A 23-year-old man was hospitalized Tuesday night after his 16-year-old brother shot him in the arm with a handgun in Sun Prairie, police said.
Police were called to an apartment in the 300 building of the Element on Main apartment complex, 311 Park Circle, at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday for a reported shooting, Lt. Kevin Konopacki said.
Officers found the man with a gunshot wound to his left upper arm.
He was taken to a hospital, where he was stable, Konopacki said.
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The man told officers his brother was the shooter, but was not willing to provide further information.
With the help of the Fond Du Lac County Sheriff’s Department, the 16-year-old was taken into custody during a traffic stop in Fond du Lac County.
The teen was taken to the juvenile jail on a tentative charge of first-degree recklessly endangering safety.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Sun Prairie police at 608-837-7336, or anonymously at 608-837-6300.
Police hope weekend arrests of 'kingpins' will slow burglaries and vehicle thefts

Police hope the arrests of two people over the weekend have “made a dent” in a vehicle theft and burglary spree that’s plagued counties across southern Wisconsin.
Cleaster L. Moon, 24, and Joshua E. Pitts, 17, both of Madison, are suspects in crimes in Madison and Dane County, police said, and both were wanted on warrants after they were charged last week in Waukesha County for burglaries and vehicle thefts that happened in Pewaukee in mid-September, according to a criminal complaint filed there.
Authorities warn of ‘increasingly brazen’ criminals ‘swarming’ neighborhoods after more burglaries, thefts overnight

The area’s plague of burglaries and vehicle thefts in which criminals take advantage of unlocked vehicles and residences is continuing and included two home invasions early Friday, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office said.
In a blunt statement, the Sheriff’s Office said it “cannot stress enough the need for homeowners to be extremely diligent about securing their homes and vehicles. This is a large and organized group of criminals that are becoming increasingly brazen. They are swarming entire neighborhoods in search of easy targets. No area/neighborhood is considered off limits.
“In several recent burglaries throughout the county, firearms have been stolen and there is a high likelihood that some of these thieves may be armed. In addition to locking homes and vehicles, we encourage citizens to keep their outdoor lights on throughout the night and do not leave valuables like wallets, purses and car keys where they are easily accessible.”
1 of 2 suspects in North Side homicide arrested, police say

Madison police have arrested one of two suspects in a homicide Saturday on the city's North Side.
Leearthur L. Taylor, 33, was taken into custody without incident Tuesday morning by Violent Crime Unit detectives, SWAT members and patrol officers after he was located inside a home on Hoard Street on the East Side, police spokesman Joel DeSpain said.
A second suspect, Larence G. Thomas, 37, was still being sought.
Read the full story here, and earlier stories in the homicide here and here.
Madison man with 7 OWI convictions charged with 11 felonies in high-speed fatal crash on East Washington Avenue

A Madison man with seven prior drunken driving convictions was charged Thursday with 11 felonies — two of them homicide charges — for a high-speed, hit-and-run crash in August on East Washington Avenue that killed a Chicago man.
But the lawyer for Jason A. Natcone, 44, said his client wasn’t driving the BMW convertible when the Aug. 8 crash happened in the 1400 block of East Washington Avenue near the Yahara River Bridge, and that another man, who was first tentatively charged by Madison police, instead may have been driving.
Natcone was charged in the complaint with first-degree reckless homicide, homicide by drunken driving, hit-and-run resulting in death, three counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, eighth-offense drunken driving, three counts of drunken driving causing injury and knowingly driving while revoked causing death.
Brendan Dassey asks Tony Evers for pardon or commutation in 'Making a Murderer' case

A man convicted of rape and murder when he was a teenager whose story was documented in the 2015 Netflix series “Making a Murderer” asked Wisconsin’s governor for a pardon or commutation of his life prison sentence on Wednesday.
The request from Brendan Dassey came as his advocates launched yet another attempt to free him, this time outside the court system. His latest appeal was not considered by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Former Meriter nurse pleads guilty to abusing infants in intensive care unit

A former UnityPoint Health-Meriter nurse pleaded guilty Monday to 19 felony counts of abusing or neglecting nine infants in the Madison’s hospital’s newborn intensive care unit, leaving them with injuries including bruising, broken ribs, broken legs and a fractured skull.
Christopher Kaphaem, 44, pleaded guilty to every charge in the criminal complaint filed in September 2018 and, lacking any deal with prosecutors on sentencing, faces a maximum sentence of 148 years in prison and tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
McFarland teacher charged with 4 felonies, including sex assault, for incidents involving 11-year-old student

A McFarland fourth-grade teacher was charged Thursday with four felonies after police learned earlier this year of a suspected inappropriate relationship between the teacher and one of his former students.
A criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court charged Andrew C. Meeks, 35, of Madison, with first-degree sexual assault of a child, child enticement, causing mental harm to a child and exposing a child to harmful descriptions for alleged incidents between January and July involving a boy who is now 12 years old, but was 11 when some of the incidents occurred.
Girl’s photo after ‘creepy’ feeling a key in man’s arrest in Downtown assaults of women, police say

Madison police pointed to public surveillance cameras and an 11-year-old girl who had a “creepy” feeling as key to their arrest Monday night of a 26-year-old man suspected in a series of assaults in the central city.
Luis Ruiz-Ugalde, who has no permanent address, was arrested Downtown by the Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit, Chief Mike Koval announced at a Wednesday press conference.