Jeremy Wand

A teenager accused of helping his brother set a fire last fall that killed three children and an unborn baby has pleaded guilty.

The state Department of Justice says 18-year-old Jeremy Wand could face life in prison, after the guilty plea was entered Wednesday in Lafayette County court on three counts of first degree intentional homicide, one count of attempted first degree intentional homicide, one count of arson, and one count of felony murder-unborn child. In exchange, a single count of attempted first degree intentional homicide was dismissed, but was read in to the record.

The charges stem from a September 2012 fire at his brother’s home in Argyle. Jeremy helped his brother, Armin Wand III, set the fire to help collect insurance money. The blaze killed Armin Wand’s three young sons. His pregnant wife, Sharon Wand, was able to rescue the couple’s daughter, but was badly burned in the process and lost the baby she was pregnant with at the time. She continues to recover.

Armin Wand pleaded guilty in February to similar charges and was later sentenced to three consecutive life sentences in prison without parole. Jeremy Wand will be sentenced on July 19th.

Brian Stowe

A Madison man accused of secretly recording himself sexually assaulting multiple drugged women is now facing federal charges.

Federal prosecutors say 28-year-old Brian Stowe was arrested Tuesday on charges of using a minor to produce child pornography. U.S. Magistrate Stephen Crocker ordered that Stowe remain in federal custody until a detention hearing can be held. According to the criminal complaint, Stowe recorded himself engaging in sexually explicit conduct with a sleeping minor in October of last year.

Stowe was charged in Dane County court Monday with 62 felony counts, after police say he secretly recorded the sexual assaults of at least eight women. Police say the victims had been drugged and many of them worked with Stowe at his former employer, Verona-based health care software company Epic. He had posted a $527,000 bond and was ordered to surrender his British passport before he was taken into federal custody.

Fond du Lac Police are looking for a man suspected of stealing a minivan from a retail store parking lot that had a nine-year-old boy inside at the time.

Police Captain Pat McKeough says the van was stolen around five on Monday afternoon, after the boy’s mother ran into a store and left the keys in the ignition and the car running. He says it does not appear the thief was aware the child was in the backseat, until a cell phone the boy was holding started to ring.

AUDIO: Capt. Pat McKeough (:13)

The thief dropped the boy off on the side of the road, and then the child used a cell phone to call his father. Police says the thief did not threaten the boy, but just stopped the van and told him to get out.

The van has not been recovered. The suspect is described as a Hispanic man in his early 20s, with short hair and tattoos on his right forearm and the back of his right hand. He was wearing a black t-shirt, long black shorts, and brown work boots.

Bob Nelson, KFIZ

Brian Stowe

At least seven women in the Madison area were victims of sexual assault, without even knowing it.

The suspect is a former co-worker of several of them, 28-year-old Brian Stowe of Madison. He’s been charged with 62 felonies in Dane County after police found a stash of videos and pictures of Stowe engaging in sexual contact with the women while they were passed out.

Prosecutors say the women were drugged at the time and had no idea what happened. At least six of the victims worked with Stowe at Epic, a health care software company in Verona. He was fired from his job there as a project manager last week, after the allegations surfaced.

Court Commissioner Todd Meuer has ordered Stowe to stay ways from women, other than family members and his girlfriend. In court Monday, Meuer said it “boggles my mind that there’s some individual who is still gonna be his girlfriend, but if she wants to be his girlfriend, that’s fine with me. I’m not going to prevent her from having contact with him.”

AUDIO: Court Commissioner Todd Meuer (:07)

Stowe’s bond was increased Monday to $527,000, after he managed to post the initial half million dollar bond to get out of jail last week. He was also required to surrender his British passport. If convicted, he faces up to 1,400 years in prison.

UDPATE: Stowe was also in federal court Tuesday on child pornography charges.

Robin Colbert, WIBA