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Police Chief: Superior Officer Arrested In Fatal Crash

15 July 2022


Superior, Wisconsin, police officer Greg 'Burp' Swanson

According to the Superior Police Department, a fatal crash occurred involving one of it’s officers who was allegedly intoxicated. In a press release, Police Chief Nicholas Alexander said that around 1:15 Friday morning a severe crash happened in the 5200 Block of East 2nd Street. The vehicles were heading northbound when a rear end crash resulted in the death of a 23 year-old man from Eau Claire in the front vehicle. There were three other passengers. Two were taken to a local hospital and their status is unknown at this time. Police say the driver in the rear vehicle was ...



 

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Superior Police officer jailed after fatal off-duty drunk driving crash

15 July 2022



A sergeant with the Superior Police Department was arrested early Friday after an off-duty crash that killed one man and left two other people injured. Police say the sergeant was drunken driving. A statement from the police department says Sgt. Greg Swanson is being held in the Douglas County Jail pending a charge of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle. Swanson has been with the Superior department for 15 years. According to the statement from Superior Police Chief Nicholas Alexander, Swanson was placed on administrative leave while the investigation is underway. The man killed was a 23-year-old Eau ...



 

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Off-duty Wisconsin cop charged with drunk-driving crash that killed man, baby

Greg Swanson has been charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle.

22 July 2022



A Wisconsin sergeant with the Superior Police Department has been charged with being drunk when he allegedly caused a crash that killed a 23-year-old man and a baby. Gregory M. Swanson, 42, has been charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle for the Friday, July 15, crash that killed Michael Evans and his two-month-old son, Elijah. Ojanen's family told KBJR that they had been out celebrating Evans' birthday when their car ran out of gas, with Evans getting out to push it when the crash happened on the 5200 block of E. 2nd Street in Superior. Laura Ojanen, ...



 
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