A Twin Lakes man is facing the next several years in prison after he allegedly kidnapped his girlfriend before Christmas and led U.S. Marshals on a high-speed chase. Justin Bollinger was arrested on Thurs., Jan. 5, and is expected to be charged on Friday, Jan. 6, in Kenosha County Circuit Court with a host of […]
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Brittany Booker Story: Jackson Charged with Killing Mother of 6
After more than a month on the run after he allegedly killed Brittany Booker, a mother of six, Terry Jackson was in court Thursday and charged with her murder. In total, he was charged in Racine County Circuit Court with 23 felonies, the most serious of which is the first-degree intentional homicide charge for Booker’s […]
DA: Employee and children kidnapped for hours before bank robbery
Four people stand accused of kidnapping a Kenosha woman and her children, holding them against their will in Milwaukee, and then forcing the woman — a Wells Fargo bank employee — to open the bank in Racine so that they could rob it. The Racine County District Attorney’s Office issued charges against William Howell, George […]
FBI, Racine Police investigate reported bank robbery, kidnapping,
Racine Police are investigating a reported robbery and kidnapping that happened Saturday morning at Wells Fargo Bank, 1700 Martin Luther King Drive. Law enforcement officials have been on scene for more than an hour and have had the entire bank blocked off with crime scene tape. A security officer with Wells Fargo would not go […]
Sheriff: Woman Faked Her Own Kidnapping
A woman from Union Grove was charged after she stole her mother’s car and faked her own kidnapping. Amber Marie Pfeiffer, 34, borrowed her mother’s car to go to work on Aug. 13. She didn’t return. Instead, she called her mother on Monday saying she was being held captive by “drug dealers” and they wanted […]
Week In Review: Thousands Of Books Removed, Police Shoot Dogs, Man Killed
You’ve been busy, we’ve been busy. Catch up on our top most read stories for the month in our week in review. Thousands Of Books Removed From Racine Unified Schools Racine Police Shoot Two Dogs, Killing One One Man Dead In Skydiving Accident At Skydive Midwest Kiss the Cook Opening Soon in Sturtevant Update: Suspected […]
Update: Suspected Kidnapper Arrested After Crashing Car
**Updated 7:30 p.m. A suspected kidnapper and possible sexual assault perpetrator is behind bars Tuesday after leading police on a chase that spanned three counties. Police say the male suspect was wanted out of Milwaukee on a kidnapping charge after grabbing a male victim from a bus stop in that city and possibly sexually assaulting […]
K9 Dozer Helps Take Down Kidnapping Suspect
Racine Police Department K9 Dozer helped his human partners take down a kidnapping suspect Sunday on the top floor of the McMynn Parking Garage downtown. Samuel Jackson, 32, of Buffalo Grove, IL, remains in the Racine County Jail on two counts of obstruction for resisting arrest Sunday while police were trying to take him into […]