WJJQ LOCAL NEWS
Person of interest turns himself in to authorities
Saturday, March 29, 2008

The man Tomahawk Police named a person of interest in the Rochelle Anderson homicide turned himself in to authorities on Friday night in Milwaukee. He is being held in Milwaukee on outstanding warrants in Marathon and Washington Counties.

Nathan Ives, 21, was named a person of interest in the case on Thursday night, and Tomahawk Police and authorities state wide have been searching for him since then.

According to a Marathon County Sheriff’s dispatcher, Ives was scene walking in Oshkosh. He then reportedly was scene in Theresa. Theresa Police Chief Michael Simmons told a local television station he questioned two women after spotting them, obviously upset, on the sidewalk outside a Theresa gas station. They were traveling from Oshkosh. Chief Simmons says they eventually admitted that Nathan Ives had been with them but had left when they saw the police car in the area. He never saw Ives but he says a person matching his description went to several homes in Theresa asking to use their phones. Officials report Ives was then given a ride to Milwaukee by an unsuspecting person.

Ives lived in a home at 220 North First Avenue in Wausau which was searched by the Tomahawk Police Department, with assistance from the Wausau Police Department and the State Crime Lab. Tomahawk Police Don Johnson calls Ives a person of interest in the case, not a suspect.

Rochelle Anderson, 25, of Irma was killed Saturday night during a robbery at the Zephyr Fuel gas and convenience store on North Fourth Street in Tomahawk.

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