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THE AWARD WINNING OFFICIAL LEGAL NEWSPAPER OF JUNEAU COUNTY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Help us find this missing teen
Father apprehended, child returned safe I
Alannah Lancaster Seventeen year old Alannah Lancaster of Mauston was reported as a runaway to the Mauston and Reedsburg Police Departments on the weekend of January 19. According to her mother, Tamara Lancaster, no foul play is suspected. The mother also stated that Alannah does have medication she is required to take and that she hasn't taken it in three weeks. The mother believes this may be contributing to the decisions she is currently making which are said to be a real concern to her family and friends. "She has blocked family and some friends from her Facebook, but it has been reported that she has been seen online several times. It would be appreciated if anybody that has chatted with her let the police and/or her family know that she is at least safe, even if they have no information leading to her exact whereabouts," stated her mother. Alannah has ties to both the Mauston and Reedsburg areas. If you have any information on Alannah's whereabouts please contact the Mauston Police Department at 847-6363.
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BY EVA MARIE WOYWOD
n court Monday afternoon Kevin J. Tadder, 35 from Altoona, appeared for a bond hearing on a felony charge of interference with custody beyond visitation. Tadder was in the custody of the Juneau County Sheriff's Department and appeared via video conferencing from the jail. Appearing on behalf of the State of Wisconsin was Juneau County District Attorney Michael Solovey. Presiding over the hearing was Judge Paul Curran. Solovey requested that Tadder be placed on a $2,500 cash bond, a bond he claimed was necessary due to the nature of the charge and Tadder's past arrest record and conviction history. Solovey stated that Tadder kept his two year old son away from the mother since at least September of last year and would not disclose the location of the pair to her. Solovey went on to state that Tadder "played games" with law enforcement on their attempts to retrieve the child. Tadder claimed the accusations were not true and Kevin Tadder appeared via video conference during then proceeded to state that he was only keeping his his Monday bond hearing. son safe from a "pill popping and alcoholic mother." Judge Curran cautioned Tadder that he was not being ence of child custody beyond visitation. While online represented in the bond hearing by an attorney and that court records show that the most recent addresses for anything he stated could be used against him in future Tadder in 2012 were in Sparta and Osseo, Wisconsin, the paperwork for the January 23rd charge listed an address hearings. Tadder continued with his comments including claim- in Altoona, Wisconsin. According to the mother she only became aware of an ing that he had been living in Altoona since May of last Altoona address in January of this year and after doing year. Judge Curran ruled that Tadder be placed on a $2,500 her own research into his location by calling a child supcash bond and is not to have contact with the mother of port worker. The mother goes on to state that the worker the child nor the child. Later that same evening Tadder would not release the Altoona address to the mother so she requested that the worker phone the Mauston Police posted bond and was released from custody. Department to inform them so that a child welfare check Background The charge against Tadder stems from a complaint could be performed. On January 31, 2013 the Altoona Chief of Police issued by the child's mother that her son was missing and that Tadder was not residing in Sparta where she also released a press release to media with information that claimed was where he informed her that he was. The Tadder had been apprehended earlier that same day and mother has reported to the Messenger that she attempted was in custody. In his release he stated that the Altoona to report her child as missing to the Mauston Police Police Department worked in cooperation with the Department since September of last year and after she Mauston Police Department and the Juneau County received a ruling from a family law judge that Tadder was Sheriff's Department. Last Friday the Messenger interviewed Juneau County to turn over the child to her on September 27 at Love's Sheriff Brent Oleson and Detective Ben Goehring. Gas Station in Oakdale, WI. Law enforcement, according to the mother, told her the Detective Goehring stated that he was assigned to assist matter was a custody issue and needed to be handled in on the case earlier that week on Wednesday which would have been one day prior to Tadder being apprehended. the family court system. Detective Goehring stated that as a trained investigator The mother claims it was due to her persistence that the Mauston Police Department had her sign a statement on for the sheriff's department he has investigative techniques and tools available to him that perhaps the January 2, 2013 that her child was missing. According to a press release from Mauston Police Mauston Police did not have. Contact was made with the Chief Mark Messer, the two year old child was entered Altoona Police Department on the following day, which into a national data base for law enforcement as a missing was the same day Tadder was apprehended. Altoona Chief of Police released to the Messenger the child on January 21, 2013. That action came after the Messenger made a call earlier the same day to inquire incident reports detailing what occurred prior to Tadder being apprehended and then when he was captured. about the status of the missing child report. See TADDER, page 3 Tadder was charged on January 23, 2012 with interfer-