Green County

Felonies

●  Ricky Wayne Tochtrop, 20, Freeport, pleaded no contest and entered a deferred prosecution agreement Nov. 19 on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property, with a Class H felony charge of false imprisonment and a misdemeanor charge of battery dismissed as part of a plea deal. He owes the court $686. The case stems from an incident June 10 at a residence in the 700 block of East 3rd Avenue in Brodhead. Court records indicate Tochtrop had been drinking and had a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit for driving when he got upset and threw a small cabinet across a room, knocked over a bedroom lamp, dumped a vase of roses on the ground and threw a book at a woman, then put her in a headlock. She bit him in self-defense.

●  Michael Paul Lamp, 41, Monticello, has a preliminary hearing Dec. 13 on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and resisting or obstructing an officer, four counts of felony bail jumping and a Class G felony charge of intimidating a witness with threat of force. Lamp reportedly punched a man four or five times in the head during a confrontation Aug. 6 at the Mount Hope boat landing on Mount Hope Road, Town of Spring Grove. Lamp was aggressive and resistive with officers later that day when they went to his apartment in Monroe to arrest him. One officer noted that there were “officer safety alerts” attached to Lamp’s name because Lamp “was a known gang member of the Gangster Disciples and a Hell’s Angels motorcycle club associate.” 

●  David Gordon Potter, 57, Monroe, has an initial appearance Jan. 15 on Class H felony charges of operating while intoxicated (fourth offense) and operating with a prohibited blood-alcohol concentration (fourth offense). The case stems from a midmorning single-vehicle crash May 30 on Hiawatha Road, Town of Jordan. Court records indicate Potter had a blood-alcohol level of 0.251 percent, more than three times the legal limit for driving, an open bottle of vodka in the vehicle and “very slow and thick” speech.

●  Dennis E. Beutel, 48, Monroe, is charged with eight counts of felony bail jumping, a Class H felony charge of taking and driving a vehicle without consent and a misdemeanor charge of resisting or obstructing an officer. He has a pre-trial conference Dec. 18. On Sept. 26, Beutel allegedly stole a truck from a Brodhead resident he did not know and was later stopped by police for “weaving all over the road,” stopping in the middle of the road and crossing the center line. At the Brodhead Police Department, he started ramming his head into a bathroom stall door, then said he didn’t remember what happened and told police he was “not right in the head” and needed help, according to police reports. He was subsequently arrested on multiple occasions for breaking his conditions of bond by drinking, including an incident Oct. 3 when he was “found intoxicated, sleeping inside of a vehicle” parked behind a bar in Monroe. He is also facing 10 counts of theft in Lafayette County.

●  Scott E. Wald, 42, Beloit, was charged Nov. 8 with two Class G felony counts of second-degree recklessly endangering safety and a Class I felony charge of fleeing an officer in a vehicle. On Sept. 16, police responded to a request from a friend for a welfare check on Wald and located him in the parking lot of Legion Park in Brodhead. Wald allegedly led multiple officers on a high-speed chase to Albany, failing to stop his vehicle for stop signs, avoiding stop sticks laid out by police and nearly hitting two people along the way. 

●  Kasey Cole Genthe, 25, Albany, stood mute Nov. 19 to a felony bail jumping charge and a misdemeanor second-offense charge of operating while intoxicated. The case stems from a traffic stop Nov. 8 in Brodhead, in response to a complaint of an erratic driver on Wis. 11. The responding officer located the offending 2011 Lexus sedan on 1st Center Avenue in Brodhead, observing it weave in the lane, change speeds and nearly hit a guard rail. The driver, identified as Genthe, said he was just tired and he blew 0.0 percent in a breathalyzer test, but the officer noted Genthe was physically shaking and his pupils were “extremely restricted.” The officer noticed “an off-white paste-like substance” inside Genthe’s mouth, discovered a cup of dryer sheets soaked in chemicals behind the driver’s seat and suspected Genthe of huffing the chemicals while driving. Bottles of bleach and “Lysol-like chemicals” were taken as evidence from the vehicle. 

●  Kortney M. Lisser, 34, Albany, has a preliminary hearing Dec. 20 on Class H felony charges of strangulation and false imprisonment and multiple misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and battery and one count of criminal damage to property. The charges stem from incidents in September involving another woman at her residence on North East Street. Court records indicate she slammed the woman against a wall, pulled her hair, punched her in the nose and smashed her Apple watch against the ground. The woman had bruising on her face and told police she “couldn’t walk straight” after an attack from Lisser.

●  Thor Alexander Crapp, 30, Monticello, has a preliminary hearing Dec. 20 on three counts of felony bail jumping and a misdemeanor count of resisting or obstructing an officer, stemming from an arrest Oct. 8 at his home on South Monroe Street. Crapp was reported for probation violations involving drug use, out of concern that “he would overdose and die one of these days,” according to police reports. He tried to evade police when officers came to arrest him, escaping out a basement window, but was tackled and taken into custody on the front lawn. The reports explain that extra police were called in for backup at the scene because Crapp is a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and meth user. Crapp was upset because his arrest meant he would miss an upcoming MMA fight and he had wanted to make his parents proud by winning it. “The one reason I had to live is gone. Now I get to rot in a cell,” he told police.

Misdemeanors

●  Gene Michael Swedlund, 40, Juda, pleaded no contest and entered a one-year deferred prosecution agreement Oct. 26 on a Class B misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. He was fined $243, which has been paid. The case stems from an incident June 24. According to the criminal complaint, police responded to Union Road in the Town of Spring Grove around 3:30 a.m. after a woman called 911 and expressed fear for her life after an argument with Swedlund. She told authorities he did not physically harm her but had approached her in a way that made her arm herself with knives for her own protection.