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Body Found in Freezer Leads to Arrest of Missing Oklahoma Woman’s Roommate

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Talina Galloway had been missing since April

WAGONER, Oklahoma — A woman has been charged with murdering her roommate who disappeared in Oklahoma last spring, after a freezer containing her remains was found hidden in the woods in Arkansas last week, authorities said

Investigators had been searching for Talina Galloway since April 17, when her roommate, Kore Bommeli, reported her missing from their Oklahoma home near Fort Gibson Lake, the Wagoner County Sheriff’s office said.

Police said they initially treated Bommeli as a witness but that she immediately began behaving suspiciously and as her story began to change, she became the top suspect in the case. She was eventually arrested for obstructing the investigation and destroying evidence.

The break in the investigation came last week when a woman walking in the woods near the Ouachita National Forest outside  Mena, Arkansas, spotted a freezer with its lid taped shut and a foul smell coming from it.

Investigators discovered dismembered human remains inside, Wagoner County Sheriff Chris Elliott said. 

The same woman had in June spotted a suspicious pickup truck pulling an enclosed trailer in the same area that had similarly had a bad odor with a foul-smelling liquid pooled on the floor of the trailer, police said. She reported it to police at the time and a deputy came to investigate but never connected with the witness, Elliot said.

But the person had taken down the vehicle’s license plate number and when police checked it, that discovered that it belonged to Galloway. 

After several days, the Arkansas State Medical Examiner’s office identified the remains as being Galloway and ruled the cause of death as homicide. 

Kore Bommeli

On Thursday, Wagoner County District Attorney Jack Thorp obtained an arrest warrant for Bommeli, who was out on bond and living in Wisconsin. 

She was arrested in Dane County, Wisconsin on Thursday where she will remain until she is brought to Oklahoma to face charges of first degree murder and desecration of a human corpse.

Sheriff Elliott stated that they are glad they are bringing closure to this case, but that it is still active and urged anyone with information to call the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office.

“Our hearts go out to the family of Talina Galloway,” Sheriff Elliott said. “They are certainly in our prayers.”

Sicko Son Kills Dad, Stepmom With Machete For Trying to Stop Sex Assault

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Jesus Medrano III

KENOSHA, Wisconsin — A deranged sicko has been charged with killing his father and stepmother with a machete after they tried to stop him sexually assaulting a young relative, police said,

Investigators in Wisconsin say Jesus Medrano III, 24, had brought the weapon into the bedroom where he planned his assault with the intention of using it if anyone tried to stop him.

“This is as violent, assaultive and tragic a set of crimes that one can commit against their own family members,” said Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley, according to the Kenosha News. 

Police called to the house encountered a horrific scene with “blood all over the floor and along the walls.” According to the criminal complaint, Jesus Medrano Jr., 49, was lying in front of the door with his arm nearly severed and a stab wound to his stomach. His wife, Latrice Meyers-Medrano, 36 was lying face-down on a mattress. The scene was soaked with blood.

Cops say Medrano III confessed to having sexual thoughts about one of his young relatives, and went into her bedroom that night planning to sexually assault her, bringing a sock to gag her and a machete he planned to use in case his father tried to stop him.

According to the complaint, when he woke the sleeping girl she struggled, waking up another sibling that shared the room and alerting Medrano Jr., who came to find out what was wrong.

Graveley said that as soon as Medrano III realized his father did not believe him when he said nothing was wrong, so he stabbed his father in the stomach, then struck him in the shoulder. When his stepmother came into the room, he stabbed her as well.

Jesus Medrano Jr. and Latrice Meyers-Medrano

Medrano III said he fled when he heard his father saying they would call police, running to the home of a relative who lived a few blocks away. Other kids ran from the house to a neighbor who called 911.

Cops later found Medrano III, covered with blood and with a machete in his right hand. “Just kill me,” Medrano said, according to police who took  him into custody without incident.

Medrano III has been charged wiith two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree sexual assault and child abuse. He was held on $2.5 million bond.

Man Who Killed Wife, Sister to Protect Them from Covid-19 Gets Life in Mental Institution

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WAUKESHA, Wisconsin — A man obsessively concerned about coronavirus will spend the rest of his life in a mental health institution for stabbing four of his family members — two fatally — to protect them from the disease.

Adam Roth, 36, of Waukesha, was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in the attack, which authorities said was linked to his concerns about coronavirus. He told a detective the day after the stabbing that coronavirus “was coming and I had to save them.”

In March, Roth began stabbing his wife, Dominique Roth, as they say in their kitchen eating, according to a criminal complaint. When her mother, Gilane Popanda, and Gilane’s other daughters, Desiree and Deidre, tried to stop him, he “turned on everybody,” the complaint said.

