Police say it took detectives many hours pouring through surveillance camera video that led to the arrest of a suspect in an April sexual assault in downtown Madison.

Dorian L. Wade, 28, is expected to face a charge of second-degree sexual assault in the case.

In a news conference Thursday, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said that Wade is on a list of people in Dane County with significant criminal histories.

The victim, a 24-year-old UW student, flagged down a passerby to call police around 3:30 a.m. April 7, 2018. She told police she was walking in the area of E. Johnson Street and N. Blair Street when someone pushed her into the bushes. The man was dressed in dark clothing.

Wade who was arrested Thursday in an apartment in Madison.

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A fugitive is in custody after being found hiding in a Madison residence. Thirty-three-year-old Jeremy Waugh of Madison was found hiding in a space behind a false wall, inside a closet in the home of his friend Tracy Martinez.

Dane County deputies and the U.S. Marshals Service served a search warrant Wednesday. Waugh was arrested on domestic violence charges and a probation hold.

He struggled with deputies, resulting in an added charge of resisting. Martinez was also arrested and charged with harboring and aiding a felon. Her two children, ages 7 and 11, were home at the time.

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Robin Mendez has entered a not guilty plea to felony charges of first-degree murder in the 1982 death of his wife Barbara. The plea was entered in a Rhinelander court room Thursday morning.

Police believe Mendez struck his wife with some kind of blunt-force object at the Park City Credit Union where she worked, then manipulated their daughters to providing an alibi for him.

Online court records indicate Mendez will continue to be held on a quarter-million dollars bond. A status update in the case is set for June 20^th.

RELATED: Cold Case team helped Mendez investigation

Family members have long had their suspicions that Mendez was somehow behind the murder. His daughters reached out to investigators in Oneida County several years ago about bringing in cable television’s Cold Justice team to help build the case. Investigators began working in the area in January of this year to re-examine evidence, which led to Robin’s arrest in February.

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Officials with We Energies in Milwaukee say that the end of the heating moratorium is bringing out a fresh round of scammers.

One change this time around is that the scammers were targeting businesses rather than residents, according to spokeswoman Amy Jahns. “Some businesses were contacted by scammers, and we had over 90 reports of attempted scams. Luckily there were no losses.”

The scammers were using high pressure tactics to try and convince businesses that they were actually behind on their utility bills, and that if they didn’t make immediate payments that their power or gas would be disconnected.

“We do not threaten our customers in this way like these scammers do,” says Jahns. “So if you think the call is suspicious, we really recommend you hang up.”

If you do have concerns over your electric or gas bill, make sure you contact your utility on your own in order to ensure you’re getting the correct information.

A 73-year-old Portage man has been arrested on allegations that he trapped and killed pet cats, after an investigation by police and sheriff’s detectives.

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Department said Paul Greiner trapped the cats on his property in the city of Portage, and then dumped them on rural property belonging to Liz Masterson.

Detective Roger Brandner told 27 News that Greiner had some sort of beef with Masterson. “Because of those personal conflicts in the past, I think he was dumping them out there because of harassment.”

Greiner faces felony charges including mistreating animals and harassment. Since the story broke earlier this week, Detective Lieutenant Dan Garrigan said two people have come to the police department reporting that their cat went missing. “I don’t think I’ve had case like that before,” he said.

Masterson said on one occasion, she confronted Greiner as he dumped a cat’s body on her land, and drove off. “The investigators have done a tremendous job,” she said.

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Two Oshkosh police officers received minor injuries, after one was hit by a car and the other was trapped and dragged in the car. It began when officers stopped a woman on Thursday just after 3:30 p.m.

Investigators said the woman was uncooperative and tried to drive away. The officers were partially in the car when she drove off. One was able to free himself and was hit by the car as the 26-year old woman sped up.

She crashed into a home and porch and then ran off. She was quickly arrested and police could recommend several charges including recklessly endangering safety and kidnapping.

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Fond du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink says a Marinette County judge’s order placing a violent sex offender in Fond du Lac County beginning next Monday is out of line. “He’s off the rails on this he’s flying by the seat of the pants. Did not follow the old 980 nor did he follow the new law that Scott Walker signed on the 30th,” Fink told KFIZ.

Fink says statute requirements and a new law require placement of such offenders in the county they were convicted in, and 54-year-old Jeffrey Butler committed his crimes in Marinette County. It’s the sixth time in the last three years there has been a battle over placing an out-of-county sex offender at the residence in the Town of Eldorado.

Fink took a petition to Marinette County Tuesday asking that judge to reconsider his decision. He said the only option is to ask a Fond du Lac County judge for a temporary injunction halting the placement.

Green Bay Police say three people are in custody, and one is still being sought, after shots were reportedly fired Wednesday afternoon. Police Captain Kevin Warych said officers “did find evidence on the scene that a shooting did occur” near Green Bay West High School.

Officers responding to the area in the 900 block of Shawano Avenue attempted a traffic stop. Three three people got out and ran, while the driver remained with the vehicle. Two of the the people who ran, and the driver of the vehicle, were taken into custody.

Police said they recovered a handgun, but they are still searching for another gun involved. Four schools were placed on lockdown during the incident.

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MADISON, Wis. – Those scam calls that you’re likely getting on a weekly basis aren’t going away any time soon.

That’s because it it’s very cheap to set up one of those call centers, according to UW Madison information security expert Dave Schroeder.  “This is cheap for them. It costs virtually nothing for them to set up this operation. And if they even get a few people to call back and scam them out of a few hundred or thousand dollars or whatever they can get out of them, they’ve profited.”

New technology allows the scammers to buy American phone numbers in bulk. That lets them set up their operations anywhere in the world, and then make it seem like their phone numbers are coming from anywhere they want. “They will get multiple numbers in various parts of the country. And so you might get a call that looks like it’s from Washington DC, or looks like it’s from your own area code or even your own exchange,” says Schreoder.

He says it’s helpful to think about the scammer operations running like the old style boiler room stock scams of the 80’s and 90’s. “They’re playing on greed or playing on fear, and there’s a common theme that you have to act now and you’re going to miss out or you’re you’re going to be arrested or something bad is going to happen.”

Schroeder reminds people that the IRS or the FBI or any of the dozens of agencies that scammers try to misrepresent will never call you for money in this fashion. The best thing for you to do is simply hang up, and don’t return their voicemails.

A Beaver Dam man killed in an explosion last month had a bomb making lab and white supremacist literature in his apartment. Terrence Gebhardt with the Beaver Dam police department spoke with 27 News.

“We based everything that we did from day one, based on in the instability and volatility of that material,” Gebhardt said. Twenty-eight-year-old Brandon Morrow had jars of explosive material in his refrigerator.

Gebhardt said co-workers of Morrow described a smell like moth balls coming from him. Investigators don’t know whether that was from whatever Morrow was making, or an attempt to mask the odor.

Morrow’s motives and potential target are unclear. Gebhart said they haven’t been able to link Morrow to any white supremacist groups. “I’m not coming into any conclusions as to why he had that material.”