A mix of snow, slick roads, and a steady stream of service calls kept law enforcement agencies busy across Shawano County on Sunday, March 15, according to activity reports from the Shawano Police Department and Shawano County Sheriff’s Office.
In the city of Shawano, police handled a variety of calls throughout the day, beginning shortly after midnight with an operating-after-revocation arrest near East Green Bay Street and Woodlawn Drive. A short time later, officers responded to a property damage incident near East Green Bay Street and North Airport Drive after a caller reported a maroon vehicle nearly struck the stoplights.
Police were also called to several welfare checks and assistance calls during the morning and afternoon hours. Those included a medical alert activation on South Main Street, a separate welfare check on East Fifth Street, and a general assist call on North Franklin Street where a man had reportedly fallen and needed help getting back up. Officers also responded to animal concerns on South Sawyer Street after a neighbor reported a dog had been whining for days while its owner had not been seen.
Several traffic-related calls were reported inside the city as well. Shawano officers handled disabled vehicles at multiple intersections along East Green Bay Street, including near Fairview Way, Main Street, and Eberlein Park Drive. Another property damage complaint came in Sunday afternoon at Qualheim’s True Value, where a vehicle was reported stuck on a fire hydrant.
Police also assisted with two fire-related calls Sunday afternoon. One involved an elderly woman on Timber Trail who reported a beeping alarm she could not reach, while another on East Zingler Avenue involved a caller who said he could smell exhaust in his house and wanted help clearing snow from an exhaust pipe.
Among the more notable police calls Sunday evening was a drug complaint at the Haven Hotel on North Airport Drive. According to the dispatch log, an anonymous caller reported possible drug activity involving people who had gotten out of a truck with a broken window and who allegedly smelled of drugs. Officers were dispatched and remained on scene for more than an hour.
The Shawano County Sheriff’s Office saw an especially heavy volume of traffic calls throughout the day, with more than 100 incidents listed in its daily report. A large share of those calls involved non-reportable traffic crashes, slide-offs, and disabled vehicles, many of them along Highway 29, Highway 45, Highway 22, and surrounding county roads.
Some of the busiest areas included stretches of Highway 29 near Banner Road, Highway 45, County Trunk U, Spruce Road, and Cecil. Deputies also responded to crashes and slide-offs in the Bonduel, Pulaski, Wittenberg, Leopolis, Bowler, and Shawano areas. Several callers reported vehicles stuck in traffic lanes, in ditches, or partially blocking roads as conditions worsened.
One of the most serious sheriff’s calls came just after midnight near Highway 160 and Highway 55 in Pulaski, where dispatch records show a personal injury crash was reported with a caller telling authorities, that the car they were in had flipped.
In addition to the traffic workload, deputies also handled alarms, welfare checks, transport calls, a reported vehicle theft on Poplar Road in the Town of Richmond, a disturbance in Wittenberg late Sunday night, and a snowmobile-related complaint on Lake Drive.
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