Green County
Felonies
• Peter Victor Cramer, 32, Monroe, was sentenced Aug. 8 to one year in jail after his probation in a case from 2017 was revoked. He also pleaded no contest to more recent charges, including a Class I felony count of possessing THC (marijuana) with intent to sell and misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing an officer. His jail sentence in those cases is to run concurrent to the yearlong sentence in the revoked case, along with two more years on probation. He is eligible for Huber work release. The 2017 case stems from an incident at Twining Park in Monroe in April. Court records indicate Cramer approached a group of teens playing basketball in Twining Park and asked to play. They agreed. He turned aggressive, shouting “LeBron Cramer!” after he made a basket, then started arguing about game rules and punched a 15-year-old boy in the face. The punch knocked a lens out of the boy’s glasses and left him with a swollen eye and bottom lip. When police arrived on scene, they discovered marijuana and tablets of lorazepam, a controlled narcotic, in Cramer’s backpack. His probation in that case was revoked, according to court records, after Cramer sold about a half-ounce of marijuana to a confidential source for $130 in the 500 block of 1st Avenue in Monroe on Oct. 4, 2017; and again on April 11 when he took off on foot after an attempted traffic stop on his motorcycle in Juda. When apprehended, he was found in possession of a large amount of cash and clonidine, lorazepam and diazepam pills. He explained to police, “You have to make money somehow.”
• Christopher Lee Sibley, 32, Monroe, was sentenced Sept. 18 to three years on probation and six months in jail, to begin Oct. 12, for a Class G felony conviction of intimidating a victim with use of or attempted force and a Class A misdemeanor conviction of battery. Charges of disorderly conduct, false imprisonment and criminal damage to property were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. The case stems from a domestic dispute Dec. 22 at Sibley’s home in the 1300 block of 16th Street. Court records indicate he is a repeat domestic abuse offender, having been convicted of hitting a woman in 2014, causing her facial injuries that sent her to a hospital ER.
• Austin Dean Flood, 23, Monroe, was sentenced Sept. 18 to six months in jail, with time served and another six months imposed and stayed, after having his probation revoked on a felony conviction of bail jumping and misdemeanor convictions of disorderly conduct, retail theft and possessing a hazardous substance with the intent to abuse it. He was also ordered to spend three more years on probation. He owes the court $1,847. The multiple revoked cases against Flood relate to his substance abuse, most notably shoplifting cans of air duster, huffing them in public places like the Monroe Public Library and becoming “highly intoxicated” or passing out, according to court records. He was entered into the Green County Drug Court Program but failed to appear for mandatory weekly review hearings and was terminated from the program for noncompliance in July before being jailed in August.
• Paige Leigh Patmythes, 18, Roscoe, Illinois, stood mute Aug. 22 on a Class H felony charge of child abuse and a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. The case stems from an incident May 27 in Albany, according to court records. Police on patrol approached a group of people arguing at the corner of South Water Street and East Main Street and were told a 12-year-old girl was in the nearby office of S&B Tubing because she had been trying to stop fighting between people in the group and had been hit in the process. The girl told police Patmythes hit her in the eye, shoved her and yelled at her. Police reviewed video surveillance and noted Patmythes charging at the girl “while snapping her arm at her” and pursuing her even after another person tried to hold her back. Patmythes has signed a $2,000 signature bond with conditions that she not drink alcohol, go into bars or liquor stores or have contact with the girl or S&B Tubing. She has a pre-trial conference Oct. 16.
Misdemeanors
• Austin Terry Erdenberger, 21, Benton, pleaded no contest Sept. 17 to a forfeiture citation of operating a vehicle with flashing lights, downgraded from a misdemeanor charge of impersonating a peace officer. He was fined $267.50. The case stems from an incident June 17 south of Brodhead on Wisconsin 81. Erdenberger, a firefighter for an unincorporated village in Grant County, used flashing emergency lights on his personal vehicle to “pull over” two women in a vehicle in front of him, according to police reports. When the driver pulled over and stopped, he sped past her. Neither the driver nor her passenger knew him or were local to the area. Green County deputies found a siren box, scanner, antennas and a light bar with a programmable light system in Erdenberger’s car.
• Braydon James Collins, 23, New Glarus, pleaded no contest Sept. 19 to misdemeanor charges of bail jumping, resisting or obstructing an officer and third-offense driving with a prohibited blood-alcohol content. He was sentenced to four months in jail with Huber work-release privileges. The charges stem from a traffic stop in Brodhead on March 21, 2017, and a subsequent arrest for bail jumping in the 1300 block of 18th Street in Monroe on July 23, 2017. Collins is ordered to undergo an alcohol-abuse assessment and any recommended treatment. His driver’s license is revoked two years and he is required to use an ignition-interlock device in his vehicle for two years once he has his license back. He owes the court $2,973.50.