Kody Finfrock, the man who commented on a Facebook post about his outstanding warrants with Janesville police, turned himself in to authorities Friday night, according to a Janesville Police Department news release.
A Darien man was charged with arson the day before he was to be sentenced for crashing his car and fighting with police, who twice shot him with a Taser.
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Lucas Stuhr, the man accused in the gunfire homicide of a Janesville man in January, will be transferred to a secure mental health facility until he is competent to stand trial, a judge decided Wednesday.
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Beloit police have located a stolen vehicle—and a 10-year-old child with disabilities who police believe was inside the vehicle while it was being stolen.
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A Clinton teen accused of shooting a Janesville woman Sunday night was charged with attempted murder in Rock County Court on Tuesday.
A Lake Geneva man has been charged with reckless homicide for allegedly helping provide the fentanyl that killed a Delavan man in September, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.
A Beloit Memorial High School teacher has been arrested on a charge of sexual assault of a child by a school staff person.
A Mukwonago woman is charged with embezzling more than $31,000 from Whitewater Chiropractic over about seven years, according to a criminal complaint filed in Walworth County Court.
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A man was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for a November armed robbery of a west-side Janesville store.
Clinton police arrested a man suspected of shooting an 18-year-old woman Sunday night in Clinton.
Milton police are investigating an allegation that members of the Orfordville Parkview show choir team were video-recorded in their dressing room at a competition in Milton.
The last of the four Beloit men accused in the drive-by shooting death of a 5-year-old in 2016 pleaded guilty Friday in Rock County Court.
What if a man committed a terrible crime but later suffered a brain injury that wiped out his memory of it? That is a question that a judge considered in Rock County Court on Thursday.
After expressing uncertainty about her guilty plea from nearly a year ago, a Lake Geneva woman Thursday ultimately chose to stay with that plea in a case involving a methamphetamine explosion in a hotel.
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Arielle L. Landing of Janesville was sentenced Wednesday in a 2017 incident in which she rammed a woman with an SUV.
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Janesville police are looking for a vehicle involved in an incident that occurred Monday outside Jackson Elementary School.
Walworth County prosecutors have charged a Genoa City man and woman after a methamphetamine bust last week led to three arrests and what might be the largest seizure of meth in the county’s history.
The arrest of a man suspected of breaking into a town of Beloit house led to a search warrant and discovery of marijuana sales, according to court documents.
A Johnstown man was sentenced to three years of probation Monday for a firearm incident in 2017.
The Janesville man shot to death in Beloit on Saturday has been identified as James M. Tomten, 28, according to a release from the Rock County Medical Examiner’s Department.
A Janesville man faces multiple charges, including intoxicated driving causing injury, in connection with a crash on County O on Sunday night, Rock County sheriff's officials said Monday.
Authorities still have not named the Janesville man killed Saturday afternoon in Beloit, but Beloit police plan to hold a press conference Monday afternoon to give more details of what they're calling a homicide investigation.
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Black people in Rock County are arrested at much higher rates than their numbers might suggest. Local officials are considering the data and options.
Beloit police are investigating the death of Janesville man on Beloit's west side as a homicide, according to a Facebook post by the Beloit Police Department.
Police seized about 4 ounces of methamphetamine at a Genoa City home early Wednesday, Genoa City police announced on Facebook.
Isaac W. Torres pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced charge for his role in the 2016 shooting death of a 5-year-old boy.
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The future of Walworth County’s treatment courts is uncertain after the district attorney on Tuesday questioned his office’s participation in the programs and its level of control over who enters them.
Town of Beloit police responded to a report of a burglary in progress on Tuesday morning and made an arrest.
A man accused of driving with an exceedingly high blood-alcohol content was charged in Rock County Court this week.
A man who wielded a shotgun outside his Janesville home Friday was distraught over finances, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
A town of Milton woman was arrested Jan. 26 after she was accused of punching a deputy in an incident at a tavern.
An Elkhorn teenager has been sentenced to four years of probation after pleading guilty Jan. 24 to reduced charges that he stole items the Elkhorn Lions Club had collected for the homeless.
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Social Security is warning people of criminals who are trying to get people to reveal personal information over the phone.
A town of Beloit man is accused in a hit-and-run to a stopped school bus in the town of Beloit on Friday.
A man was taken into custody about 2:50 p.m. Friday in the 600 block of East Milwaukee Street after police received reports of a man holding a firearm.
A sheriff’s deputy was justified in fatally shooting an intoxicated Elkhorn man who drove a car at the deputy last October, the Walworth County district attorney said Friday.
A Rock County committee has until March 27 to secure housing for a sexually violent person scheduled to be released, despite tight housing restrictions for offenders.
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Police are searching for the people who robbed Five Points Grocery and Gas near downtown Janesville early Wednesday morning.
Dustin L. Kirichkow of Janesville is charged with felony intoxicated driving in Rock County Court.
A man accused in a shooting death last Wednesday in Janesville will be assessed for his competence to stand trial.
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Elkhorn police are looking for the driver of a stolen minivan who drove away from a Mobil gas station without paying Jan. 20.
An Illinois man suspected in an an out-of-state aggravated battery incident was found and arrested by police in Janesville.
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UW-Whitewater police have learned of a sexual assault in which the victim thought he or she was followed by a stranger Friday on campus, according to a university announcement Monday.
In 2017, there were 14 overdose deaths in Janesville. None resulted in prosecutions, and one saw an arrest. District Attorney David O’Leary explains why drug cases are so hard to prove.
A Lake Geneva man was charged with seventh-offense intoxicated driving, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Walworth County Court.
Bond was set at $500,000 for Lucas E. Stuhr, who repeatedly threatened to kill the man he is accused of fatally shooting Wednesday night, according to a criminal complaint.
Two suspects were arrested near Stoughton in an Illinois carjacking after a car chase early Friday morning.
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Clifford A. Grice, 41, of Janesville, was shot to death on the city's south side Wednesday in an incident police are calling a "domestic-related" homicide.
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Janesville police say they have a person in custody after an apparent shooting on the southwest side of the city left a person wounded, according to a Wednesday night news release.
The Whitewater Police Department has passed a state accreditation process for the sixth time, according to a news release on Tuesday.
A skimmer installed at a Janesville gas station last fall is an example of a nationwide problem.
