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4 • Milwaukee County Post • May 12, 2017 Two county men injured when airboat hits tree WAUKESHA — Two Milwaukee County men were among the injured when a Waukesha man drove his airboat into a tree May 4 on the Beaver Dam River. According to a press statement, the Dodge County Sheriff's Office responded at 11:08 p.m. to a reported boat crash on a flooded portion of the Beaver Dam River, north of the Ranch Road boat launch in the Town of Shields. The preliminary investigation shows Erik Joost, 23, of Waukesha, received minor injuries after he drove his 2006 airboat into a tree, causing him to be ejected. Two other passengers, Zachary Azmani, 24 of Hales Corners and Ian Wolfe, 27 of West Allis were also ejected, causing serious but injuries that were not life-threatening. Robert Krueger, 24, of Waukesha was uninjured. Speed and low visibility are believed to be factors in the crash. The men were able to get back into the boat and drive it to the boat launch where responders met them and began treatment, according to the Dodge County Sheriff's Office. Azmani was taken by Watertown paramedics to Aurora Summit Hospital in Oconomowoc. Wolfe was taken by Waterloo EMS to Aurora Medical Center in Summit. The crash remained under investigation by the Dodge County Recreation Patrol and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. WEEK IN REVIEW STATE AND LOCAL STORIES OF INTEREST $81,000 Badger 5 ticket sold in West Allis WEST ALLIS — Someone purchased a ticket at Maas Petroleum at 5930 W. Greenfield Ave. that matched all five numbers in Saturday's Badger 5 drawing to win the night's $81,000 jackpot. Saturday's winning Badger 5 numbers were 3, 14, 28, 29 and 31. The jackpot was reset to $25,000. All lottery winners have 180 days from the drawing to claim their prize. A winner at this prize level must redeem their ticket at the Wisconsin Lottery's Madison or Milwaukee offices or by mail. Three Milwaukee men charged with robbing informant WAUKESHA — Three Milwaukee men have been charged with robbing a Waukesha man who was working as an informant for the Waukesha Police Department and had arranged to buy marijuana from them May 5. According to the criminal complaint, the informant arranged to buy an ounce of mar- ijuana from a person online for $250. He then met the man in the 200 block of North East Avenue, where he was waved into the back of a van. Once inside, he said there were three men, one of whom displayed a gun. He was told to hand over his money, jewelry and watch, which he did, and then he was released from the locked van. Because the van was under surveillance, it was pulled over a short time later and the three men, Elliot Currie, Travonte Moss and Kimani Smith, were arrested. Currie was charged with a misdemeanor count of possession of THC and a Class C felony of armed robbery — party to a crime. Moss and Smith were both charged with a Class C felony of armed robbery — party to a crime. Sheriff 's Office first in state with iris biometric ID MILWAUKEE — The Sheriff's Office announced it will be the first agency in Wisconsin to use iris biometric technology to identify offenders in seconds. The system provides quicker and more accurate identification of offenders locally and nationally. The technology captures the unique features in the human iris and compares those against a database of individuals enrolled in Milwaukee County and by other partici- pating law enforcement agencies across the country, a news release said. Milwaukee teen charged in gun shop burglaries WAUKESHA — A Milwaukee teen was charged Friday for his alleged role in two bur- glaries of a Brookfield gun shop in which two firearms and ammunition were taken last month. William Howell, 17, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court with a count of burglary and a second count of burglary, arming himself with a dangerous weapon. He faces 32.5 years in prison if convicted. A criminal complaint said firearms were reported stolen from the Wisconsin Firearms Training Center, 12730 W. Burleigh Road, on April 9, and six boxes of ammuni- tion were stolen from there April 17. Surveillance video of the suspects in the incident was circulated to the media, which generated tips that led officers to Howell. Howell's father also identified his son on surveillance images, saying, "I can't believe he did that," but that his son was involved in the thefts of three handguns from his home last November, the complaint said. Howell was ordered held on $3,000 cash bail. Sheriff's Office: Girl crashes dad's car after 11-mile chase MILWAUKEE — A chase that began on the South Side with speeds hitting 100 mph ended in a crash and a 15-year-old driver referred to authorities, the Sheriff's Office said. At 2:09 a.m. Saturday, a deputy saw a southbound vehicle on Interstate 43 approaching Howard Avenue without headlights on and deviating from its lane, the Sheriff's Office reported. The driver allegedly didn't stop after an attempt to pull it over and fled on city streets before getting back on I-43 at Loomis Road. Speeds reached 100 mph, and the driv- er crashed into a sign post on the I-94 ramp at Drexel Avenue, ending an 11-mile chase, the Sheriff's Office said. The 15-year-old girl was taken to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin for treatment of injuries. She said she fled because she took her father's car without permission and did- n't want to get into trouble. She was turned over to the Children's Detention Center and faces felony charges of fleeing an officer and operating a vehicle without the owner's consent. Woman arrested after child allegedly drove on her lap MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee woman was arrested for operating while intoxicated and other offenses after a deputy saw an 8-year-old boy steering the car while on her lap, according to the Sheriff's Office. It happened at 2:22 p.m. May 4 at the West Fond du Lac Avenue on-ramp to southbound Highway 145, the deputy said. The boy was crying and told the deputy he didn't want to go to jail. The driver, Carry L. Bernard, 37, who initially refused to cooperate with the deputy, failed field sobriety tests after showing signs of impairment, the Sheriff's Office said. Bernard was arrested for a third OWI — with a minor and second-degree reckless endangering safety, both felonies, as well as operating after revocation of a license and an interlock ignition device violation, both misdemeanors. The child was turned over to Child Protective Services. Submitted photo Three men were injured May 4 after a Waukesha man drove his airboat into a tree in Dodge County. Two of the injured men were from Milwaukee County.

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