A former Dane County sheriff’s deputy accused of lying about a shooting she was involved in in Cross Plains pleads guilty.
Today Sara Bortz-Rodriguez pleaded guilty to misdemeanor resisting and obstructing an officer and was referred to the deferred prosecution program. Bortz-Rodriguez said she shot her gun at a suspect in Festge Park last October after being stabbed, but an investigation found she lied about what happened. She was fired the next month.