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Driver Who Ran Down 4 Girl Scouts Was Huffing Fumes Before Crash

By HardBoiledNews Staff

Colten Treu told cops he was huffing fumes before plowing through a Girl Scout troop

LAKE HALLIE, Wisconsin — A motorist who plowed through a Girl Scout troop as they collected trash from the side of a road, killing four people, had been huffing chemical fumes before the accident, police said.

Colten Treu, 21, and a passenger in his black pickup truck told cops that “they had been intentionally inhaling chemical vapors” — a pastime known as “huffing” — just before the accident Saturday morning.

Investigators say Treu had crossed the middle line of the road in Lake Hallie, Wisconsin and driven through a ditch where the girls were working on the opposite side of the road, hitting five people.

Three young girl scouts, 9-year-old Jayna Kelley, Autum Helgeson and Haylee Hickle, both 10, plus Hickle’s mother, Sara Jo Schneider, 32, were killed. Another 10-year-old girl remains hospitalized in stable condition.

Treu and his pal fled the scene, but investigators were able to track him down by following a trail of vehicle fluid 1.8 miles to his home where they found his car. He had fled but turned himself in — along with his passenger — later that day.

Treu has been charged with four counts of homicide by negligent use of a motor vehicle, five counts of hit and run and four counts of homicide while intoxicated.

“This is a horrible reminder of our nations epidemic of self-indulging with substance abuse without regard of the consequences. Words cannot describe our Lake Hallie community’s sorrow for the witnesses, victims, and their families. This senseless crash was completely avoidable,” said Lake Hallie Police Chief Cal Smokowicz.

3 Girl Scouts, 1 Adult Killed in Hit-and-Run While Picking Up Trash

By HardBoiledNews Staff

Authorities at the scene of the hit-and-run crash that left 3 girl scouts, 1 adult dead

LAKE HALLIE, Wisconsin — Three girl scouts and an adult chaperone were tragically killed when a pickup truck lurched off the road and plowed into them as they collected trash from the side of a highway.

Police say the 21-year-old driver, Colton Treu, fled the scene but later turned himself in. He is expected to be charged with four counts of homicide through the negligent use of a vehicle, cops said.

The accident occurred Saturday morning along a county road in Lake Hallie, Wisconsin, where the girls — all fourth graders who attended Halmstad Elementary School in Chippewa Falls — were collecting trash as part of a volunteer cleanup program.

Cops say Treu inexplicably veered off the road into a ditch where the girls were working, striking several children and a woman who was accompanying them. Two girls and the chaperone died at the scene. Two others were airlifted to a hospital, where one of them died.

Police said there was no blind spot in the area and it was unclear why Treu left the road. Investigators were looking at whether he had been distracted by something at the time.

 

Upskirt Bandit Turns Self In After Shoe Camera Explodes on Foot

By HardBoiledNews Staff

The creep’s upskirt plans were ruined

MADISON, Wisconsin — This plan really blew up on this guy.

A 32-year-old Wisconsin man walked into a police station in Madison and offered to turn himself in after a shoe camera he attempted to use to shoot upskirt videos blew up and injured his foot.

Cops say the man admitted to buying the camera to surreptitiously shoot up women’s skirts.

But the camera’s battery exploded before he was able to use it, injuring his foot.

The man received treatment for minor burns to his foot and later admitted his guilt to a clergyman, who advised him to turn himself in.

The man contacted authorities Tuesday afternoon, but because no illicit video had actually been shot, he was simply given a stern lecture and then released. Cops are, however, continuing to investigate.

In 2015, Wisconsin passed a law making it illegal for anyone to use a device to view or record under someone’s clothing without their consent.

 

Sisters Busted After Getting in Knife Fight in Front of Kids

By HardBoiledNews Staff

The Tate sisters were going to let a little thing like family get in the way

MADISON, Wisconsin — This is taking sibling rivalry to a whole new level.

A pair of sisters in Wisconsin were arrested after stabbing each other while engaged in “mutual combat” in front of five little kids, police said.

Madison police say the fight erupted between Abria Tate, 24, and her 23-year-old sister Alyssa Tate, “after a heated family argument regarding child care.”

When cops arrived at the home where the fight erupted they found “two uncooperative adult female sisters with stab wounds to their arms.”

Cops say there were five small children in the house at the time that witnessed the stabbing.

Alyssa was allegedly armed with a knife, a scissors and pepper spray. A man who was in the home at the time was arrested after cops found a gun in his bag. He was initially accused of instigating the fight.

Both women were treated and  released with non-life threatening injuries. They were both charged with domestic reckless endangering safety, and children’s protective services are trying to figure out what to do with the children.

In Some Cases, Man Really Does Bite Dog

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Leland O’Malley flipped the script, taking a bite out of a police dog that took him down for resisting arrest

DOVER, Wisconsin — It’s a story of man bites dog.

Officers had to sic a police dog on an intoxicated man who charged at them, but had the tables turned when he bit the dog.

The Racine County Sheriff’s office says deputies were called to a house in Dover after 44-year-old Leland O’Malley refused to leave and began banging on windows demanding to be let back in so he could sleep.

When the officers arrived they found O’Malley outside an yelling. They say they told him to stay put but he began advancing towards them and not following directions.

When O’Malley got too close, police dog Murphy, leapt into action, knocking him to the ground. But that’s when O’Malley placed the dog into a chokehold and tried to bite him.

