Wisconsin Afternoon State News for Wednesday 3/14/18

>>Family Members Hide While Armed Intruders Burglarize Their House (Milwaukee, WI)  —  Multiple surveillance cameras captured three armed burglars breaking into a Milwaukee house and getting away with electronics.  Thevy Pena and her 12-year-old son were in the home at the time.  The son was on the couch when the men started kicking in the front door.  He ran upstairs and joined his mother in a bedroom with the door locked.  The video shows the masked robbers going through the first floor of the home, carrying their weapons while looking for stuff to steal.  They started up the stairs, then stopped and ran outside just before police arrived.   >>Judge

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Black River Falls Defendant Takes Plea Bargain On Day Trial Was To Start

  (Black River Falls, WI)  —  A Black River Falls man will be sentenced on his guilty plea to a charge of homicide by drunk driving in June.  Thomas Jahnke’s trial was supposed to start in Jackson County Circuit Court Monday, but he stopped the trial by taking a plea bargain.  Investigators say Jahnke was drunk when he ran a stop sign at a high rate of speed in August 2012 and slammed into a second car.  The driver was injured and 24-year-old Kayla Koneman of Lyndon Station was pronounced dead at the scene. Source: WRJC.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

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Many Citations Written for Underage Party, Further Investigation Continues

Saturday night, shortly after 10pm, Juneau County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to a reported underage drinking party in Orange Township.  When deputies arrived many of the party goers scattered into the nearby woods or back into the residence.  Deputies located several in the woods and brought them to their patrol cars for further investigation.  Raymond Petska, age 22, eventually emerged from the house and made several false statements to deputies.  He also claimed he did not know whose party it was or who owned the house.  Deputies wrote citations for underage drinking and several more citations for parking violations.  The case has also been turned over to the District Attorney

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