Last Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 19 traffic stops and 48 security checks. There were six calls involving cars hitting deer. Other activity throughout the week was limited and very minor, most likely due to the sharp dip in temperatures across the region.
Read MoreLast Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 60 traffic stops and 75 security checks. There were six calls involving cars hitting deer. On Saturday, deputies were dispatched to the Town of Harrison for the report of a snowmobile crash with injuries near Hummingbird Lane on Pine Lake Rd. As they arrived on scene deputies spoke with other parties involved who did not actually witness the crash, and the 61-yr-old Gleason man who was driving the sled but had no recollection of the event. Observation at the scene led deputies…
Read MoreLast Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 36 traffic stops and 72 security checks. There were three calls involving cars hitting deer. With the sleet, rain and icy conditions, deputies were kept busy attending to the public. Throughout the week there were 36 reports of vehicles in the ditch.
Read MoreLast Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 24 traffic stops and 54 security checks. There were five calls involving cars hitting deer. On Monday January 29th, deputies were dispatched to Pope Rd in the Town of Merrill regarding a disturbance in progress. A 36-yr-old Merrill woman attempted to take her 16-year-old son’s phone away from him after confronting him about his behavior, and he proceeded to strike her. The son left the scene before deputies arrived, but was located soon thereafter and taken into custody, then transported to the…
Read MoreLast Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 12 traffic stops and 23 security checks. There were eight calls involving cars hitting deer. On Thanksgiving Day, deputies responded to a report that a vehicle had rolled and rested upside down in the Prairie River in the Town of Russell, resulting in minor injuries to the 51-yr-old male driver from Gleason. The man told deputies he was driving southbound on Prairie Forks Drive and lost control of his vehicle on slippery roads, striking a bridge embankment then going into a roll and…
Read MoreLast Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 61 traffic stops and 58 security checks. There were twelve calls involving cars hitting deer. On Friday, a complaint was received for a reckless driver traveling Northbound on US Highway 51 near the 216 mile marker in the Township of Merrill. The vehicle had been observed weaving all over the road. Upon locating the suspect vehicle, the deputy conducted a traffic stop and observed signs of impairment as he made contact with the 19-yr-old male driver from Rhinelander. The driver agreed to…
Read MoreLast Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 33 traffic stops and 26 security checks. There were 21 calls involving cars hitting deer. On Sunday deputies were dispatched to the area near the 219MM of USH 51 regarding the report of a car crash with injuries. As they arrived on the scene, deputies discovered two separate crashes had occurred. The crash that was originally reported was found to be without injuries, however the second crash did result in the driver and passenger sustaining injuries, and both were transported by ambulance to…
Read MoreLast Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 47 traffic stops and 44 security checks. There were 14 calls involving cars hitting deer. On Wednesday a deputy on patrol in the Town of Merrill was traveling N/B on STH 17 near Norwegian Rd, following a vehicle traveling below the speed limit and weaving in the travel lane. After conducting a traffic stop of the vehicle, the deputy made contact with the 65-yr-old female driver from Merrill and noticed signs of impairment. The driver agreed to complete some sobriety testing and as…
Read MoreLast Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 30 traffic stops and 15 security checks. There were 18 calls involving cars hitting deer. On Sunday a complaint was received regarding a reckless driver traveling all over the road on USH 51 near CTH S in the Town of Skanawan. A deputy who was sent to the area located a car matching the suspect vehicle, and followed it for a short time noticing similar driving patterns. The deputy completed a traffic stop, and while speaking with the 19-yr-old male driver noticed signs…
Read MoreLast Week, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted 53 traffic stops and 26 security checks. There were 19 calls involving cars hitting deer. On Sunday a deputy on patrol stopped a vehicle for speeding on Joe Snow and Mill Rds in the Town of Scott. While speaking with the 39-yr-old male driver from Merrill, the deputy noticed signs of impairment. The driver agreed to sobriety testing, and as a result of those tests was arrested for OWI first offense, and also a second offense of operating without a license for 3…
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