A New York woman who illegally sold abortion drugs to people in Portage and several other Wisconsin towns was sentenced last week to two years probation and fined $10,000, authorities said.
On March 20, Urusla Wing, 42, pleaded guilty to one count in an indictment charging him with conspiracy to defraud the Food and Drug Administration, Postal Service and Customs and Privacy United States borders.
The indictment alleged that Wing operated a blog called “The Macrobiotic Stoner”, with a secret page called “My Secret Bodega”, where she sold foreign-sourced versions of mifepristone and misoprostol from India that were not not approved by the FDA for use in the United States, according to the office of Scott Blader, US Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
Wing admitted when she pleaded guilty that she operated a bogus jewelry business called Fatima’s Bead Basket to hide her illegal conduct, and that she inserted a necklace or other piece of jewelry into the shipping envelope to serve as a coverage of the goods sent to the customer. She then packed the mislabeled prescription drugs in a smaller package that was in a hidden panel and taped inside the shipping envelope. Wing also disguised the nature of the item purchased by listing the names of jewelry products on the invoice.
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Wing also admitted that she created a second fake online jewelry business called Morocco International and a fake merchant processing portal to use as a cover to sell the mislabeled prescription drugs on her secret page. By creating this bogus merchant processing portal, Wing allowed its Macrobiotic Stoner customers to pay for mislabeled drugs using their credit cards, with sales appearing in the merchant account as jewelry, not mifepristone or misoprostol.
The FDA allows drugs to be prescribed by a licensed physician, dispensed by a pharmacist, and administered in a healthcare facility under the supervision of a healthcare professional. Wing did not have a license to sell or ship the drugs.
U.S. District Judge James Peterson also ordered Wing to forfeit $61,753, which was the cost of the mifepristone and misoprostol pills Wing sold from 2016 to 2018.
At his sentencing, Peterson said his conduct created danger to the public in two ways. He allowed people to obtain the drugs, including a Marathon County man who allegedly used them in an attempt to trick his girlfriend into aborting her 120-day pregnancy without her knowledge or consent, resulting in resulted in the man being charged in Marathon County with attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child.
Wing also could not guarantee the safety of the product it distributed, Peterson said.
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Madison police are investigating a possible hate crime after a woman says she was burned by lighter fluid
Madison police are investigating a possible hate crime after a A woman said she was doused with lighter fluid and set on fire while at a red light early Wednesday.
Althea Bernstein, an 18-year-old biracial woman, told police she stopped her vehicle at the intersection of West Gorham Street and State Street around 1 a.m. when she was approached by four white men, including one shouted a racial epithet.
At the time, Madison police were in a standoff in another part of downtown with protesters after some of them tore down two statues, assaulted a state senator and threw an explosive device into the City-County Building.
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No additional probation or jail ordered for teen who accidentally shot friend
Dane County Circuit Judge John Hyland said Kennedy L. DeNoble, 18, of Sun Prairie, who was 17 when she shot Gregory S. Hampton Jr. while he was playing with his gun in his Madison apartment, would likely not receive probation supervision as wanted by Assistant District Attorney Dan Hess. Hess had also requested six months in prison as a condition of DeNoble’s probation.
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Officials make arrests, file charges related to unrest rocking downtown Madison
Prosecutors filed several charges Friday related to the recent downtown unrest, including against a Madison activist whose arrest on Tuesday sparked a night of violence and vandalism at the state Capitol.
Devonere Johnson, also known as Yeshua Musa, was charged with extortion in U.S. District Court in Madison for allegedly demanding cash and free food and drink in return for sparing businesses from downtown vandalism.
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Johnson was arrested following a scuffle with Madison police outside the Coopers Tavern in Capitol Square after he brought a baseball bat and a megaphone into the restaurant and yelled at customers.
His arrest sparked a violent and destructive night of civil unrest in which protesters tore down statues depicting Wisconsin’s “Forward” motto and a Union Civil War colonel at the state Capitol, have assaulted a state senator and started a small fire in the City-County Building.
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UPDATE: 3 injured in 5 shootings in Madison, Sun Prairie, police say
Police said they determined a a third person was injured in five shootings in Madison and Sun Prairie from Wednesday afternoon to early Thursday morning.
The series of shootings began around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, with officers called to the area from Third Avenue to Center Street on the South Side of Madison to reports of gunshots, the Madison Police Lt. said. Harrison Zanders in a statement.
Officers were advised that one person had been shot but had left the scene. Shortly after, police learned that a man in his 20s had arrived at a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds that were not life threatening, Zanders said.
A woman jumps from the Beltline Bridge into the Yahara River after a clash with police
A 30-year-old woman pulled over on the side of the Beltline Highway around 1:15 a.m. Saturday and jumped into the Yahara River after a long confrontation with the police.
A Monona police officer patrolling the Beltline and saw the woman’s vehicle on a shoulder of the freeway and pulled over to help because he believed it was disabled, according to a new statement from the police department. of Monona.
She had stopped at the Yahara River Bridge, which crosses the river near where it joins Lake Waubesa.
Police arrest 19-year-old woman for looting and damaging businesses on State Street
A young woman was arrested on Friday morning for allegedly looting and vandalism of businesses on State Street after protests in Madison on the night of May 30, police say.
Gabrielle M. Kokesh, 19, of Waunakee, is charged with involvement in the looting of August, a clothing retailer at 414 State St., according to a Madison Police Department news release. She is also accused of kicking a Power Nine Games window at 341 State St., the act of which was allegedly caught on camera.
Kokesh was sentenced to Dane County Jail for burglary and criminal damage to property.
2 people die in fire accident while fleeing police stop in Sun Prairie, authorities say
two people were killed in a fire accident while fleeing a police stop in Sun Prairie on Friday morning, authorities said.
The state Department of Justice’s Criminal Investigations Division said in a statement that it is investigating the officer deaths with the Dane County Sheriff’s Office.
Sun Prairie Police carried out a traffic stop on Beech Street near Davison Drive and as police approached the stopped vehicle on foot it drove off at high speed, crashed and burst into flames at approximately three blocks on Ruby Lane near the Main Street intersection. , said DCI.
Madison man arrested after Madison woman died after apparently jumping from moving vehicle, authorities say
A Madison man was arrested on a provisional drunk driving charge after a A Madison woman died after apparently jumping out of a vehicle he was driving early Sunday morning in Columbia County, authorities said.
Columbia County Sheriff Roger Brandner said in a statement he received a 911 call around 4 a.m. that a woman had jumped from a moving vehicle near Highway N9371 AA in the town of Lewiston.
As deputies made their way to that location, they received new information that the woman was being transported by private vehicle to Divine Savior Hospital in Portage, Brandner said.
