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•Arlene M. Blaga•Joseph Robert Hookham•Brent Richard Lowe•Ann Martin•Jacqulyn L. Morgan•Robert J. “Bob” Nordstrom
•James Elliott Paschal•Carol A. “Perky” Perkins•Christine M. Pofahl•Patricia Ann Quade•Donna Jean Saller•George Douglas Schmidt
•Wayne “Sonny” Vogels•Lois Kathryn Wolf•Patricia A. Zdrojewski•Ronald J. Zirk
Offering shelterKris Toledo of Walworth
started rescuing cats
four years ago and left her
job three months ago so
she could help abandoned
animals. Page 3A
Brewers keep hopes aliveHome runs by Mike Moustakas
and Yasmani Grandal helped
Milwaukee to a 5-2 win over host
St. Louis on Saturday, keeping the
Brewers within a game of the Cubs
for an NL wild-card spot. Page 1B
TODAY’S WEATHERHigh 81 | Low 62
Cloudy, warm and humid
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By Frank Schultz
JANESVILLEGeorgie Wilson had never been on
a boat of any kind until Saturday.
During her first day on the water at
Traxler Park, she was one of 20 pad-
dlers who won a heat in Janesville’s
first dragon boat races.
As the victors walked off the dock,
other competitors lined up and
formed a tunnel with their paddles
crossed overhead to welcome them.
Minutes later, Wilson discussed
what surprised her on her first ven-
ture on the water, “boat tipping.”
Wilson learned the importance
of stability in a canoe-like, 46-foot-
long dragon boat, but no boat tipped
over, and it appeared no one fell into
the water during the races. Although
most of the 250-plus competitors got
wet.
“I was so happy about winning.
When they said KANDU Kukulkans
won first place, I was, like, ‘Yeah! Joy!’”
said the 29-year old from Orfordville.
A kukulkan, of course, is a Mayan
feathered serpent deity.
And dragon boat racing comes
from China, where races are held to
celebrate the ancient poet Qu Yuan.
And KANDU is the name of the
local nonprofit organization that has
Dragons on the water
By Frank Schultz
JANESVILLEFormer Rock County
sheriff ’s Deputy Keegan J. Kelly got drunk and assaulted his girl-f r i e n d d u r i n g a trip to W i s c o n -sin Dells in Febru-ary, taunt-
ing her by saying no one would believe her if she reported it.
He had hit her before, the woman told Lake Delton police, and he always played the same song before he did it.
The chorus of the song, “The Red” by the band Chevelle, goes like this: “So lay down/The threat is real/When his sight/Goes red again/Seeing red again/Seeing red again.”
Kelly even had threat-ened her children, the woman told police.
Former Janesville police officer Jose D. Tor-res got drunk and ran into a pole with his 9-year-old son in the car last fall. His pre-liminary breath test regis-tered 0.16, twice the legal
limit.B o t h
incidents l ed to c r imina l c h a r g e s and resig-nations by the offi-cers.
Both led to the officers resigning.
Both shocked the com-munity.
Such instances are rare, but many wondered how these men were allowed to become law enforcement officers with a duty to pro-tect and serve their com-munities, something they failed to do in their private lives.
Chief Deputy Barb Till-man of the sheriff ’s office said every time a deputy or jailer is terminated for misconduct, she goes back to their application mate-rials—did they miss some-thing?
Every time, the answer
is no.
Deep backgroundAnd that’s remarkable
because the application process to become an offi-cer of the law in Janesville and with the sheriff ’s office
Before hiring, local cops face extensive checks. Sometimes it’s not enough
How much is enough?
Photo illustration by Angela Major/[email protected]
By Claire Galofaro and Lindsay Whitehurst
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITYThe pills arrived in thousands
of mailboxes across the country, round and blue, with the markings of pharmaceutical-grade oxycodone stamped into the surface.
Prosecutors would later call them “poison”—counterfeits containing fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid that has written a deadly new chap-ter in the American opioid epidemic. They were shipped from the suburbs of Salt Lake city.
That’s where a
clean-cut, 29-year-
old college dropout
named Aaron Shamo
made himself a mil-
lionaire building a
fentanyl trafficking
empire with not
much more than his
computer and a few
friends.
For three weeks this summer,
those suburban millennials climbed
onto the witness stand at his federal
trial and offered an unprecedented
window into how fentanyl bought
and sold online has transformed the
global drug trade. There was no tes-
timony of gangland murders or any-
thing that a wall at the southern bor-
der might stop. Shamo called him-
self a “white-collar drug dealer,” drew
in co-workers from his time at eBay
and peppered his messages to them
with smiley-face emojis. His attorney
called him a fool; his defense was that
he isn’t smart enough to be a kingpin.
How he and his friends managed to
flood the country with a half-million
fake oxycodone pills reveals the ease
Photos by Angela Major/[email protected] Kerry, a member of the KANDU Industries dragon boat racing team, is greeted by high-fives from competitors after the boat race Saturday at Traxler Park in Janesville.
Michael Blanca, the drummer for the KANDU Industries dragon boat racing team, raises his drum stick in the air after winning a race Saturday.
An empire of deathHow a college dropout built a drug business with a computer and a few friends
Shamo
Kelly
Torres
Turn to DRAGONS on Page 11A
Saturday event employs 46-foot dragon boats
to raise money for KANDU
Turn to FENTANYL on Page 6A
Turn to CHECKS on Page 7A
