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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2017 VOL. 55 NO. 43 www.burnettcountysentinel.com $1.00
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A Burnett County woman’s story told in D.C. Senators work across party lines to battle rising prescription drug prices SEAN DEVLIN EDITOR@BURNETTCOUNTYSENTINEL.COM
Judge Mel Mogen Melissia ‘Mel’ Mogen stands before Chief Judge Scott Needham on July 10 to take her oath of office. On July 24, Mogen will assume the seat vacated by Kenneth Kutz as Burnett County Cicuit Court Judge. Mogen notes Kutz inspired her to become an attorney through his talk to her class when she was a Siren School sixth grader. See story on pg. 17.
2016 Siren shooter makes plea SEAN DEVLIN EDITOR@BURNETTCOUNTYSENTINEL.COM
SIREN—Jack Garcia, 43, of Braham, Minn., the man accused of shooting a Siren man in the leg last year, has plead guilty to 1st-degree recklessly endangering safety, a class F felony. It all began in July of 2016 after Garcia entered a Lilac Lane home through a sliding glass door. The incident occurred just after 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 17. The police report alleges Garcia, 42 at the time, of threatening and pointing the barrel-end of a black semi-automatic handgun at both the victim and victim’s girlfriend’s heads before firing one shot into the victim’s thigh. The report states after the shooting, Garcia took a backpack from the victim’s home and departed, driving a red Cadillac. The victim was eventually transported by medevac helicopter to North Memorial Hospital in the Twin Cities for treatment.
Within one hour of the shooting, Webster Police spotted the red Cadillac near a Webster residence where the backpack was discovered along with methamphetamine and a handgun with a bullet in the chamber along with a magazine containing nine additional bullets. When the authorities arrived at the scene, they noticed a vehicle with a female driver leaving the property. The police report states they later learned the female driver had learned of the shooting, driven to Webster and picked up Garcia on a nearby street. Garcia allegedly laid down in the back seat of the car, out of sight, and Jack Garcia left the scene undetected. The complaint states this driver took Garcia to Clam Dam and dropped him
WEBSTER— In 1979, Diane Whitcraft, at age 28, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). More specifically, Whitcraft suffers from what is called relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), a form of MS which usually occurs in a person in their 20s or 30s. The unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system disrupts communication from brain to body. It can cause a variety of debilitations including walking difficulties, numbness or tingling, spasticity weakness, vision problems, pain, fatigue, balance problems, impaired coordination and more. Remitting relapsing is the most common form of MS; others are primary progressive and secondary progressive. There is no cure. Whitcraft suffers mainly from walking difficulties, impaired coordination, spasticity and weakness which caused her to begin walking with a cane at the age of 33. In 1993, a drug hit the market called Betaseron. Betaseron is a prescription medication used to reduce the number of relapses in people with Whitcraft’s type of MS. Diane began using the drug soon after its introduction. Its annual retail cost was then $11,532.
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“Diane from Webster” and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)
SEE GARCIA, PAGE 6
SEE MS, PAGE 7
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