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Circuit Court: April 29, 2014
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Green County

Misdemeanors

On Monday:

• Joanne B. Michaels, 54, Albany, had charges of disorderly conduct and resisting an officer dismissed on a prosecutor's motion. Court records indicate Michaels was charged on Jan. 23 for yelling, swearing, pushing and punching her son because he did not answer the door to their home fast enough. All charges were dismissed as a part of a deferred prosecution agreement.

• Payton W. Collins, 26, Monroe, stood mute and had a signature bond of $1,000 set for two counts of resisting an officer and one count of disorderly conduct. Court records allege Collins was forcibly removed from a bar on March 8, in the 1300 block of 17th Street several times and resisted police by holding onto a metal support pole and refusing to submit to arrest. After repeated attempts to remove him from the pole, Collins allegedly cocked back his right arm as if to punch one of the officers who then detained him. After he was placed in a police squad car Collins kicked at the door. He has a pre-trial conference set for June 3.

• Angela M. Graff, 27, Monroe, stood mute and had a signature bond of $500 set with additional conditions that she have no contact with her parents unless they invite her to their home. According to court records, Graff allegedly stole seven rings and an undetermined amount of U.S. coins from her parents' home on Dec. 23. Graff admitted to selling two of the rings at a jewelry store in Freeport for a total of $60. All seven rings were valued by the owners at $3,080. Graff has a pre-trial conference set for June 3.

• Katie Ann Sanders, 23, Darlington, entered a not-guilty plea and had a signature bond of $500 set with additional conditions that she not drive unless obtaining a valid license. Sanders was charged with driving while under the influence of a controlled substance, first offense, with a passenger who is a minor on March 12. Court records indicate Sanders was stopped by an officer on Wis. 69 and County H, Town of New Glarus, because the responding officer received a complaint of a vehicle in the wrong lane. The officer wrote in his report that she was slurring and mumbling but her preliminary breath test came up as 0 percent. K-9 unit Ike alerted to drugs in the vehicle and the officer found two blue pills in the vehicle. The pills were later identified as Alprazolam. She has a pre-trial conference set for June 3.

• Katie Ann Sanders, 23, Darlington, entered a plea of not guilty and had a signature bond of $500 with additional conditions that she not possess or consume any controlled substances not prescribed to her. The conditions of her arrest are the same as listed above. Court records also indicate Sanders had Alprazolam pills in her underwear that fell out in the emergency room of Monroe Clinic hospital where she was being cleared for release. The responding officer also located pills on the floor of the jail, in the back of the squad car and in her jacket. A grinder was located in the vehicle with blue dust in it. Sanders has a pre-trial conference set for June 3.

• Rachael R. Simpson, 20, Brodhead, stood mute and had a signature bond of $1,500 set with additional conditions that she have no violent or abusive contact with her sister or her sister's boyfriend. Simpson is accused of domestic abuse related-battery, disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property stemming from an incident that occurred on Feb. 27. Court records allege she hit her sister multiple times in the head and yelled and swore at her. She also broke a laptop owned by her sister's boyfriend. Her sister claimed Simpson hit her about 20 times in the head. She has a pre-trial conference set for June 3.

• Keith S. Spring, 31, Monroe, stood mute and had a signature bond set at $1,500 with additional conditions that he have no contact with a business located in the N2500 block of Coplien Road, Monroe, and not drink. Spring was charged with entering a business without permission and criminal damage to property on March 14. According to court records, Spring allegedly tore off a plywood sheet covering a door and proceeded to pass out on a couch inside the business. He was later found by an employee and had only one shoe on. No one at the business knew him and Spring told the responding officer he had walked from a bar but could not remember breaking into the business. His preliminary breath test came back at .144 percent. Spring has a pre-trial conference set for June 3.