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    MILWAUKEE (WISN) — U.S. Marshals swarmed a house near 28th and Wright streets Monday afternoon and arrested 37-year-old John Luckett. Prosecutors say Luckett had drugs inside the Milwaukee County Jail in May 2025, and he’s charged with giving them to his cellmate, who later overdosed and died.

That cellmate, 33-year-old Gabriel Muniz-Jimenez, died of an overdose after he was found unresponsive in his cell on May 21, 2025. Prosecutors say he had fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in his system.

Luckett was charged in May 2025 with having drugs inside the jail, on top of the gun charges that sent him to jail in the first place. Prosecutors filed the reckless homicide charge in January, but didn’t arrest Luckett until Monday.

Muniz-Jimenez was in custody since April 2024 for possession of methamphetamine. His criminal complaint says he told officers unknown people had been after him for a year, but no one believed him.

“The defendant then told officers he had illegal street drugs and he wanted to be arrested so he could be taken to a safe place,” Muniz-Jimenez’s complaint reads.

His sister, Cassandra Jimenez, tells WISN 12 News her brother struggled with mental health issues and used drugs to cope.

“It doesn’t matter if my brother passed away from an overdose,” she said. “He was a good person.”

She questions how drugs got into the jail in the first place.

“Milwaukee County Jail has to check everyone,” she said. “How is it possible that my brother passed away in jail for drugs? It’s not making any sense to me.”

A criminal complaint for Luckett says West Allis Police searched him on May 20, 2025. When he got to the jail, he went through a metal detector, pat-down, and a body scan.

“… if the baggies of drugs were tucked well into the genital area or swallowed…” the complaint reads, saying the bags would be difficult to detect.

The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to several questions or an interview, as of 5 p.m. Tuesday. WISN 12 News asked for an interview, why the drugs were not caught, if MCSO conducted an internal investigation, if any policies changed, and if any deputies were reprimanded.

The West Allis Police Department said it searched him twice, in his underwear, during his arrest on May 20, 2025.

“These searches, as well as the circumstances of Luckett’s arrest, did not lead any WAPD member to request the permission of a supervisor to conduct a strip search of Luckett,” said Deputy Chief Robert Fletcher via email. “The WAPD does not conduct strip searches on all persons arrested for felonies.”

Fletcher says West Allis Police did not reprimand or discipline any officers because “… there was no basis to believe an improper search was conducted.”

“He was so kind, and fun and very loving,” said Jimenez, talking about her brother. “He always cared about other people.”

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    NEWCASTLE, Okla. (KOCO) — A wildfire was causing heavy smoke and led to evacuations near Newcastle on Tuesday afternoon as crews worked to battle the flames.

The fire was burning near NW 24th Street and North Council Road. McClain County Undersheriff James Goins said NW 24th Street was closed, and evacuations were ordered in the area.

About eight to 10 homes were evacuated south of NW 24th Street and west of Highway 76, which is also Council Road. The Newcastle police chief said it wasn’t clear what caused the fire.

These evacuations were ordered at about 4:30 p.m. Residents have since been allowed to return to their homes.

On the scene, heavy smoke was coming from the grassy area.

A Newcastle fire captain told KOCO on the scene that there did not appear to be any injuries. It was not clear if any structures were damaged.

As of 9 p.m., fire crews were managing small hotspots to make sure it does not reignite.

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By Izzy Fonfara Drewel

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    PAPILLION, Neb. (KETV) — The Papillion Municipal Code could see some updates in September.

“We more clarified the language, tightened up the language so that it’s easier to interpret,” Trenton Albers, Papillion’s communications director, said.

Albers said the amendment of Chapter 85 focuses on the difference between a potentially dangerous and a dangerous dog.

“A potentially dangerous dog is a dog that has inflicted damage that doesn’t require medical attention,” Albers said.

On the other hand, a dangerous dog has hurt another person or animal to the point that they need medical attention. Previously, the city’s court managed all designations, but should the amendments be approved, those would instead be decided by the Nebraska Humane Society.

“If a resident wanted to make an appeal of that designation, now they will appeal to the humane society first,” Albers said.

He also said the city has wanted to update the ordinance for a while, especially after it was put in the spotlight in 2025.

“We had an incident about a year ago where a dog attacked another dog, and it just shoed some of the difficulties in interpreting our ordinance,” Albers said.

The changes would also ban the use of leg traps within the city. They had previously been allowed for wild animals, but the city has deemed them inhumane. Additionally, all Class IV felonies referenced in Chapter 85 would instead become Class I misdemeanors.

The ordinance will be up for public debate at the next city council meeting on Aug. 18.

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By Megan De Mar

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    CHICAGO (WBBM) — A South Holland woman said she was left high and dry after paying thousands of dollars to have her swimming pool fixed, only for the contractor to vanish.

Venus Scott is one of more than a dozen homeowners who said they were taken by the same man using different names. The pattern goes back more than a decade.

Scott said she’s happy with her backyard pool oasis now, but it took more than a year to be able to swim in it.

“All of this had to be redone. It’s a whole brand hew liner that was put in,” she said.

When she bought the house and pool as is, she knew she’d have to put some money in to restore it.

She brought in two companies for quotes and “Sunlife Swimming Pool Care” based in Joliet came in way below the competitor.

A man named Brian McIntosh came to her South Holland home last year, collected a $1,000 deposit, and said his crew would be back soon to start the work.

But then, the crew missed two appointments in a row. In the meantime, she was required to pay more.

