Overview
- UW–Madison Police say a bystander called about a disturbance at Goodspeed Family Pier just after 4 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, and officers learned a sexual assault had occurred as the victim tried to leave.
- Investigators say the victim and the two suspects met earlier at a bar and walked to the pier before the attack.
- Police arrested 31-year-old Yorfred H. Marcano Gutierrez and 27-year-old Arturo R. Santos Albujas, both of Fitchburg, and booked them into the Dane County Jail.
- Booking records and UWPD describe tentative charges of second-degree sexual assault with force, strangulation and suffocation, battery and false imprisonment, and the Dane County district attorney will review the case.
- The university says the suspects and victim are not affiliated with UW–Madison; the case is expected to proceed through further police investigation, prosecutorial review and possible court proceedings, and the incident has renewed attention to safety near campus waterside areas.