A town of Middleton woman was arrested Thursday afternoon on a homicide warrant out of Wagoner County, Oklahoma, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office said.
Detectives with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office arrested Kore D. Adams, 59, after the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office asked for help identifying and locating her, Dane County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Elise Schaffer said.
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The felony warrant out of Wagoner County is for first-degree murder, deliberate intent and desecration of a corpse.
Adams was taken into custody during a traffic stop Thursday afternoon and was being held at the Dane County Jail.
Schaffer said the female homicide victim was reported missing in the spring of 2020. It was her understanding that Adams and the victim were roommates, Schaffer said.
According to a report by the Tulsa World in June, Adams was arrested in connection with the disappearance of roommate Talina Galloway. Adams had reported Galloway missing to Wagoner County law enforcement in mid-April.
The Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office arrested Adams in June on several complaints including carrying or being in possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, destroying evidence and obstruction of investigation. Her bond was set at $150,000.
It was unclear Thursday when the missing person case became a homicide investigation.
Teen father charged in shooting death of Albany infant, Wisconsin connections to D.C. insurrection top recent crime news
Teen father charged in shooting death of Albany infant, Wisconsin connections to D.C. insurrection top recent crime news
Albany newborn died from gunshot wounds, teen father charged with homicide
A 16-year-old Albany boy told police on Sunday he abandoned his newborn infant daughter, just born to his girlfriend at her home, in a wooded area in Albany, leaving her to die of exposure in the cold.
But according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday, when police found the infant on Sunday they discovered she had been shot twice in the head. Logan T. Kruckenburg-Anderson admitted he had shot her, the complaint states.
Kruckenberg-Anderson, who was arrested Sunday, was charged Tuesday with first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. Under state law, anyone age 10 and older is charged automatically as an adult when facing a charge of first-degree intentional homicide.
Green County authorities investigating death of newborn baby as homicide
Green County authorities are now investigating the death of a newborn baby as a homicide, the state Department of Justice said Monday.
A “person of interest” was taken into custody, DOJ said. The Albany Police Department is leading the investigation.
The baby girl, born on Tuesday at a residence in the village of Albany, was reported missing Saturday and found dead on Sunday.
Authorities are seeking help identifying a person who was seen walking in Albany on Tuesday.
Eau Claire man arrested in attack on US Capitol
A Wisconsin man was arrested Tuesday in Eau Claire for being part of the mob that breached the U.S. Capitol last week as Congress was certifying Electoral College votes giving Joe Biden the presidency.
Kevin Daniel Loftus, 52, of Eau Claire, faces two federal misdemeanors for knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds.
Madison native says she found pipe bomb near RNC office in D.C. by 'sheer luck'
A little over an hour before the U.S. Capitol was stormed by rioters Jan. 6, Madison native Karlin Younger was at her home in Washington, D.C. — blocks away from what would soon become the historic insurrection.
She would soon discover one of the first signs of the day taking a dangerous turn.
“It just seemed like a normal Wednesday,” recalled Younger, who was in the midst of doing laundry. “I’m holding a wet sweater. How could I possibly be looking at a bomb?”
Wisconsin DOC reveals which prisons have had COVID-19 deaths for first time
For the first time Monday, the state Department of Corrections revealed which state prisons have had COVID-19-related inmate deaths after refusing for months to disclose that information.
DOC had previously reported only a running total of COVID-19 deaths with no information on where they happened.
So far, 12 of DOC’s 36 adult correctional facilities have had at least one death from COVID-19. A total of 25 inmates have died.
Mineral Point man drives vehicle into building in Darlington for 2nd time, police say
A Mineral Point man faces multiple charges after driving a vehicle into a building in Darlington for the second time, police reported.
Police were dispatched to a report of a hit-and-run crash at Piggly Wiggly Plaza shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Darlington Police Chief Jason King said in a statement.
Witnesses told police a burgundy Ford pickup truck struck the building, causing significant damage, and then fled the scene. Officers located the truck on Main Street and stopped it, King said.
Madison man arrested for heroin possession, 4th OWI since Dec. 7, police say
A Madison man was arrested for operating while intoxicated for the fourth time since Dec. 7, Madison police reported.
William C. Maysack, 36, was arrested for OWI on Dec. 7, 9 and 22, and Tuesday, with all four offenses considered first offenses on arrest since none have made it through the court system, police spokesman Tyler Grigg said.
At about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Maysack was found asleep in the driver's seat of a stolen Subaru with his foot on the brake at the intersection of Cottage Grove Road and Atwood Avenue on the Far East Side, Grigg said in a report.
7 charged in months-long rash of burglaries, vehicle thefts and identity thefts
Seven people, all but one of them teenagers, were charged this week in a sprawling 49-page criminal complaint containing 78 criminal counts, most of them felonies, for their alleged involvement in a series of home burglaries, vehicle thefts and other alleged crimes in the Madison area.
The complaint lays out events over a nearly three-month period, between Aug. 11 and Nov. 9, that also included the use of stolen credit cards and ATM cards to make large purchases. Police said members of the group stole vehicles left running by their owners and by finding vehicle keys inside homes.
Sexual relationship with minor leads to 96 months in federal prison for Madison man also convicted of shooting
A sexual relationship with a minor led to a child pornography conviction and a 96-month federal prison sentence for a Madison man, who also was convicted in a separate shooting case, the office of U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader reported.
Diorian Smith, 30, was sentenced Wednesday by federal Judge James D. Peterson for possessing child pornography to the 96 months in prison plus 20 years of supervised release, Blader said in a statement.
Smith was involved in a shooting that injured a woman on the West Side of Madison on Nov. 19, 2018, and while interviewing Smith regarding the shooting, authorities learned that he was involved in a sexual relationship with a minor and possessed pornographic images of her, Blader said.
Riders evacuate Metro Transit bus after man threatens to detonate bomb, Madison police say
Riders evacuated a Metro Transit bus on Thursday morning after a man threatened to detonate a bomb, Madison police reported.
Officers were called to the bus near East Washington Avenue and North Street about 8:45 a.m. on a report of a 48-year-old man causing a disturbance by yelling that he had a bomb and was "going to detonate it," police spokesman Tyler Grigg said in a statement.
Shanzeh Ahmad | Wisconsin State Journal
Shanzeh Ahmad is a general assignment reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal. She joined the paper in 2019 after getting a master's degree in journalism and public affairs from American University in Washington, D.C.