Dominique Roth, 34, her sister, Deidre Popanda, 26, and a family dog died from their injuries. Desiree Popanda, 36, and Gilane Popanda, 62, also suffered significant injuries in the stabbing, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Waukesha County Deputy District Attorney Ted Szczupakiewicz asked for a lifetime commitment for Roth, requesting institutional care as opposed to conditional release.

“There is clear and convincing evidence that if Mr. Roth would be conditionally released, he would pose a significant risk. And that’s not a risk, at this point, I think anyone would hope the court would take,” he said.

Roth’s attorney, Cameron Weitzner, did not challenge the prosecution’s requested sentence.

“This case is about an individual who is suffering from mental illness and was suffering in a way that I don’t think any of us can understand,” Weitzner said.

Roth earlier pleaded guilty but not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide.

Thieves Steal Tire, Replace it With Turkey Just in Time for Thanksgiving

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MILWAUKEE — It’s a crime even the Butterball hotline couldn’t solve.

A Milwaukee man says he was dumbfounded to find a tire had been stolen from his car just before Thanksgiving and replaced with a turkey.

The man told WITI-TV that he came out to head to work when he noticed the stunning switcheroo.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” the man said. “I heard of people putting bricks, but I’ve never heard of a turkey underneath. I hope you enjoy that tire because you could have given that turkey to somebody who really needed it.”  

The man said he filed a police report, and added it will cost him $600 to get it fixed.

Cops Stumped by Rare Tree Theft from U. of Wisconsin Arboretum

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This was all that remained of the targeted tree

MADISON, Wisconsin — Cops are on the lookout for a conifer crook who took off with a giant, rare tree from the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.

The UW-Madison Police Department say that sometime between Nov. 5 and Nov. 9, a rare 25-foot tall Algonquin Pillar Swiss Mountain Pine Tree was cut down and stolen from the UW Arboretum property. 

The tree was located about 30 yards from the arboretum’s main drive. The very rare tree was planted in 1988. Its twin, which had been planted right next to it, was left unharmed. 

The curator of the Arboretum’s Longenecker Horticultural Gardens, David Stevens, told the Wisconsin State Journal that he believes the tree was “most likely taken for a large Christmas tree display.”

“Somebody’s trying to make a buck,” he said. 

“We’re just devastated,” he added. “It feels like somebody broke into your house and stole something precious to you.”

The tree’s twin, on the left, was unharmed

Another large tree nearby – a Compact White Fir which was planted in 1981 – had a 12 foot section cut from the top of the tree. That cut section, however, was left behind, cops said.

The arboretum estimates the cost of the damaged tree and the stolen tree is at least $13,000.

Staffers think the thieves must have used a flatbed truck to get the tree out of the facility so the theft probably occurred late at night.

Police are urging anyone who “witnessed a large tree being transported from this area – or notices a large tree that’s now part of someone’s holiday display,” to call them.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Cops Revive Heroin Addict From His 19th Overdose

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MADISON, Wisconsin — This guy has got more lives than two cats put together.

A 30-year-old Wisconsin drug addict who was revived from a heroin overdose at a local hospital last week, blurted out that it marked the 19th time he had overdosed, Madison police said.

The suspect — whose name was not publicly released — had been given large doses of Naloxone and was alert and gabbing as cops arrived at a clinic in Madison.

That’s when he was overheard describing his litany of prior overdose episodes.

The man was charged with possession of paraphernalia and possession of heroin. A second man who was in the car was also arrested for theft of someone else’s suboxone, possession of a prescription drug not his own and bail jumping.

Teen Reaches Deal to Avoid Jail Time in Terrifying Slender Man Stabbing

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WAUKESHA, Wisconsin  — A teen who stabbed a classmate 19 times in a chilling bid to impress a fictional online character known as the Slender Man, has reached a deal with prosecutors  to send her to a psychiatric hospital instead of jail.

Morgan Geyser, 15, was one of two girls who attempted to kill their classmate in the woods in 2014 in a terrifying outburst of violence when they were just 12-years-old.

They said they did it because they  believed that it would keep the Slender Man, a shadowy, horror figure that exists mainly online, from harming their families.

The victim, Payton Leutner, who was also 12 at the time of the attack, survived and managed to crawl out of the woods and get help from a passing cyclist.

Geyser’s co-defendant, Anissa Weier, pleaded guilty last month to reduced charges and a jury found her mentally ill so she will serve at least three years in a psychiatric hospital.

Morgan Geyser, (l) and Anissa Weier

The girls were charged as adults because of the severity of the crime, but during mental health evaluations, Geyser was diagnosed with early-onset schizophrenia. Weier was also diagnosed as being delusional.

The Slender Man myth emerged online about a decade ago, with the fictional character, often described as exceedingly tall and with very long arms,  terrorizing children and threatening danger against their families.

