothers' pot grow busted
Updated: Monday, 22 Jun 2009, 1:01 PM CDT
Published : Monday, 22 Jun 2009, 1:01 PM CDT
SHEBOYGAN - Sheboygan police busted a marijuana grow operation after being called to an apartment to stop an alleged axe attack.
Police arrested two brothers, ages 38 and 41, as well as the 36-year-old girlfriend of the younger brother, after the incident on the 1600 block of St. Clair Ave. around 6 p.m. Sunday. The girlfriend ran to the police station to tell officers the 41-year-old had struck her boyfriend several times with the axe, which was in a sheath. When police arrived, they surrounded the apartment and called the 38-year-old out. He had a small cut on his leg with some dried blood on it. He denied that anyone else was in the apartment, but the older brother eventually came out.
Police then went into the apartment and found marijuana plants growing throughout. With a search warrant, police took 20 marijuana plants, several large bags of marijuana, a rifle, two shotguns, a pistol and four axes.
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local_wluk_sheboygan_pot_bust_200906221259_rev1
Sheboygan brothers' pot grow busted
Updated: Monday, 22 Jun 2009, 1:01 PM CDT
Published : Monday, 22 Jun 2009, 1:01 PM CDT
SHEBOYGAN - Sheboygan police busted a marijuana grow operation after being called to an apartment to stop an alleged axe attack.
Police arrested two brothers, ages 38 and 41, as well as the 36-year-old girlfriend of the younger brother, after the incident on the 1600 block of St. Clair Ave. around 6 p.m. Sunday. The girlfriend ran to the police station to tell officers the 41-year-old had struck her boyfriend several times with the axe, which was in a sheath. When police arrived, they surrounded the apartment and called the 38-year-old out. He had a small cut on his leg with some dried blood on it. He denied that anyone else was in the apartment, but the older brother eventually came out.
Police then went into the apartment and found marijuana plants growing throughout. With a search warrant, police took 20 marijuana plants, several large bags of marijuana, a rifle, two shotguns, a pistol and four axes.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Meat Wreck
Photo/Jeffrey Phelps
Meaty mess
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/41199767.html
Semi truck collision leaves 40,000 pounds of meat scattered on roadway
By Linda Spice of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Mar. 13, 2009 6:56 a.m.
A two-semi crash in Sheboygan County early Friday left both drivers injured and a mess of 40,000 pounds of meat products scattered across the roadway, sheriff's officials reported this morning.
Emergency crews transported both drivers to St. Nicholas Hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the crash, which was reported at 12:57 a.m. near I-43 southbound and County Highway AA in the Town of Holland.
The interstate was closed for several hours but re-opened just before 6:30 a.m.
Dewitt Road, where much of the boxes of meat spilled, will remain closed for an undetermined amount of time during cleanup, according to Sheboygan County sheriff's Lt. Chad Broeren.
Sheriff's deputies investigating the crash learned that that two semi tractor-trailers were both southbound on I-43 when the second semi hit the rear end of the lead semi.
After being struck, the first semi continued southbound and eventually pulled off of the roadway.
The second semi traveled after the initial collision into a guard rail, then a bridge face before rolling several times down the embankment. It came to rest under I-43 on Dewitt Road after spilling its entire load of meat products onto the roadway.
Sheriff's officials report that the semi and trailer sustained severe damage with the passenger compartment and motor separating from the chassis as it rolled.
Photo/Jeffrey Phelps
Meat Products are strewn around near Dewitt Road and I-43 in Sheboygan County Friday after two trucks collided closing the southbound freeway for a while overnight. The freeway is now open but the cleanup is still going on as fire personnel and others clean up the meat.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Police: Sheboygan man steals car from woman, gets stuck in snow
http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20090223/SHE0101/90223013/1062/SHE01
Police: Sheboygan man steals car from woman, gets stuck in snow
Sheboygan Press staff • February 23, 2009
Sheboygan Police captured a car thief early this morning with help from an unlikely ally — snow.
According to the release from the department, a 42-year-old Sheboygan man was arrested after he allegedly stole a car from a woman at around 2 a.m. in the area of South 10th Street and Broadway Avenue.
Police said the husband of the victim called police, saying his wife was picking him up at a friend’s house, and while she waiting for him in the vehicle with the engine running a man approached the car and got in. The suspect grabbed the victim, shook her and told her to get out of the car, police said.
Fearing for her safety, the woman got out of the car and ran to the house. Her husband was leaving at the same time, and saw the suspect driving away in the car.
While checking the area a short time later, Police Officer Brandon Kehoe found the suspect trying to break free from a snowdrift in the stolen car several blocks away and arrested the man. No one else was in the vehicle.
The suspect, who was not identified by police, faces charges of robbery and second-offense OWI. He also had an outstanding bench warrant.
The victim’s car was not damaged.
Police: Sheboygan man steals car from woman, gets stuck in snow
Sheboygan Press staff • February 23, 2009
Sheboygan Police captured a car thief early this morning with help from an unlikely ally — snow.