Officers then jumped in and subdued O’Malley and the freeing the dog, who was not hurt.

O’Malley was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and attacking a police dog.

 

Cops Search for Serial Toilet Clogger in Wisconsin

By HardBoiledNews Staff

 

Authorities say the bandit has struck the same toilet dozens of times

SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin  — Cops are on a desperate hunt to stop a serial toilet bandit who keeps clogging a public restroom john, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage.

The sick prankster has hit the same toilet in the women’s bathroom at the Deland Community Center numerous times over the past 18 months, the Sheboygan, Wisconsin police say. Whoever is responsible has repeatedly shoved a 20 ounce soda into the pipe, which has resulted in major, costly plumbing repairs.

“Why do this? I do not know, but if you help us find the person, I will tell you. This is very strange… and gross, but that is the reality of life,” the department wrote on its Facebook page.

The city has had to spend “thousands of dollars in repair and labor costs,” not to mention the inconvenience of having a public restroom out of service.

“We are currently looking to find the said person or persons to hold them accountable. Please help us to keep our parks clean and safe for our residents and visitors,” the department said.

Joe Kerlin, the city’s superintendent of Park and Forestry, said the toilet was clogged a dozen times in 2016 and, 14 last year and three this year, according to MySheboygan.com.

 

Pimp Turned in By High School Teacher Mom After Prostituting Her Student

By HardBoiledNews Staff

Pimp Sean Hayes hit a little too close to home in finding a new worker for his escort business

MILWAUKEE — A mother’s love only goes so far.

A Milwaukee pimp was busted after his mother, who is a high school teacher, turned him in for prostituting one of her students.

Sean Hayes, 50, is accused of approaching the 17-year-old girl who was living in a group home as she waited for the bus, telling her she could be a model and giving her a card for “Shining Stars Adult Entertainment,” cops said.

The following day, Hayes had sex with her and then got her into the sex trade. Between August and October of last year, he had the girl — who worked under the name “Honey” — travel to Waukesha, Wauwatosa, Green Bay and Chicago to have sex for money, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, citing the criminal complaint.

But then the girl told her teacher at James E. Groppi High School, who happened to be Hayes’ mother, that she was working for him as an escort. She then called the cops.

Hayes has denied the allegations. He says he was approached by a girl by the name Honey, but that he wouldn’t let her work for him because she wouldn’t show him identification.

Hayes is scheduled to go to trial June 18 on sex trafficking charges.

 

Man Freezes to Death While Hiding From Cops in Frigid Milwaukee

By HardBoiledNews Staff

Mark Henderson froze to death in subzero temps

MILWAUKEE — He met a stone-cold end.

A man who fled the scene after causing a four car collision was found frozen to death in some bushes where he had gone to hide in subzero weather, authorities said.

Mark Henderson, 36, was on parole for pleading guilty in a 2012 fatal hit-and-run, and ran a red light causing the four car crash in Milwaukee on Dec. 30. He fled before police arrived at the scene, WISN-TV reported.

He apparently hid two blocks away under some bushes in a narrow space between a fence and a shed. Temperatures dipped to -2 degrees that night.

He was found the next day by the property owner and his girlfriend who had gone looking for him after he didn’t return home with her car.

Barber From Hell Snips Customer’s Ear, Butchers Hairdo

By HardBoiledNews Staff

This is what a bad barber butcher job looks like

MADISON, Wisconsin — It was a case of assault and barbering.

A Wisconsin hair cutter has been charged with disorderly conduct after nipping the ear of a fidgety customer with scissors and then buzzing a reverse mohawk on the top of the man’s head with electric clippers.

Madison police say the 22-year-old customer went to the Ruby Salon to get an inch off the top and the sides of his head buzzed. But cops say barber Khaled Shabani, 46, began twisting the man’s ear after complaining he wasn’t sitting still, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.

Shabani is accused of then snipping the man’s ear with the scissors and then running the clippers down the middle of his head, “leaving him looking a bit like Larry from the ‘Three Stooges,’” police spokesman Joel DeSpain said.

The customer was forced to get his head shaved at a different barbershop.

“While it is not a crime to give someone a bad haircut, you will get arrested for intentionally snipping their ear with a scissors,” DeSpain said.

Man Busted Having Sex in Car Accuses Cop of ‘Cock Blocking’ Him

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Bailey Puttkemery (l) kept going at it with Emily Scott despite police orders to stop

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin — A randy couple were busted for lewd and lascivious behavior when a cop found them having sex in a car and they refused to stop when ordered to get out, with the man accusing the officer of “ cock blocking” him.

An officer came upon the offending couple early Monday morning when he heard moaning coming from a parked car and saw the windows were fogged and the vehicle was rocking back and forth, the La Crosse Tribune reported.

A woman living nearby had called cops saying the noise had woken her up.

When the officer knocked on the window, he found 21-year-old Bailey Puttkemery and 20-year-old Emily Scott, both of La Crosse, both nude and going at it in the backseat.

The officer ordered the pair to stop and then waited for them to dress. But when they didn’t emerge from the car after five minutes, the saw that they had gone back to having sex, police said.

When the officer opened the door he says Puttkemery tried to pull it shut before accusing the cop of “cock blocking” him.

“You’re a man. You should understand. It’s Oktoberfest weekend,” police quoted Puttkemery saying as he stood nude outside the car.

Both Puttkemery and Scott were charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, although the district attorney’s office later opted not to prosecute.