 

Drunken Police Chase Ends With Spider Man Driver Leaping Off Highway Overpass

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KENOSHA, Wisconsin — He almost got away.

A drunken 24-year-old Wisconsin man led police on a wild, high-speed chase that ended with him jumping 25 feet off an elevated roadway and narrowly avoiding being hit by a car below, authorities said.

The Kenosha County Sheriff’s office said officers spotted the man driving a Nissan 350Z on I-94 on Tuesday and attempted to stop him for driving with an illegal temporary registration.

But instead of pulling over, the driver hit the gas and raced off at speeds of over 100 miles per hour. With officers in hot pursuit, the man lost control and struck the median.

He then got out of the car and ran from cops, leaping off the elevated roadway and hitting the ground 25 feet below where a car had to swerve to avoid hitting him.

He was severely injured in the fall and was taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital in critical condition. An 18-year-old passenger who was in the vehicle was also taken to the hospital with injuries from the crash.

The driver, whose name has not been released, has been charged with DWI, hit and run and fleeing from police.

Dopey Teens Busted for Making Drug Deal Next to Wisconsin Police Station

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Trace Schofield (left)), Desmond Trok (center) and Matthew Jones (right) were charged in the poorly planned drug deal.

ELLSWORTH, Wisconsin — All that weed must have dulled these boys’ senses.

Three dopey drug-dealing teens made it too easy for cops in Wisconsin by negotiating the sale of a quarter pound of marijuana just steps away from a police station and in plain view of several officers.

Prosecutors say the dim-witted trio pulled into a gas station parking lot on March 9, right next to the Pierce County law enforcement center to make the deal, according to the Woodbury Bulletin.

What they didn’t notice as they tried to exchange the bundle of weed, was a nine-year veteran of the St. Croix Valley Drug Task Force pumping gas into his squad car on one side of them, and a sheriff’s deputy and Department of Natural Resources warden on the other.

Both officers immediately contacted police dispatchers and the teens — identified as Desmond Trok, 18, Matthew P. Jones, 18 and Trace Schofield, 17  — were pulled over and arrested a short way away from the gas station where the deal went down.

The three teens were charged with delivering THC, a felony.

An investigation led cops to a student at the local high school who they say admitted to have arranged the deal.

Juggalo Jailed For Chopping Off Woman’s Finger In Insane Clown Posse Ritual

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Juggalo Jonathan Schrap is obsessed with the Insane Clown Posse

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin — The FBI may consider the Juggalos a gang, but this guy makes them sound more like a cult.

A Wisconsin man obsessed with the Insane Clown Posse has been sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison for chopping off a woman’s finger with an ax in a twisted celebration of a fellow fan of the rap group who had died.

“Where do you go with this? How can this happen? How can this even happen in Green Bay?” the perplexed judge on the case, John Zakowski said at sentencing.

Jonathan Schrap, 24, admitted that he and a group of pals were holding a “ritualistic memorial” at his house in August to honor a fellow member of the Juggalos — which is what fans of the Insane Clown Posse, or ICP, call themselves — who had died, according to WBAY-TV.

The woman, who is also a Juggalo and told authorities that she was willing participant, said she let Schrap cut her arm with a machete and drink her blood.

She then said she was cool with Schrap cutting off her right pinky finger with the machete while another Juggalo videotaped the episode. According to court documents the amputation took more than one chop.

“Jon then placed the finger in his freezer where he said he would cook it and eat it later,” the court documents read. “The group then attempted to stop the bleeding by using a car cigarette lighter which failed. They then used a blowtorch.”

Schrap sports several Insane Clown Posse-themed tattoos

Schrap and his buddies then drove the profusely bleeding woman back to her boyfriend’s house where his mother told her she needed to go to the hospital. Emergency room staff immediately called cops.

The woman insisted to investigators that she was not under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time and that she  did not want criminal charges pursued.

The Green Bay Press-Gazette reported that the woman had recently been released from a psychiatric hospital.

At his sentencing, Schrap — who is covered in ICP tattoos — admitted it was an “idiotic and random act,” and that he was embarrassed that it has negative attention to the Insane Clown Posse and its fans.

Drunk Rings in New Year With Spectacular Swan Dive into Police Windshield

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MENASHA, Wisconsin — Two Wisconsin cops were given what hell of a start to the New Year by a knucklehead reveler who leaped headlong into the windshield of their patrol car, caving in the glass but walking away unscathed.

Cody James Romano admitted he’d had a bit too much to drink

The Menasha police department said the man, identified as Cody James Romano, 25, was dead drunk when he took a running start at the stopped police cruiser just past midnight on New Year’s before doing a belly-flop  into the windshield.

“As the officer saw him, down the road from him, he stopped and turned on his spotlight, was beginning to exit his vehicle to make contact and as the video shows, the man came running right at the squad car and impacted the windshield,” Police Chief Tim Styka told WBAY-TV.