According to the release from the department, a 42-year-old Sheboygan man was arrested after he allegedly stole a car from a woman at around 2 a.m. in the area of South 10th Street and Broadway Avenue.
Police said the husband of the victim called police, saying his wife was picking him up at a friend’s house, and while she waiting for him in the vehicle with the engine running a man approached the car and got in. The suspect grabbed the victim, shook her and told her to get out of the car, police said.
Fearing for her safety, the woman got out of the car and ran to the house. Her husband was leaving at the same time, and saw the suspect driving away in the car.
While checking the area a short time later, Police Officer Brandon Kehoe found the suspect trying to break free from a snowdrift in the stolen car several blocks away and arrested the man. No one else was in the vehicle.
The suspect, who was not identified by police, faces charges of robbery and second-offense OWI. He also had an outstanding bench warrant.
The victim’s car was not damaged.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Bouncers face charges in beating of patron at Muskego bar
Okay, its not Sheboygan, but I feel its still just as bizarre and close to home. The last line is the part that makes it bizarre.
Bouncers face charges in beating of patron at Muskego bar
By Jacqui Seibel of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Feb. 20, 2009
Muskego - Two bouncers at Bushy's Pub & Grill are facing criminal charges accusing them of beating a patron until he was unconscious, police said.
Eric R. Hummer, 42, of Waukesha told police he needed staples to close a head wound and suffered a concussion, a broken rib and other bumps and bruises from two bouncers at the popular bar. He says he did nothing to provoke the assault, according to the police report.
The Jan. 17 incident sparked a flurry of posts to Craigslist, including one from a witness who said he didn't know any of the parties and was visiting Bushy's for the first time the night of the incident. After posting his account on the online site he reported what he witnessed to police. According to the police report, one of the bouncers responded to the Craigslist post by the witness, telling him that Hummer charged at the bouncers.
Police are recommending that the Waukesha County district attorney charge the bouncers, a 27-year-old Milwaukee man and a 32-year-old Hales Corners man, with felony battery, Capt. John LaTour said.
According to the police report:
Hummer and a friend were at Bushy's on Janesville Road about midnight Jan. 16. After finishing one beer, they each ordered a second and a male bartender threw a stack of napkins at them.
Hummer and his friend said they were confused by this because they didn't spill anything. Then the bartender told them they were causing trouble and had to leave, the police report says. The friend was trying to ask the bartender what was going on when Hummer was grabbed by the two bouncers and forced to the ground.
The bouncers held his arms, kicked Hummer in the side and struck him in the face. The bouncers then picked up Hummer, already bloody and bruised, pushed him toward the door and then outside and to the ground. As he fell, Hummer's head struck a jagged stone pillar.
Hummer's friend told police Hummer was unconscious and blood was pouring from his head as he lay outside.
Hummer reported the beating to police Jan. 19, the same day the man who had posted to Craigslist called police. The witness said he walked outside to see Hummer "out cold" and blood coming from his head.
The bartender told police he asked the bouncers to remove the men from the bar because Hummer refused to put a coaster under his beer, the report says.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/39887432.html
Bouncers face charges in beating of patron at Muskego bar
By Jacqui Seibel of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Feb. 20, 2009
Muskego - Two bouncers at Bushy's Pub & Grill are facing criminal charges accusing them of beating a patron until he was unconscious, police said.
Eric R. Hummer, 42, of Waukesha told police he needed staples to close a head wound and suffered a concussion, a broken rib and other bumps and bruises from two bouncers at the popular bar. He says he did nothing to provoke the assault, according to the police report.
The Jan. 17 incident sparked a flurry of posts to Craigslist, including one from a witness who said he didn't know any of the parties and was visiting Bushy's for the first time the night of the incident. After posting his account on the online site he reported what he witnessed to police. According to the police report, one of the bouncers responded to the Craigslist post by the witness, telling him that Hummer charged at the bouncers.
Police are recommending that the Waukesha County district attorney charge the bouncers, a 27-year-old Milwaukee man and a 32-year-old Hales Corners man, with felony battery, Capt. John LaTour said.
According to the police report:
Hummer and a friend were at Bushy's on Janesville Road about midnight Jan. 16. After finishing one beer, they each ordered a second and a male bartender threw a stack of napkins at them.
Hummer and his friend said they were confused by this because they didn't spill anything. Then the bartender told them they were causing trouble and had to leave, the police report says. The friend was trying to ask the bartender what was going on when Hummer was grabbed by the two bouncers and forced to the ground.
The bouncers held his arms, kicked Hummer in the side and struck him in the face. The bouncers then picked up Hummer, already bloody and bruised, pushed him toward the door and then outside and to the ground. As he fell, Hummer's head struck a jagged stone pillar.
Hummer's friend told police Hummer was unconscious and blood was pouring from his head as he lay outside.
Hummer reported the beating to police Jan. 19, the same day the man who had posted to Craigslist called police. The witness said he walked outside to see Hummer "out cold" and blood coming from his head.
The bartender told police he asked the bouncers to remove the men from the bar because Hummer refused to put a coaster under his beer, the report says.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/39887432.html
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