Another arrest has been made in connection to a massive THC vape cartridge ring in Kenosha. The Kenosha County sheriff says deputies arrested 22-year-old Jordan Lynam this week. He’s due in court Thursday. Lynam is the fifth person arrested in the investigation, though it’s not entirely clear what role he played in the operation.

Forty-three-year-old Courtney Huffhines and her sons, 23-year-old Jacob Huffhines and 20-year-old Tyler Huffhines, are accused of operating the business from a rented Bristol condo and the mother’s real estate office in Union Grove.

A jury in Madison has awarded 450-thousand dollars to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.  Leonard Pozner sued conspiracy theorist James Fetzer. He said Fetzer defamed him with four false statements about his son Noah’s death.

The statements appeared in a book Fetzer co-wrote and edited and in his blog. Fetzer is a retired University of Minnesota-Duluth professor who claims the attack on Sandy Hook never happened. He maintains it was staged by the Obama administration as part of an effort to tighten gun laws.

It took the jury four hours to reach its decision. Pozer was seeking a million dollars. Fetzer’s attorney said he’ll appeal the decision.

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Investigators say things hadn’t been going well for a Wisconsin couple who moved to Abilene Texas a few months ago. And now a young mother and her infant daughter are dead, allegedly at the hand’s of the baby’s father.

“The only thing that we can think is maybe they were having an argument, and it just went south,” Chief Deputy Rick Jowers with the Callahan County Sheriff’s Office told KTLX. Jowers said 34-year-old Cody Edmund Dixon has admitted to last weekend’s murders of 22-year-old Alia Rae Hutchison and 9-month-old daughter, Aria Ellen Dixon.

The couple were originally from Waupun. Family members have created a Facebook fund to bring the bodies of Alia and Aria back to Wisconsin. Dixon, who reportedly said God told him to kill Alia and Aria, is on suicide watch, his bond set at $1.8 million.

Neenah police are looking for a suspect in a fatal armed robbery.

Police say the suspect in their case entered the Short Branch Saloon early Monday morning, and shot and killed a customer during the robbery. The victim has only been named as a Neenah resident. 

Police Chief Aaron Olson says the suspect is a white man who was wearing a dark baseball hat, a face mask, and a dark colored sweatshirt.

Anyone with information should call police at 920-886-6000.

One year after her abduction, Jayme Closs is moving forward with her life. Family attorney Chris Gramstrup spoke at a press conference at the Barron County Sheriff’s Department.

“She continues to work very, very hard on her emotional well-being. She’s moving forward courageously with her life.” Gramstrup read a statement from Jayme, now 14-years-old, in which she said she’s feeling stronger every day.

Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald honored investigators on the case. “Thank you for continuing to put up with the danger that we live in every day, and our work and the hours that we put in. Jayme, thank-you for teaching us the true meaning of courage, resilience and hope.”

Jayme was abducted from her Barron home, and her parents murdered, one year ago. Jake Patterson is serving life in prison for the crimes.

A Shawano County woman has been found guilty of manufacturing and possessing THC after she was caught distributing pot-laced St. Patricks Day cookies.

Cathleen Krause pled no contest to one count each of manufacturing and delivering THC and second offense possession of THC as part of a deal reached on Thursday. In exchange, additional counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of amphetamines, LSD, or psilocybin were thrown out.

Krause was sentenced to 80 days in for each count to run concurrently, beginning October 11th. She was given Huber privileges and credit for three days already served.

Additionally, she will have to pay over $1,000 in fines and court costs plus submit a DNA sample.

The charges stem from an incident in the Town of Wescott where a resident says Krause gave them cookies baked with THC. When police caught up with Krause, they detected the odor of alcohol and pot on her breath.

A search of her home also turned up gummy candies laced with THC and a container of pills.

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One person is dead and two more were injured in a Thursday morning shooting at Pine Grove Cemetery in Wausau.

Wausau Police Chief Ben Bliven did confirm that one of the three victims was dead at the scene when officers arrived.

“Officers responded to the scene and found three shooting victims. One victim was dead on the scene and two others were transported to a local hospital for treatment. We’re not going to comment on the condition of those two individuals at this time. But they did get transported to the hospital.”

The suspect who shot the three victims did try to flee the scene shortly after officers arrived. But he was taken into custody this morning by the Wausau Police Department.

“Reports from callers indicated a possible suspect fleeing to the east of the cemetery. Officers and deputies arrived quickly and set up a perimeter. They were able to quickly locate the individual and took the suspect into custody without any further incident. The male suspect is a Schofield resident,” says Bliven.

The suspect was identified as a former employee of the Pine Grove Cemetery by Chief Bliven. “The victims were either employees of the Pine Grove Cemetary or were related to an employee.”

Everest Metro Police Chief Clay Schultz says the shooting may also be tied on a fire at an apartment in Schofield near where the suspect lived.

“We do believe that the fire in Schofield is suspicious. However, it is very early in the investigative stage and as you know the scene is still very fluid. We did get a report while on the scene that there was a gas leak at a nearby vacant building. Precautionary measures were taken and we did an evacuation for the safety of the public.”

The suspect is expected to make his initial appearance on Friday in Marathon County.

Bliven also adds that if anyone in the community has any information on the joint investigation they can contact either the Wausau Police Department, the Everest Metro Police Department, or Crimestoppers.

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The legal team for convicted killer Brendan Dassey is asking for his release from prison. Attorney Laura Nirider spoke with CBS This Morning in a segment which aired on Wednesday.

“He has spent almost half his life behind bars. We’re filing a petition for executive clemency with Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin.”

Nirider and others claim the then 16-year-old Dassey was coerced into confessing that he helped his uncle Steven Avery murder photographer Teresa Halbach in 2006.

“He required an aide to sit next to him in the classroom, to help him understand the teacher’s spoken sentences. Then shift him into the interrogation room, where he was barraged with 1,500 questions over three-and-a-half hours,” Nirider said. You don’t have to be a lawyer to understand how an interrogation like that would overwhelm someone like Brendan Dassey.”

He’s now 29 years old and has served more than 13 years in prison.

Madison will be looking for a new police chief after a surprise announcement by Mike Koval.

Chief Koval announced in his Sunday morning blog that he’d be stepping down from being the chief effective Monday morning and that it was an honor to serve Madison.

Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway thanked Koval for his years of service to the city and that her office will be working with the Police and Fire Commission to find a new chief. Until then, Assistant Chief Vic Wahl will lead the department.