An Appleton woman will spend nine months in jail for trying to extort $500,000 from an upscale restaurant. Debbie Miller planted a rat in her lunch back in April 2008, before asking for the money in exchange for keeping quiet about the incident. She threatened to alert the media if the money wasn't paid. An investigation determined that it was a domestic white rat that had been cooked in a microwave. The restaurant doesn't use microwaves.
A Schofield man who fell of the top of a van in Rib Mountain has died.
The Marathon County Medical Examiner's Office says Thursday that 33-year-old Matthew Fitzwater died of blunt force trauma to the head and neck. WSAW reports Fitzwater and another person were carrying a box spring and mattress on top of the van on Wednesday afternoon when the ropes fastening them down came undone.
Authorities say Fitzwater tried to sit on top of the mattresses to hold them down, but he was blown off and hit his head on the pavement.
Police have arrested a 33-year-old Appleton man, who last month reported he was the victim of a robbery and stabbing near a tavern, in connection with filing a false report.
The man, Jeremy J. Stewart, led police to think someone he did not know had robbed his wallet and then stabbed him in the abdomen near 1700 E. Wisconsin Ave. Appleton police Sgt. Pat DeWall said an arrest report has been forwarded to the Outagamie County District Attorney’s office.
“There was no robbery. There was no stranger-on-stranger crime, or anything like that. We’d like to put the public’s mind at ease,” DeWall said
