Green County
Felonies
● Ted C. Henderson Jr., 53, Monroe, pleaded no contest Oct. 4 to a felony fourth-offense charge of operating while intoxicated, with related charges dismissed as part of a plea deal. He was sentenced to three years on probation and 60 days in jail. His court assessments total $1,819. According to court records, deputies responded March 24 to a report of an unoccupied vehicle upside down and partially in the road in the N1400 block of Mellenberger Road, Town of Cadiz. They found Henderson several miles away walking along Wisconsin 11 near Dill Road and identified him as the driver of the overturned vehicle. He reported he had swerved to miss a deer. His vehicle went into the ditch, then returned to the road before again entering the ditch and hitting a tree stump. It then rolled and came to rest on its roof. Henderson was previously convicted of his third OWI in 2002 in Green County and his second in 1999 in Rock County.
● Jessica Diane Cobb, 41, Argyle, pleaded guilty Oct. 30 to a Class F felony charge of delivering methamphetamine, with four additional counts dismissed as part of a plea agreement. She was sentenced to one year in prison and two years on extended supervision. She has paid $818 in court assessments. Court records indicate Cobb sold more than 20 grams of meth to an undercover officer over the course of five transactions in 2016. She was charged after a months-long investigation by the Stateline Area Narcotics Team that began from an anonymous tip that she was manufacturing and selling meth out of her home in the N3200 block of Jordan-Wiota Road, Town of Jordan. She is also currently serving a three-year sentence on a meth delivery conviction out of Stephenson County, Illinois.
● Alan Joseph Blahnik, 39, New Glarus, pleased no contest Oct 30 to a Class H felony charge of child abuse. A misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct was dismissed. He was sentenced to 20 months on probation, with conditions that he have no contact with the victim unless under circumstances agreed upon by the Department of Corrections and Child Protective Services. He was assessed $518 in court and probation costs. The case stems from an incident March 12 at a residence in the 700 block of 2nd Street in New Glarus. Court records indicate Blahnik grabbed a 6-year-old boy by the ear and pulled him off a bunk bed, causing the child’s ear to turn black and purple. A school authority reported the “significant bruise” to Green County Human Services. When police went to investigate, the child’s mother yelled at and threatened law enforcement and told them to take the boy to jail for misbehaving. She was cited for her behavior. The boy told police Blahnik has spanked him, pulled his ear, smacked him with a belt and punched him in the face.
● Beth Ann Lampher, 38, South Beloit, Illinois, was charged Sept. 3 with a Class I felony count of possessing an amphetamine, two counts of felony bail jumping and a misdemeanor charge of obtaining a prescription drug through fraud. Court records indicate on Aug. 30 she presented a fake prescription for 60 Adderall tablets to the pharmacy manager at Pinnow Hometown Pharmacy, 1028 1st Center Ave., Brodhead. The manager “immediately became suspicious of the prescription, as it appeared to him to be an enlarged, poor photocopy of a prescription” on white paper instead of the typical pink or green paper. The manager also told police her prescription history showed orders for an unusually high number of pills over a short time.
● Chevy J. Ottenhausen, 32, Brodhead, was charged Sept. 6 with a Class H felony count of false imprisonment and misdemeanor counts of battery and disorderly conduct, stemming from a domestic altercation Aug. 9 at his home on East 4th Avenue. Court records indicate he pushed a woman and threw a piece of furniture, and her son called 911 crying to report it. Police documented scratches on her neck. Ottenhausen denied pushing her.
● Tony Lee Herman, 23, Madison, was charged Sept. 6 with misdemeanor counts of possessing drug paraphernalia and resisting an officer. An initially filed felony charge of THC possession has already been dismissed on the prosecutor’s motion. The case stems from a traffic stop May 26. Court records indicate he was speeding 80 mph in a 55 mph zone on Wisconsin 11, Town of Decatur, and he eventually pulled over in the 300 block of 23rd Street in Brodhead. The deputy smelled an odor of marijuana coming from vehicle and observed “a green leafy substance on the driver’s pants.” Herman said he had hemp in the vehicle but denied having anything above the legal limit for THC. He said he has a license to sell hemp and runs a CBD oil store on Williamson Street in Madison but recently misplaced the license at an airport during recent travels. A bag of “green leafy substance” Herman handed to the deputy tested positive for the probable presence of THC, but the testing kit does not test for a certain percentage. Officers also found a grinder and cigarettes and vape pens that smelled of marijuana. Herman is currently on probation for 2018 convictions in Dane County of possessing THC and maintaining a drug-trafficking place.