Tag: Wisconsin
Teen thought it would be ‘funny’ to spike stepfather’s drinks with cow tranquilizers
A Wisconsin teenager reportedly admitted putting cow tranquilizers in his stepfather’s energy drinks because he thought it would be funny.
Tyler Rabenhorst-Malone, 17, was charged with placing foreign objects in edibles and second-degree recklessly endangering safety, KTRK-TV reported, citing court documents.
The Town of Lima teen admitted to the crime because he thought it would be funny but told authorities he never meant to harm his stepfather in any way, according to the station.
His stepfather first went to the hospital in January 2018 with a droopy face and slurred speech among other symptoms, officials said.
The man told doctors he believed the symptoms came from drinking energy drinks, stress and lack of sleeping, the station reported.
When the same thing happened again, the man reportedly started to keep an eye on what he was drinking. The teen’s mother also told officials a box of oxytocin mixed with rompun — an ingredient used in veterinary medicine for sedation — vanished from their barn in April 2018, KTRK-TV reported, citing a court complaint.
The stepfather started to suspect his stepson was up to something and then found used syringes he believed Rabenhorst-Malone was using to put the sedative in his drink, according to the complaint.
Officials said liquid recovered from the man’s drinks tested positive for Xylazine — a drug used for tranquilizing large cattle, according to the New York Daily News. The syringes also reportedly tested positive for the same drug.
The teen is due in court March 18.
Black grandson riding with white grandma gets mistaken for robbery suspect
A black man headed home from church with his white grandmother was taken into custody by police in Wisconsin after two witnesses falsely reported that he was robbing her.
Attorney Joy Bertrand believes the 18-year-old man who was detained for roughly six minutes by police in Wauwatosa on Sunday was harassed, and the lawyer has requested all documents pertaining to the traffic stop, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
“After we take a look at whatever basis they have for stopping and harassing this family, we will be able to comment further,” Bertrand told the newspaper.
Police officials said in a statement that an officer was flagged down by a black couple who indicated that a robbery was either in progress or had just taken place. The suspect was a black male in the back seat of a blue Lexus, the couple reported, according to police.
“The citizen pointed out the car to the officer,” the statement continued. “A traffic stop was conducted. A non-approach traffic stop was made, in which the officer called the back seat passenger (who was said to be the robbery suspect by the citizen) back to officers instead of the officers approaching the car.”
The 18-year-old man — identified by the newspaper as Akil Carter — was then detained “based on reasonable suspicion” for approximately six minutes as an investigation ensued. Carter and the other occupants of the vehicle were then allowed to leave. The person who reported the allegations to police, however, did not stay in the area as requested by officers and has yet to be located to get a formal statement, police said.
“Officers removed their handgun from their holsters based on the original information of a possible violent crime (robbery) in progress, but kept their weapons pointed in a safe direction during the stop. The officers acted professionally during the entire interaction.”
But Carter was actually inside the car with his grandmother and her friend. They were on their way home from church at the time, Bertrand told the newspaper.
Carter’s grandmother can be heard in squad-car footage released by the department surmising exactly what she thought the man who reported the purported robbery had been thinking.
“I’m sure he saw two old white ladies in a car with a black kid and made some assumptions,” Carter’s grandmother told the officer, who apologized on behalf of the man.
Carter, who was released without incident, declined to comment to the Journal Sentinel. Bertrand said Carter is currently keeping “all options” on the table, including filing a lawsuit against the department.
“It seems to me that the police officers’ suspicion that this car was involved in a crime dissipates when his grandmother said, ‘He’s with me,’ if they had a suspicion to begin with,” Bertrand told The Post.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/06/black-teen-riding-with-white-grandma-gets-mistaken-as-robbery-suspect/
Parents arrested after teen dies following religious fast
REEDSBURG, Wis. — Wisconsin prosecutors charged a father and mother Tuesday with child neglect for allegedly allowing their teenage son to starve to death and his brother to become severely emaciated during a religious fast.
Sauk County prosecutors charged Kehinde Omosebi, 49, and Titilayo Omosebi, 48, with child neglect causing death and child neglect causing great bodily harm. Both charges are felonies and carry a combined maximum sentence of 37 years in prison, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Sauk County Circuit Judge Wendy J.N. Klicko set bail at $5,000 for Kehinde Omosebi during his initial court appearance Tuesday. His attorney, listed in online court records as Leonie Dolch, didn’t immediately return a voicemail. Assistant District Attorney Linda Hoffman said Kehinde Omosebi told police he believes he has done nothing wrong, the State Journal reported.
Titilayo Omosebi is due to make her initial appearance Wednesday. Online court records didn’t list an attorney for her.
Kehinde Omosebi walked to the Reedsburg police station Sunday to report the death of his 15-year-old son, according to police Chief Timothy Becker. When police arrived at the family’s home they found the dead teen and an extremely emaciated 11-year-old boy. The mother was also found to be emaciated.
Becker said the father told police he was a minister affiliated with Cornerstone Reformation Ministries and that the family had started a religious fast on July 19. Investigators do not believe the father is a minister and made up the name of the ministry, Becker said.
“There’s no IRS number, no corporation,” he said.
No food was found in the house and police had to force their way into the home because doors were padlocked on the inside.
“The residence had no phone, no power, no food,” Becker told the State Journal. “There was a gym bag in the garage with some clothes in it. That was it, with the exception of a tambourine that was found.”
Hoffman, the assistant district attorney, said Kehinde Omosebi told police he was planning to move his family to Atlanta. He sold all the family’s belongings and hadn’t paid rent in several months, she said in court.
