Crime

A telephone scam plaguing Chippewa County residents involves scammers posing as law enforcement demanding payment for outstanding warrants.

Police responded to an alarm after 11 p.m. Thursday night at General Coin & Gun Exchange on South Hastings Way.

A person of interest in a Minneapolis shooting and robbery has been arrested in Centuria.

At 19,581 inmates, that’s the lowest level since October 1999.

A Chippewa Falls man has been charged with possessing 50 grams or more of meth with an intent to distribute.

A 52-year-old Tomah man is in custody after allegedly firing shots from a pistol outside a tavern on Saturday.

33-year-old Evelyn Baron of Menomonie was arrested by the State Patrol for OWI and possession of THC.

Police responded to a home in the Town of Sigel, the area south of Cadott, on a report of a home invasion Wednesday morning, making two arrests.

The incident occurred about seven miles south of Eau Claire on Lowes Creek Road on Tuesday afternoon.

A man was found to be in possession of meth, THC wax, and multiple drug paraphernalia items during a traffic stop in Thorp.

An Eau Claire man has been charged with possession of child pornography after being accused of sending a child pornographic video over Facebook.

Authorities say Ethan Hauschulz died of hypothermia and blunt force injuries to the head, chest and abdomen.

A driver was cited after their vehicle left the road and crashed near a set of train tracks north of Black River Falls

On Tuesday, the Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office arrested 72-year-old Roger Sahs, a former teacher at Eau Claire Memorial High School and McDonell Central High School who has been substitute teaching in the Eau Claire Area School District since February, for repeated sexual assault of a child.

Ethan’s Law, which is aimed at protecting children from being placed with known abusers, has passed the Senate Committee on Human Services,

Timothy Young plead guilty for first-degree intentional homicide Thursday morning for the 2020 shooting death of Anthony Fimple.

Information is being sought by the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Office about a hit and run on Friday, March 5 at the Jailhouse Saloon in Trempealeau, Wis.

Dezman Ellis, 17, appeared before an Outagamie County judge Wednesday for an arraignment hearing.

A Minnesota woman was arrested Wednesday at 3 a.m. for a first offense OWI. Wisconsin State Patrol found two children under 16 in the vehicle.

The 46-year-old Neillsville woman convicted of stabbing her husband after she said she caught him having an affair will spend 6 years in prison followed by 7 years extended supervision.

A long standoff with a driver who held a baby while armed with a butcher knife has ended without injury in Dodge County.

Weier is committed at Winnebago Mental Health Institution in Oshkosh.

An Eau Claire bar owner has been charged with violating health rules/orders/ordinance in Eau Claire County after remaining open when bars were to be closed on March 17, 2020.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is currently looking for an armed and dangerous subject who reportedly fired shots at a deputy.

Adrian Irby was arrested while driving three-and-a-half pounds of meth from Mississippi to Fond du Lac.

Nineteen-year-old Anissa Weier is scheduled to appear in a Waukesha County Circuit Court on Wednesday.

A 25-year-old Merrill woman is facing criminal charges after a toddler in her care suffered a brain injury.

Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ashley Speicher, 33, Lublin, Wisconsin was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 42 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin.

A Fall Creek woman has been charged with theft in Eau Claire County and she is accused of stealing from the charity she founded.

Wisconsin Representative Jodi Emerson says her house was vandalized Sunday night and the Eau Claire Police Department responded.