Dennis Brantner was convicted of homicide for the 1990 death of Berit ‘Beri’ Beck. Brantner was discovered as a suspect in 2014 when fingerprints, identified as belonging to Brantner, were identified on items from the van Berit was driving when she was last seen alive.

A Fond du Lac jury deliberated late Friday night to find an Illinois man guilty of killing a 14-month-old boy by stepping on him and seriously injuring his twin brother.

Daniel Griffin, 30, was found guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and two counts of physical abuse of a child intentionally causing great bodily harm. Griffen was later sentenced to prison for 65 years.

Sixteen people have been charged for the distribution of nearly $10 million worth of cocaine in the Fond du Lac area.

The arrests were result of a joint operation between federal, state and local law enforcement.

Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney says the conspiracy stretches from Fond du Lac to Milwaukee to Chicago.

District Attorney Eric Toney helped lead the fight to protect Wisconsin families from out-of-county violent sex offenders by preventing them from being dumped in their communities by other counties. District Attorney Toney and local officials helped accomplish this by working with the legislature and governor to change the law preventing these types of placements.

Up until Monday, there was no real guidance on how Wisconsin would emerge from the COVID-19 “Safer at Home” order. So, Fond du Lac County District Attorney, Eric Toney, started reaching out to entities in the county to create a task force focused on helping the county re-emerge.

A man dubbed the ringleader of a $1 million heroin conspiracy has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.