The Rock County Sheriff’s Office said it spotted the illicit glove toss on Aug. 21 after jail staff reported that a black SUV had arrived on the south side of the jail around 5:09 p.m. and the passenger threw a blue latex glove from the SUV toward the trash compactor area.
A former ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ teacher already under criminal charges of possessing child pornography and sharing nude photos of another adult, is in trouble again — this time after police say he wandered into a youth locker room where kids were undressed at the Woodman's Sports and Recreation Center.
Rock County and a third-party medical contractor face a federal civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit over a Rock County jail inmate whose attorney says he died in the hospital after he got increasingly ill with pneumonia while in jail early last year.
A ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ man faces felony gun charges after Rock County jail officers found a handgun in his coat while he was being booked on intoxicated driving after he wiped out on his motorcycle on ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½'s south side.
JANESVILLE — A 26-year-old man is facing charges of repeated sexual assault of a child he once babysat in ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½.
JANESVILLE – Former Rock County Jail inmate Matthew Kinder has served time for stealing from his employer to sustain his cocaine addiction, and for theft and burglary.
JANESVILLE – More than a year after an inmate died at the Rock County Jail, on the same night another inmate allegedly brought fentanyl and other drugs into the jail, her cause of death remain unreleased.
JANESVILLE – Two years after ground was broken in 2022, expansion and remodeling of the Rock County Sheriff’s Office on Hwy. 14 in ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ is expected to be completed by summer.
JANESVILLE – The Rock County Jail Chaplaincy has been serving the community for nearly 50 years, helping provide holiday gifts for the children of Rock County Jail inmates.