He then jumped up on the roof of the car before getting into a tussle with officers. After being taken into custody, Romano calmed down and admitted he had drank too much and had grown upset at the party.

Romano and one of the officers were treated and released from a local hospital. Romano was then booked into the Winnebago County Jail on multiple charges.
“A reminder that if you drink, please do so responsibly,” police said.

 

This was all that was left of the police cruiser window after Romano was done with it

Milwaukee Cop in Shooting that Set off Riots Charged with Rape

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rape-copMILWAUKEE — A cop whose fatal shooting of a black man triggered days of rioting in Milwaukee over the summer was charged with sexually assaulting a man in a separate event a day after the killing.

Authorities say Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown bragged to the victim before the alleged assault that he “was able to do whatever (he) wanted without repercussions,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported, citing the criminal complaint.

The document painted a picture of the 24-year-old officer as a predator who had assaulted other men after drinking and paid male prostitutes for sex.

“These are grave charges. These are charges that go to the heart of our code of conduct and our oath to protect and serve,” Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said.

Investigators say Heaggan-Brown, who is an amateur rapper, had made contact with the victim on Facebook saying he was looking for someone to make music with. The two met in person at a bar on Aug. 14, the day after Heaggan-Brown fatally shot  Sylville Smith during a traffic stop.

Police say body camera footage showed Smith was armed and pointing a gun at officers when he was shot, but the killing set off long-simmering tensions among Milwaukee’s minority community about police treatment and resulted in several days of clashes.

Heaggan-Brown has not been charged in the shooting but prosecutors are still investigating. At the time, police said Officer Heaggan-Brown had left town for his own safety after receiving death threats. But in actuality, he remained in Milwaukee.

The victim, who told police he didn’t usually drink, said he sat with Heaggan-Brown, who was off-duty, at the bar watching news accounts of the shooting the day before and consumed two Long Island iced teas, three shots of Hennessy and a “pink drink.”

Milwaukee Police Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown is charged with raping a man a day after pulling the trigger in a fatal shooting that set off riots

Milwaukee Police Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown is charged with raping a man a day after pulling the trigger in a shooting that set off riots

The man told cops he couldn’t clearly remember what happened after they left the bar, but woke up to find Heaggan-Brown raping him. The complaint said he told cops he believed he may have been drugged.

Heaggan-Brown later took the man to a hospital where he told staffers he had had too much to drink and was “completely out, zonked out of his gourd.” But the victim told hospital staff he had been raped.

After that, prosecutors say Heaggan-Brown sent a text message to a police sergeant he considered a mentor asking for help.

“Need your help big time … fucked up big time … but need to handle this the most secret and right way possible,” he wrote, according to the complaint. When he later met with the sergeant, he said the sex was consensual but that the man had been drunk.

Prosecutors allege Heaggan-Brown also assaulted another intoxicated man in his apartment on July 30, and took photos of the encounter without his consent. They also found evidence on his phone that he had hired prostitutes for sex.

Heaggan-Brown was charged with two counts of felony second-degree sexual assault, and two counts of prostitution, a misdemeanor. He also is charged with possessing a recording of nudity without consent. He was held on $100,000 bail.

 

 

 

Vikings Fan Slashed in Packer Country Over Lawn Ornament

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David Moschel loves his Vikings so much he almost died for them

                   David Moschel loves his Vikings so much he almost died for them

STOUGHTON, Wisconsin — A diehard Vikings fan was left with 67 stitches on his face and head after he confronted a crazed Packers fan cutting holes in an inflatable Vikings decoration on his lawn.

David Moschel told police he was in his living room in Stoughton, Wisconsin watching the Vikings take on the Texans on Sunday when he heard a “slicing” noise coming from outside, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.

When Moschel went outside to investigate, police say 21-year-old Jacob A. Justice charged at him and slashed him eight times with a box cutter. Moschel’s girlfriend, who had been inside the house with the couple’s five kids, managed to pull Justice away while neighbors called 911. Police arrested Justice at the scene.

Jacob A. Justice took his hatred for the Vikings too far

Jacob A. Justice took his hatred for the Vikings too far

Moschel told WISC-TV that he was lucky to survive the attack, but so was Justice.

“Luckily, I didn’t have my concealed carry on me at the time,” he said. “Ninety-nine percent of the time I leave the house, I never leave without it. And this is the one time I did. I’m kind of glad I did, because he would have been dead, and I would have had to live with that.“

Justice was charged with second degree felony of causing a reckless injury which carries a maximum penalty of 12 ½ years in prison.

When Vikings management heard what had happened, they invited Moschel to attend a practice and a game. Moschel said he intends to repair his Viktor the Viking lawn ornament and inflate it for every game for the rest of the season.

“I’m still here, still living, still watching football,” he said.