A man who serves on the Columbia County town of Springvale board pleaded no contest Thursday to misdemeanor charges of filing fraudulent sales tax returns for his auto body business.
Wisconsin man charged in plot to kidnap Whitmer extradited to Michigan
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A Wisconsin man who had been fighting extradition to Michigan to face charges that he plotted against Michigan s governor has dropped his appeal and was in custody in Antrim County on Tuesday.
Jail officials in Wisconsin and Michigan confirmed Tuesday that Brian Higgins, 52, of Wisconsin Dells, was moved late Monday. He was booked in the Antrim County Jail and was then arraigned Tuesday afternoon via video conference for the 86th District Court and sporting a striped jail outfit.
Higgins is one of 14 men charged in the case.
A Wisconsin man charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan s governor has dropped an appeal of his extradition and will be heading east to face charges soon.
Brian Higgins, 52, of Wisconsin Dells, is among more than a dozen men, most from Michigan, charged with conspiracy, supporting terrorism and other counts related to what the FBI calls a thwarted plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and take her to Wisconsin to be tried for treason. The group was upset with restrictions she ordered to fight the spread of COVID-19.
Another Wisconsin man, charged here federally last month with illegal possession of a sniper rifle, reportedly was also around the conspirators but was acting as an informant for the FBI.
JANESVILLE
A $5 million cash bond was set Friday for a Janesville man accused of murdering a woman in a Wisconsin Dells hotel room after assaulting her in Janesville 12 days earlier.
Jeremy L. Mondy, 34, of 2948 Carrousel Lane, No. 5, Janesville, had been released on a signature bond in a Rock County case in which he was accused of strangling and imprisoning the woman Feb. 2.
Mondy was already out on bond in an April 2020 domestic abuse case involving the same woman, and he was ordered to have no contact with the woman in both cases, Columbia County District Attorney Brenda Yaskal said at Fridayâs hearing.