Dolch told the court that Kehinde Omosebi had worked at a Reedsburg foundry but has been unemployed since February.
The younger boy and his mother were brought to the hospital. The mother refused treatment, citing religious reasons, and was taken to the Sauk County Jail.
The 11-year-old is in protective custody at Children’s Hospital in Madison. Becker said the parents are eating while jailed in Baraboo. Reedsburg, a community of about 10,000, is located approximately 130 miles west of Milwaukee.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/04/parents-arrested-after-teen-dies-following-religious-fast/
Wisconsin Teen Pleads Guilty to Attempted Murder Charge After She and Friend Stab a Classmate 19 Times to Please ‘Slenderman’
A second Wisconsin teenager accused of stabbing a classmate to please the fictional Internet bogeyman Slenderman has accepted a plea deal, her attorney said Friday.
Morgan Geyser, 15, will appear in court Thursday, October 5, to plead guilty to a charge of attempted first-degree murder, attorney Donna Kuchler told CNN.However, the plea deal stipulates Geyser was not criminally responsible due to her mental health, Kuchler said. She will be committed to a mental hospital operated by the state Department of Health Services, Kuchler said.
CNN affiliate WTMJ reported that the deal calls for a maximum of 40 years in a mental institution. There’s no minimum sentence Prosecutors could not be reached for comment Friday.
Geyser and Annisa Weier were both 12 in May 2014 when they allegedly stabbed a 12-year-old schoolmate in a Waukesha park 19 times and left her to crawl to her own rescue. The victim has since recovered from her injuries.
CNN does not generally name minors who are charged with crimes, but it does make exceptions if the minors are charged as adults. Both Geyser and Weier were charged as adults.
Weier, 15, pleaded guilty in August to attempted second-degree homicide due to mental illness or defect in the stabbing as part of a plea agreement. Then, in September, a jury said Weier was mentally ill when the attack occurred.
Weier will spend at least three years at a mental hospital before she can petition for her release, her lawyer, Maura McMahon, said at Weier’s hearing. A judge could also order a commitment of up to 25 years, she said.
One of the girls encountered the name of Slenderman on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki, authorities said. One of the suspects allegedly told police that Slenderman is the site’s supposed leader, and to climb into his realm, a user must kill someone.
During the trial, a psychologist testified that Weier developed a condition called shared delusional disorder, in which she came to share Geyser’s delusion that Slenderman was real, CNN affiliate WISN reported.
Geyser was diagnosed with schizophrenia a few months after the assault, CNN affiliate WISN reported.
WOMAN CLAIMS FITBIT EXPLODED ON HER WRIST ” I got pieces of plastic burned into my arm”
Diana Mitchell had only owned her Fitbit Flex 2 for two weeks when the alleged incident occurred as she was reading a book. She said there was no indication that there was anything wrong with the device.
“The Fitbit itself is totally melted. The bracelet melted, and I got pieces of plastic burned into my arm,” she told WTMJ-TV.
Mitchell said her doctor had to pick pieces of plastic out of her wound. A local emergency care provider confirmed that Mitchell was treated the day after she said the explosion occurred.
The Fitbit does come with a warning, cautioning consumers that “the device contains electrical equipment that could cause injury if not handled properly.”
Fitbit officials have issued a statement saying that they are investigating the incident. They said they are not aware of any similar complaints.
Teen Suspect Dead After Shooting Outside High School Prom in Wisconsin; 2 Injured
A teenage accused of shooting two students outside a high school prom in Antigo, Wisconsin, has died, police said Sunday.
Police identified the suspect as 18-year-old Jakob Wagner. He used to attend Antigo High School, police Chief Eric Roller said.
The victims, who were shot as they left a building where they had been celebrating prom, suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, according to police.
A female victim was treated for a gunshot wound and released, while a male victim was undergoing surgery late Sunday morning.
About 11 p.m. Saturday, Wagner “arrived at the Antigo High School prom with a rifle and began shooting while outside the entrance of the building,” the police statement said.
Officers who were patrolling the parking lot heard the shots, and one of the officers opened fire on the gunman. Wagner was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died at 1:06 a.m. after doctors attempted lifesaving measures, the statement said.
Wagner is believed to be the lone shooter, police said, and investigators were executing a search warrant at his home Sunday.
“All the people within the prom were eventually escorted from the school and are safe,” Roller said.
Sonia Reed, whose son Matthew attended the prom, told WSAW that she was on campus earlier in the evening for the “grand march,” during which students and their dates form a procession and parents cheer them on before the prom king and queen are named.
She estimates that there were 100 to 120 students in attendance and describes the atmosphere as “festive.”
“I didn’t see anything suspicious. I didn’t feel any bad vibes. It seemed like it was going to be a normal prom,” she told the station.
She learned of the incident, she said, when she received a call from another mother who said police were at the school and had “somebody down” in front of the school offices. The person was wearing camouflage pants and a dark top, Reed said. Her son had already left the prom by that time, she said.
Reed, who moved to Antigo from Texas in 2004, said that although she wouldn’t be surprised to hear something like this had happened in a major city, she was stunned it unfolded in Antigo.
Everyone knows each other in the town of 8,000 about 85 miles northwest of Green Bay, she said. She described it as a farm town where many students happily participate in Drive Your Tractor to School Day.
“I have two other children that’s in the high school, and they don’t want to go back, period,” Reed said. “They’re just beyond freaking out here.”
via: http://ktla.com/2016/04/24/shooting-outside-high-school-prom-in-wisconsin-leaves-3-injured-1-in-custody/