Law Enforcement
n September 18 - Officers were dispatched to a local nursing home for a report of a resident that was acting out and may have active warrants. The officer arrived and met with the administrator who said they were having issues with the resident. The administrator said the man has been very disrespectful to staff and other patients and they had recently found a bottle of wine in his room which is against their rules. The administrator said the man is fully capable of leaving the facility on his own but he does not want to leave.
The officers met with the man in the dining room. The warrants were confirmed as being valid through Wood county. The man said he was told by his probation agent that he could not be arrested for the warrants unless he leaves the nursing home. The officer explained to the man that Wood county said they want him taken into custody for the warrants. The officer placed the man under arrest for bail jumping, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and stalking. The man was then transported to Clark County Jail.
n September 19 - An officer received a call regarding a theft from an apartment complex in Abbotsford. The officer met with the manager of the property who said a resident had his electric scooter stolen. The manager said she reviewed video footage from a couple days prior and could see that the scooter was sitting in front of an apartment. The video showed a group of kids walking past the scooter and then an unknown juvenile goes back and gets on the scooter and rides it away. Once they leave the property, it is unknown where the group of kids went.
The kids were in an apartment talking to a person before the scooter was stolen. The officer met with the person and asked who the kids are in the picture. The person does not know the name of the kid who stole the scooter. The person identified two other kids in the group.
The officer then talked to the owner of the scooter who said he would like to file a report. The man said that sometimes the kids that live in the complex ride the scooter but always return it to him but this time they did not return it and he does not recognize any of the kids. The man gave the officer a description of the scooter and the value of it. The officer checked the area to see if the scooter was abandoned in the area but did not locate it.
The officer went to one of the kids’ homes and was able to get a phone number for the boy’s mother and spoke to her. The woman said she had spoken to another officer about the scooter. The woman said her son does not know the kid that took the scooter and shortly after taking the scooter, the suspect left the group of kids. The matter is still under investigation.
n September 19 - An officer received a call from an Abbotsford resident who said that when she was walking her dog, a dog that lives at a nearby residence ran out of the yard and toward her dog. The woman said she yelled for the people at the house to get a hold of their dog. The woman said that she has seen this same dog running around in the Abbyland parking lot and a nearby open field.
The officer went to the residence to speak to the owners of the dog. The officer could see a small dog on the porch and one of the kids was holding onto the collar. The officer explained the reason he was visiting and gave them a warning. He told them if the issue continues, they could be cited for allowing a dog to run at large.
n September 19 - An officer was notified of a barking dog complaint in Colby. The officer arrived and saw two dogs outside at the residence. The officer met with a man at the residence who said he has been trying to get his puppy to stop barking and is trying various thing. The officer warned the man that if the barking continues, he could be cited for barking dogs. The man said he understood and would work on the problem.
n September 19 - An officer was dispatched to a local nursing home for a possible drug issue on the property. The officer arrived and met with the administrator who said they were cleaning out a man’s room and located some possible THC gummies. The woman gave the officer a plastic bag filled with gummies that had a slight odor of marijuana. The man was arrested the day before and was not going to be allowed back into the nursing home. The administrator said they were cleaning out the man’s room for his son to come and pick up. The administrator said there were some vape devices in the room but they could be nicotine. The officer met with an employee who showed the officer the devices that were in the room. The officer noticed that the vape device looked like something that could be consistent with THC. The employee said the man shared a room with someone but each resident had a night stand with a drawer that they could lock. The man’s night stand was unlocked and nothing else was located in the man’s room.
The officer took the devices and tested them back at the police department. The vape device tested positive for marijuana and the gummies tested negative. The officer needed to make contact with the man to get an updated address before mailing citations for possession of THC and possession of drug paraphernalia.
n September 20 - An officer took a report of identity theft. The man said he used to live in Medford and said that he was having a baby and that due to his low income, he and his wife had decided to apply for government assistance to be able to provide for their child. The man said that after filling out paperwork, he received correspondence back saying that his request was denied due to him having three jobs and making too much money. The man looked into the jobs that they were showing tied to his social security number and found one in Beloit and the other at Abbyland Foods in Abbotsford.
The man said that he had not given his information to anyone to use and was upset as it was now affecting his ability to provide for his family. The man sent the officer a picture of his driver’s license along with a picture of himself to confirm his appearance. The man also provided the officer with his identifying information to find the person using his identity.