The next time, McIntosh came with several bottles of chlorine.

“They poured maybe about six bottles of chlorine for algae inside the pool, and left it all just sitting right here. We had to clean it up,” Scott said.

McIntosh said he’d be back to start the job.

“Of course, that never happened. I never saw them again,” Scott said.

She sent them a total of $5,425, and the only work they did was pour chlorine into the pool.

After nearly a year of trying to get a refund, Scott ended up paying another company $11,000 to actually finish the job, and she learned that the cheap “liner patching” that SunLife promised her wasn’t even possible.

“So, it was no way they could have fixed it for that amount. So, I feel like it was a scam all along,” Scott said.

She went online and saw review after review from homeowners who said they were also left high and dry.

It turned out the man who came to her house wasn’t Brian McIntosh, it was a man named David Sroge, and CBS News Chicago knows his name well.

He’s the name-changing contractor who was at the center of Investigator Dave Savini’s story in 2015.

Sroge was sent to prison for a year in 2016 for home repair fraud in Cook County.

Before that, Sroge had a 2012 conviction in Indiana where police said he took $9,000 from a senior citizen for work he did not do.

In May 2026, a warrant was issued for his arrest in Will County. He also has an active warrant in Kane County as well as countless civil cases against him in Illinois and Northwest Indiana.

“How was it possible for this to continue to go on?” Scott said.

Sroge also is named in at least nine complaints submitted to the Illinois Attorney General’s office over the last few years, and each one recounts the same story – thousands of dollars paid and no services rendered before Sroge disappeared.

And as police are currently searching for Sroge, CBS News Chicago hasn’t been able to find him either.

Scott said Sroge contacted her using four different phone numbers, but CBS News Chicago could not reach him at any of those numbers.

In response to an email to SunLife, someone claiming to be Susan Hanover assured “a full resolution.” She even provided another email address and phone number to try, but CBS News Chicago got no response.

As a result of reaching out, Scott said someone from SunLife contacted her offering a refund, but then ghosted her again.

She said she’s not holding her breath for a refund, but she’s speaking out for another reason.

“If I can stop another family from going through that, that would be great,” she said.

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    JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — Opponents of Missouri’s new congressional map sued Secretary of State Denny Hoskins on late Tuesday night, hours after he rejected their referendum petition as unconstitutional.

Richard von Glahn, who is the executive director of People Not Politicians, filed the lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Court.

The lawsuit asks a judge to reverse Hoskins’ decision, declare the referendum legally sufficient and block the state from using the new congressional districts while the case is pending.

Hoskins announced earlier Tuesday that the referendum was insufficient because, in his view, Missouri’s constitution does not allow voters to challenge congressional redistricting through the referendum process.

He said the number of signatures, which People Not Politicians estimated at 300,000, submitted was irrelevant.

“At issue is not the number of signatures turned into the challenge the new congressional map, but the fact that the referendum itself is null and void by virtue of the fact that it is unconstitutional,” Hoskins said. “Therefore, House Bill 1, the Missouri First Map, continues to be the law of the land.”

Hoskins said he acted on legal advice from Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway.

Meanwhile, the lawsuit argues Missouri’s constitution allows referendums on any law except emergency legislation and certain appropriations bills.

It contends House Bill 1, which is the ‘Missouri First’ congressional map signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe in 2025, does not fall under those exceptions.

It also makes reference of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Moore v. Harper, arguing congressional redistricting remains subject to a state’s normal lawmaking process, including referendums where state law allows.

The new congressional map, which was in place for Tuesday’s primary, divided Kansas City into three separate districts.

Should the map be overturned, thousands of voters in the state could be voting in a different district in November’s general election.

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    CHICAGO (WBBM) — A 61-year-old Chicago nurse has filed a lawsuit against two private security companies, after she said she was seriously hurt by a fare dodger at a CTA station on her way to work last year.

Surveillance video shows the nurse on her bike approaching accessible fare gate at the 95th Street terminal on the Red Line last summer. Seconds later, as a man tried to walk through the gate without paying, she started to close the gate and he forced it open, knocking her to the ground.

“He bullrushes her, knocks her to the ground, breaks her leg,” said the nurse’s attorney, Ken Hoffman.

Now, the nurse is suing Action K-9 Security Inc. and First American Security Inc. Hoffman claims the two private security companies contracted by the CTA to deter fare evasion and monitor station entrances failed to do their jobs.

“What the video shows is four people not paying attention, not doing their job,” he said. “To think we’re paying a private security close to $50 million to not do their job was really disappointing.”

In a court filing, attorneys for the security companies accused the injured nurse of assault and battery when she tried closing the gate on the fare evader, writing that she “took the law into her own hands in attempting to physically prevent entry onto the CTA by the tailgating assailant in contravention of her own safety.”

Emails provided to CBS News Chicago showed the nurse warned the CTA years ago of the dangers gate jumpers posed to paying customers.

“Chicagoans should be upset. I just want the private security companies to do their job they’re being paid to do,” Hoffman said.

The CTA was originally named as a defendant in the complaint but was later dismissed under statutory immunity. The fare dodger from the video has not been identified.

A spokesperson for Action K-9 said the company denies the allegations against them:

“While we do not comment on pending litigation, we categorically deny the allegations and provide that the allegations being reported do not accurately represent all of the facts. We have denied the allegations, continue to do so and will defend the allegations in court. Every day, millions of citizens travel safely through the City of Chicago, in large part due to the security we provide.”

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