A Janesville man, 43-year-old Michael M. Jackson, has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to three of 30 counts of possession of child pornography. Judge Barbara McCrory addressed Jackson in court on Wednesday

“The detective who was actually looking at your did a cursory review, found 485 images. Children ranging in the age of 5 to 15 years old. That’s just doing a cursory review before they could get an opportunity to look at it in depth.”

Jackson had also been charged with first degree sexual assault of a child.

McCrory sentenced Jackson to 10 years of prison plus nine years of extended supervision along with a lifetime on the sexual offender registry. The plea agreement spared the young victim from having to testify at trial.

“This is a recommendation that is negotiated with the full understanding of the family, the mother of the victim and the victim herself,” said Assistant Rock County District Attorney Rich Sullivan. “When being informed of the possibility of having this matter not go to trial, and that would mean that the daughter would not have to testify, the mother’s heartfelt statement was “oh thank you Jesus.”

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Schwartz (Photo: Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department)

Closing a “John Doe” homicide in Kenosha County. At a Wednesday press conference, Sheriff David said the case began when a survey crew found a man’s body in a shallow grave near I-94 in 1988

“Ultimately it went cold on us, until recent infomration and technology helped us to determine that this person was a Robert Lyle Schwartz.”

The new information allowed Kenosha County Medical Examiner Patty Hall to locate relatives

“They never filed a missing persons report on him. They figured with his lifestyle – he was a criminal – they figured that his lifestyle had caught up with him.” Those relative described Schwartz as a con artist with no ties to Kensoha County or Chicago, and had never filed a missing persons report.

Schwartz had served time in prison in California for fraud. Beth says a suspect in his murder was identified, but has since died.

A mugshot of James Begay from the Wausau Police Department

Wausau Police are looking for a missing sex offender. 

Police Captain Ben Graham says 30-year-old James Begay cut off his ankle monitor on Monday and fled from authorities.

This is not the first time he’s slipped away from police monitoring. He previously cut off an ankle monitor in 2010 and assaulted a woman in Wausau which lead to his latest conviction. He also cut off his monitor in 2016, and was tracked down a week later.

If you know where Begay is, contact the Wausau Police Department at (715) 261-7800 or Marathon County Crimestoppers at 1-877-409-8777 or marathoncountycrimestoppers.org.

A mugshot of Maurice Bell from the Wausau Police Department

Four Wausau area teens are under arrest for allegedly beating a fifth teen with a baseball bat.

Wausau police say the attack happened on July 1st. Two 15-year-olds, a 16-year-old and a 17-year old are all facing charges of assault with a dangerous weapon.

The 17 year-old has been named as Michael Hrobsky, while the others are all in the youth court system.

The unnamed victim remains in the hospital in critical condition.

This attack also has connections to a previous drive-by shooting in Wausau from July 3rd, where the suspects wanted in that shooting are said to have acted in retaliation for this attack.

Police have one person under arrest from that shooting and are looking for another suspect, 33-year-old Maurice Bell, who may have fled to Chicago.

Sheboygan Police want to find the person responsible for starting a fire on the Hmong Veterans Memorial over the 4th of July Holiday.

Lieutenant Bill Adams says the damage is already repaired, but they still want to know who did it. 

“Well any time somebody defaces any property, but especially something that has a lot of meaning to a community, it’s something that people care about. So we’re very interested to know who could have attempted to do damage to it, but fortunately it seems the damage is very minor.”

Adams says the damage appears to have been done with a lighter and fluid.

If you have any information, contact Sheboygan CrimeStoppers at 877-283-8436.

The man accused of causing the crash that killed Milwaukee Police Officer Kou Her pleaded not guilty to felony charges on Tuesday. During his appearance in Milwaukee County Court, Dante James waived his preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial.

Dante James is charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, and other charges. According to the criminal complaint, James had been fired for being drunk on the job hours before his vehicle collided with Her’s. Then, he “had some shots” at a cousin’s house before getting back behind the wheel early in the morning on June 18th. Investigators say he crashed into Her’s car as Her was driving home after the end of his shift.

Funeral services were held Monday for Her. He was one of two off-duty police officers killed in separate overnight incidents on June 17-18. Hours before the collision which killed Her, Racine Officer John Hetland was shot and killed when he intervened in an armed robbery. The suspect in Hetland’s death is 26-year-old Dalquavis Ward, is in custody.

The suspect taken into custody in connection with the fatal June 17th shooting of off-duty Racine Police Officer John Hetland has been identified as 26-year-old Dalquavis Ward. Since the shooting that killed the 49-year-old Hetland at Teezers Tavern in Racine, investigators have been combing the neighborhood looking for clues including surveillance footage, and interviewing witnesses.

Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaeling said crime lab data was key in leading them to Ward, who was arrested on Thursday in Milwaukee.

Law enforcement agencies and local businesses were offering nearly $80,000 in reward money for information leading to an arrest and conviction. It’s unclear if information from that tip line led to the arrest. Hetland was a 24-year veteran of the police force. His funeral was on Wednesday.

Outagamie County deputies are asking for help in finding a missing mother and daughter.

Deputies say 55-year-old Jill Rousseau and her daughter 21-year-old Jordan have not been seen or heard from since Sunday. Both live in the Town of Dale.

Their husband and father is cooperating with deputies and they do not believe his is involved in their disappearance.

The two may be driving a 2011 maroon and tan Ford Expedition King Ranch with Wisconsin license plate number 650-PPM.

If you have any information, contact police at (920) 832 5000.