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At about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the Sauk County Sheriff's Office asked the Portage County Sheriff's Office for help in arresting Jeffery E. Miller, 32, in connection with an attempted homicide of a ...
Sauk County Sheriff's Department deputies were patrolling the area the night of Aug. 11 in response to reports of Amish communities in the area experiencing harassment in the form of groups of ...
The Wisconsin Department of Justice indicated an officer was injured during the Sauk County incident. On July 25, Sauk County contacted the Portage County Sheriff's Office regarding Miller and ...
Soils of Sauk County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 849 square miles (2,200 km 2), of which 831 square miles (2,150 km 2) is land and 18 square miles (47 km 2) (2.1%) is water. [22] Pewits Nest is located in Sauk County. Sauk Point is the county's highest point.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Wisconsin.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 529 law enforcement agencies employing 13,730 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.
R. M. Strong was born at Bridport, Vermont, in July 1830.He was educated at the Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Vermont, and moved to Wisconsin in June 1850. [1]He was elected sheriff of Sauk County in the November 1860 election, but resigned on the day he took office, choosing instead to volunteer for service in the Union Army, due to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Each county has a county seat, often a populous or centrally located community, where the county's governmental offices are located. Some of the services provided by the county include: law enforcement, circuit courts, social services, vital records and deed registration, road maintenance, and snow removal. County officials include sheriffs ...
Prairie du Sac was so named because it was in the large Wisconsin River Valley where the Sauk Indians had a large settlement. [7] Although the name of the village dates from the early days of French fur traders, Prairie du Sac was established as a village by D.B. Crocker in 1840, largely as a Yankee-English village, [8] in contrast to its neighbor, Sauk City, which was settled largely by Germans.