Law Enforcement

■ ■ March 5 - An officer made contact with a woman at her residence for a littering complaint against her neighbors. The woman said her neighbors have property that is going onto her property and she would like it to stop. The woman said that she wanted the officer to speak to the neighbors about removing their property.

A short time later, the officer made contact with one of the neighbors. The officer advised him about the complaint and that he would have two weeks to remove and clear his property from his neighbor’s property. The officer told the man that a follow-up would be conducted and the man said he understood.

Three days later, the officer returned to the residence and issued the man a warning letter for ordinance violation. The man was given two weeks from that day to clean his property.

■ ■ March 7 - An officer was made aware of an ordinance violation for prohibited storage of junk. The officer traveled to the property and spoke with the homeowner, advising the owner about the Abbotsford ordinance. The officer asked the man if they could walk around the man’s property to inform him on items that needed to be removed. While walking around the house, the officer pointed out all the items that would need to be removed. The officer said all four sides of the property had items that were easily viewable by the public.

The man said he had purchased an enclosed trailer earlier that day to help move some of the items off his property. The man said he needed to organize better and get rid of items to make his house look better. The man was given three weeks to get the property cleaned up and organized before he would be receiving a citation. The man has been advised of the ordinance numerous times prior. Letters have been sent and similar conversations have been had with the man in 2017, 2020 and 2022.

■ ■ March 9 - An officer was dispatched to an apartment in Abbotsford for a noise complaint. The officer arrived and could hear loud music coming from the apartment. The officer made contact with a man and warned him about the noise. A few hours later, the officer was again dispatched to the same address for a noise complaint. The officer made contact with a different male who was also warned about the noise. The man said he did not live there but would not tell the officer who was the renter of the apartment.

The officer later made contact with the apartment manager and asked for the name of the tenant. The manager said she was out of town but would provide the name when she returned. The officer needed to follow up in order to issue a noise citation.

■ ■ March 9 - Two officers were dispatched to a building in Abbotsford for reports of a fight. The caller said there were four people in the bar fighting. The officers arrived and looked around the area, but did not locate anyone fighting. The officers asked several people if there was a fight and they all said there was not a fight. The two officers cleared from the area and checked other nearby bars for a fight but did not locate anything further.

■ March 10 - An officer was dispatched to the city of Abbotsford for a 911 hang up. The officer arrived at the address and knocked several times with no answer. Approximately 15 minutes after the officer had arrived, there was another 911 call to the same location. The officer called the number back and a female answered stating that her friend’s boyfriend was harassing them and she did not trust the man.

The officer arrived again at the address and observed two people in a vehicle. It appeared they were arguing in the alleyway behind the address. The officer had the female step out of the vehicle and speak to the officer. The woman said she was dating the man in the vehicle and they were talking. The woman said she would like to end their relationship but the man did not agree. The woman said that she called 911 once and her friend called the second time because she was feeling uncomfortable with the man. The woman sad that the man kept messaging her on Facebook and kept calling her and insisting that he needed to speak with her. The woman said the man would also insult her.

The woman said that nothing physical occurred and said she did not fear nor felt threatened by the man, but just felt harassed. The woman wanted the man to stop messaging her. The officer advised that she would speak to the man to stop communicating with the woman and told the woman to block the man on social media and in her phone.

The officer then spoke to the man who said they were both talking and said there was no yelling and nothing physical occurred. The officer advised the man that he could not contact the woman anymore and he said he understood. The man left the property without incident.

■ ■ March 10 - An officer observed a vehicle and ran the registration and registered owner’s information on the vehicle while on patrol in the city of Abbotsford. The officer read that the registered owner did not have a valid Wisconsin driver’s license. The officer initiated a traffic stop and the vehicle continued on its way. The officer activated his siren briefly and after two more turns, the vehicle came to a stop about 100 feet into an alleyway in Abbotsford. The officer made contact with the driver and asked for an ID. The driver said he did not have one. The man wrote his name and birth date down for the officer and the passenger verbally identified himself. As the officer was speaking to the two men, the officer could smell the odor of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle.

The officer asked the men how much marijuana was in the vehicle and they said there was none. The officer ran both the men through dispatch and was told that neither man came back on file. The officer looked at the owner information and saw that one of the men was the registered owner of the vehicle and saw a birth date that was different than what the man initially wrote down.

The officer returned to the car and again asked the man for his birth date. The man turned to the passenger and spoke to him before answering with the false birth date. The officer asked the man if the car belonged to him and the man said it did. The officer asked the man why the registration showed a birth date that was different than what he was telling the officer. The man again spoke to the passenger before telling the officer a wrong birth date again. The officer asked the man why he would put a different date down when he registered the vehicle. The man again spoke to the passenger. The officer told the man to stop talking to the passenger and tell the officer the man’s real birth date.

The man then told the officer his correct date of birth and said he lied because he was nervous.

The officer returned to his squad car and completed citations for operating without a valid driver’s license and obstructing an officer. A Marathon County Deputy and Clark County Deputy arrived at the location and due to the strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle, a probable cause search was initiated. The officers searched the driver and located a clear, plastic bag in his front pants pocket. The bag contained a green, leafy substance in it. Nothing was found on the passenger’s person. The officers located two smoked blunts with a green, leafy substance inside in the compartment under the car radio and under the driver’s seat, the officer located a pipe with burnt residue inside.

The evidence was secured and the officer asked the driver about what was found in the vehicle. The man said he found the pipe in the garbage and kept it. The officer then asked about the blunts and the man said he did not know what those were. The man said he last smoked marijuana yesterday. The man was given a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, given the rest of the citations and was released from the scene.

The officer then tested the substances while back at the police department. The substances all tested positive for marijuana.

■ March 10 - An officer was dispatched to an address in Abbotsford for a noise complaint. The officer was told that a house has been playing very loud music since 6:30 a.m. that morning. The officer arrived and could hear the loud music as he was a block away. The officer pulled up to the house and could hear very loud music coming from the garage. The officer knocked on the door and the music shut off. The officer could hear people talking. The officer knocked again and a male who appeared to be very intoxicated opened the door. The officer asked the man if he lived at the house and he said he did not. The front door opened and a female that said she lived in the house spoke to officers. The woman said she was sleeping and her husband was in the garage with a friend. The officer asked the woman if she had been warned in the past for loud music and she said she had.

The officer went back to his squad car and confirmed that the woman had been issued a verbal warning for the same type of noise complaint. The officer completed a citation for loud and unnecessary noise and the woman told the officer she would tell her husband to keep the music down.