Overview
- Police in Posen, Illinois, detained Geyser at a truck stop on Sunday night more than 170 miles from Madison, with bodycam video showing her initially giving a false name before admitting her identity.
- A man who was with her, identified by Posen police as 43-year-old Chad Mecca, was arrested on trespassing and obstruction-related charges and later released.
- Madison police outlined a delay in alerts: the state corrections department noted a GPS malfunction at 9:30 p.m. Saturday and issued an apprehension request around midnight, but local police were not notified until a 7:46 a.m. Sunday 911 call from the group home.
- An extradition hearing was scheduled in Chicago, and Waukesha County prosecutors said a warrant is active as officials consider whether to seek revocation of her conditional release.
- Geyser had been on supervised release to a Madison-area group home since March with GPS monitoring, and the victim’s family was notified of the incident and reported they are safe.