GREEN BAY, WI- A suspect accused of burning a man’s body last September has been bound over for trial in Brown County Circuit Court. Jeisaac Rodriguez-Garcia waived a preliminary hearing and was ordered to stand trial Thursday. Rodriguez-Garcia is scheduled to enter a plea to the charge of mutilating a corpse next month. The body of 36-year-old Jason Mendez-Ramos was found on the edge of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus. Officers were called about a grass fire and that’s when they found the body. No one has been charged with causing Mendez-Ramos’ death.
GREEN BAY, WI- The extended supervision period has been reduced for a convicted killer in Brown County, but Jeffrey Wickman still has to serve 36 years in prison. Wickman was found guilty of killing Daniel Kuehl in May 2013. Prosecutors said he was looking to steal guns so he could trade them for cash or drugs. Kuehl was strangled to death. Several appeals filed by Wickman have been denied, but one panel did rule that the nine years of extended supervision was too long under Wisconsin statute. That has been adjusted to seven-and-a-half years.
APPLETON, WI- The scene was chaotic in an Outagamie County courtroom as the convicted Fox River Mall shooter was sentenced Tuesday. Eighteen-year-old Dezman Ellis had been found guilty of shooting Jovanni Frausto to death at the mall food court one year ago. The judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Just before victim statements were given one man was ordered out. Some of the anger between the two sides spilled outside. No arrests were announced. Ellis had been charged with first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree recklessly endangering safety for shooting a second victim in an argument over a girl.
WAUSAU, WI- The Marathon County man who accidentally shot his friend to death had entered a guilty plea to a charge of homicide by intoxicated use of a weapon. W-S-A-U reports David Answelmo told investigators his finger slipped as he was checking to see if the handgun he was handling had a round in the chamber. That caused him to pull the trigger, killing 19-year-old Trey Wilcox in June 2019. As part of the plea agreement, the charges Anselmo was facing were reduced. A pre-sentence investigation will be carried out before he is sentenced on a date that hasn’t been scheduled. Anselmo, Wilcox and two other friends were drunk and partying at the time. After the shooting, he left the house without calling 9-1-1 or getting help for his friend. He was arrested when he returned.
GREEN BAY, WI- Police believe the man whose burned body was found near the U-W-Green Bay campus last fall had been killed over an 80-thousand-dollar drug debt. First-degree intentional homicide charges were filed against business owner Pedro A. Santiago-Marquez Wednesday. He is one of three men accused of the death of 36-year-old Jason Mendez-Ramos. Police officers responded to a grass fire report last September. Investigators think Mendez-Ramos was killed somewhere else, brought to the location near campus, and this body was set on fire. A witness says Marquez told him he was going to “pop” the victim.
GREEN BAY, WI- A Brown County judge has sentenced a man found guilty on a charge of first-degree reckless injury to eight years in prison. Stephon Young was arguing with another man at a Green Bay gas station last year when he pulled out a gun and shot the victim. The two men knew each other. The 26-year-old Young was arrested in Chicago a few days after the shooting. The victim’s name and medical condition haven’t been released.
ATLANTA, GA – A federal grand jury has indicted two Georgia residents for allegedly defrauding financial institutions across the country. Banks and credit unions in the Fox Valley and Green Bay areas were among the victims. Prosecutors say 40-year-old Michael Harvey Junior and 31-year-old Shanika Harvey stole checks from Wisconsin mailboxes, changed those checks, and paid other people to cash them. The take amounted to more than 160 thousand dollars in Wisconsin. The Brown County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case.
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