The officer later spoke with an HR employee at Abbyland about the report. They confirmed they had an employee there working under the man’s name and social security number. The employee had started to work there in 2022 and the officer was able to obtain copies of the employee’s file along with photographs taken of him. The man appeared to be a different person than the complainant.
The next day, the officer went to Abbyland and spoke to the man. The officer had the man write down his name and birthday but the man said he could not remember his birthday. The man wrote down the complainant’s name. The officer told the man that the real person with that name had called the officer the day prior to report the issues he was having due to someone using his information at Abbyland.
The officer asked the man if he could write his real name. The man agreed and admitted that he had bought the complainant’s information for $800 through a friend. The man said he did not remember the friend’s name as he had since left the area but the friend had offered to get him the information and requested a picture. The man paid him and three days later he received a fake Wisconsin ID card and fake social security card with the complainant’s information.
The man said he only used the information for employment and did not know who’s information he would be receiving before requesting the information from the friend. The man said he would stop in and return the fake documents to the officer. The man did so later that day and showed the officer an ID card from Guatemala matching all the prior information the man had written down for the officer.
The officer requested a charge of unauthorized use of an individual’s personal identifying information to the Marathon County District Attorney’s office for the man.
n September 23 - An officer was driving in Abbotsford when he observed a vehicle with a burnt out head lamp. The officer conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle and made contact with the driver. The driver told the officer he did not have a driver’s license and instead gave him an identification card. The K9 officer arrived on scene and K9 Dodge alerted to the vehicle. The officers had the occupants exit the vehicle and they were searched. Nothing was found during the body search and the officers began searching the vehicle.
The officer located a green, leafy substance in a clear ziploc bag in the glove box. The occupants of the vehicle said the substance was not theirs. The officer told them that he was going to test the substance and if it tested positive, the occupants would be mailed a citation for possession of marijuana. The officer gave the driver a warning for a defective head lamp and transported the bag to the Colby-Abbotsford Police Department.
While back at the department, the substance was tested, and came back positive for marijuana.
n September 23 - An officer was dispatched to Hwy. 29 near State Hwy. 13 for a report of erratic driving. The officer located the vehicle in question and conducted a stop of the truck on Hwy. 29 near Hiline Ave. in the city of Abbotsford. The officer made contact with the driver who said there were two guns in the back seat that were unloaded. The officer had the man step out of the vehicle and walk to the front of the officer’s patrol vehicle. The officer noticed the man to have glassy eyes and slurred speech.
The officer asked the man if he had any alcohol and he said he had a couple of bottles and cans of beer. The man admitted that he probably had a couple more beers than he should have drank and said he would be honest with the officer. He said he was in trouble that night because he had too many beers to be driving that night. The man said he was in Tomahawk that night and was driving to Eau Claire.
The man agreed to perform the standardized field sobriety tests and a preliminary breath test. The officer ran the man through dispatch and found him to have a suspended driver’s license. The result of the preliminary breath test was 0.169 and the man was arrested for operating while under the influence (first offense). The man was issued citations for operating while under the influence, operating with a prohibited alcohol concentration, operating while suspended and a warning for deviation from designated lane. The man was then released to a responsible party.
n September 24 - An officer was dispatched for a caller who said there was a vehicle that was all over the road. The officer located the vehicle turning southbound on State Hwy. 13. The officer followed the vehicle and saw the driver turn onto the eastbound on ramp and the officer initiated a traffic stop of the vehicle.
The officer made contact with the driver and asked where she was driving to. The woman said she was driving to Spencer as that’s where she lives. The officer informed the woman she was going the wrong way if she was trying to travel to Spencer. The officer smelled alcohol coming from the woman’s breath and observed her to have slurred speech. The woman said she was in Tomahawk where she drank two drinks over the course of two hours. The woman agreed to perform the standardized field sobriety tests and a preliminary breath test. The result of the preliminary breath test was 0.41 and the woman was placed under arrest for operating while under the influence.
The woman was transported to the Colby-Abbotsford Police Department and was issued citations for operating while under the influence (first offense), operation with a prohibited alcohol concentration and a warning for deviation from designated lane. The woman was then released to a responsible party.
