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Circuit Court: Aug. 7, 2015
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GREEN COUNTY

FELONIES

• Timothy C. Moore, 58, Madison, was charged July 30 with bail jumping for allegedly violating a bond condition in a separate case by drinking. According to the criminal complaint, police responded to the 2200 block of Ridgeway Road in Monroe July 29, where they found a silver Buick that had bypassed a dead end sign and gone "into some brush and crashed into a culvert housing a small creek." Police noted in their report that Moore, who was in the driver's seat, had slurred speech and bloodshot and glassy eyes. After reportedly failing standardized field sobriety tests, he was arrested for first-offense operating while intoxicated, transported to the hospital for a blood draw and medical clearance, and then taken to jail. The bail jumping charge stems from Moore's allegedly having consumed intoxicants, a violation of a $500 signature bond he signed Feb. 10 in a case in Dane County Circuit Court in which he's is charged with felony stalking. One condition of his bond is "defendant shall not consume alcohol," police documents indicate. In the new case, he was also cited for having open intoxicants in a motor vehicle, failing to maintain control and a registration violation. Court records indicate Moore is out on bail after signing a $1,500 signature bond July 31 that orders him not to drink. He has a preliminary hearing Aug. 19.

• David C. Friedli, 37, Monroe, was charged July 31 with strangulation and suffocation, a felony, domestic abuse-related disorderly conduct and battery for allegedly putting a woman he knows in a "sleeper hold," impeding her breathing, and grabbing her by the hair to prevent her from leaving a room at his residence in the 1500 block of 23rd Avenue July 29. The woman reportedly told police she and Friedli were arguing in a bedroom at his residence and he stood in the doorway to keep her from walking out. According to court documents, she pushed him out of the way to get by and he grabbed her hair and tried to pull her back into the room. She told investigators he put his arm around her neck and put her in a sleeper hold on the couch for one to two minutes, police files show. Officers noted in their report her voice was raspy, she had bruises on her arms and redness on her neck and she reported swallowing caused her pain. Investigators contacted Friedli, who denied pulling her by the hair but said he put his arm around her neck without choking her because she swung at him, according to the criminal complaint. He was arrested and jailed. Court records indicate he signed a $1,500 signature bond Monday that orders him to have no contact with the woman or the residence. He has a preliminary hearing Aug. 19.

• Kevin J. McDonough, 32, Harvard, Ill., was charged Monday with possessing narcotics, marijuana and drug paraphernalia after police stopped him in the N3500 block of Wisconsin 104 in the Town of Decatur and found drugs and other contraband in his vehicle. According to court documents, an officer pulled McDonough over for failing to dim his headlights as he drove by. Police noted in their report that when they made contact with him, his breath smelled of alcohol. He reportedly failed standardized field sobriety tests and was arrested for second-offense operating while intoxicated, transported to Monroe Clinic for a blood draw, and then taken to jail. His blood-alcohol concentration was reportedly 0.11 percent. A search of his car yielded four pills of suspected hydrocodone, 1.9 grams of suspected marijuana and several smoking devices, police files show. Court records indicate he signed a $3,000 signature bond Wednesday that orders him not to consume nonprescription controlled substances or possess drug paraphernalia. He has a preliminary hearing Aug. 12.

• Dennis E. Carpenter Jr., 22, Black Earth, was sentenced to six months in jail and three years of probation July 30 after he pleaded no contest to forgery, issuing worthless checks, taking and driving a vehicle without the owner's consent, drug possession and bail jumping across five separate cases filed in 2013 and 2014. His probation conditions order him to maintain absolute sobriety, not possess or consume nonprescription controlled substances and undergo assessments for alcohol and drug use. He must pay restitution; he owes $1,575 in restitution in the case in which he pleaded no contest to felony bail jumping. He also must pay court costs; police records indicate he owes the court $176. As part of a plea agreement prosecutors reached with Carpenter and his attorney, 16 charges across the five cases were dismissed.

• Sharon K. Lawinger, 37, Blanchardville, was charged Monday with recklessly causing harm to a child, a felony, and disorderly conduct after a July 30 incident in which she allegedly threw a cooking pan containing boiling water and food to the floor, causing some of its scalding-hot contents to splash onto a 9-year-old girl and burn her head and upper body. The girl was transported to Upland Hills Health Center in Dodgeville, court files show, and then to the children's burn unit at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. A doctor at Upland Hills reportedly told police the girl suffered "second-degree burn type injuries" to the ear, neck and shoulder. According to police reports, Lawinger told investigators she threw the pan down in a fit of pique after an argument with a 37-year-old man she knows over the dinner she was making. She reportedly told officers the girl was standing nearby, and Lawinger did not expect the contents of the pan to hit the girl. The man mostly corroborated Lawinger's account, court documents show, telling police he didn't believe she intended to cause burns to the girl. Court records indicate Lawinger signed a $2,000 signature bond Wednesday that orders her to have no unauthorized contact with the girl and to not reside with the man or minor children. She has a preliminary hearing Aug. 25.



MISDEMEANORS

• Barbara A. Hudson, 32, Monroe, had two charges of domestic-abuse-related disorderly conduct and one charge of battery against her dismissed Wednesday.

• Maurice Cerro, 40, Madison, pleaded no contest to possessing marijuana Wednesday and faces a fine. Cerro was originally charged in June 2014 with manufacturing marijuana and maintaining a drug trafficking place, both felonies, and possessing drug paraphernalia. The charges were amended Wednesday prior to Cerro entering his plea, court files show. The convictions stems from an investigation led by the Illinois State Police into an alleged marijuana grow operation on a property in the N8600 block of Freidig Road in the Town of Brooklyn. According to the criminal complaint, in September 2013 officers received a tip that the property owner had given a man named "Maurice" permission to grow marijuana in one of the land's outbuildings. The property owner and another man were arrested in February 2014 after police stopped their vehicle and found suspected marijuana plants inside. The next day, police went to the property and seized 301 plants, guns, growing equipment, cocaine and drug paraphernalia, court documents show. According to police reports, officers never found Cerro to be directly in possession of drugs, but he told police he was "totally involved in the grow operation" and smokes marijuana periodically. Police records indicate he owes the court $437.50.

• Alicia D. Parr, 23, Monroe, was granted a deferred prosecution agreement July 27 after she pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct. As part of the agreement, she had charges of trespassing and criminal damage to property dismissed. The charge she pleaded no contest to will be dismissed after a year if she follows all conditions of the agreement. She is ordered to remain sober, commit no new crimes, obey the terms of any restraining orders against her, undergo treatment and counseling the District Attorney's office deems appropriate, attend quarterly monitoring conferences and pay court costs. The charges stemmed from a Jan. 17 incident in which Parr entered an enclosed porch at a residence in the N1700 block of Five Corner Road in the Town of Jefferson, rapped on a door and kicked it, causing it to crack and split. Police later located and arrested her in Monroe. Her blood-alcohol concentration was 0.24 percent.

• Samuel A. Meier, 35, Madison, was sentenced to six months in jail July 30 after he had his probation revoked in two separate cases July 2. The court reportedly revoked his probation after police determined in June he had possessed methamphetamine and materials to manufacture the drug. Police files show that Meier was sentenced to 18 months of probation in November after he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of drug possession and bail jumping. The drug charge stemmed from a 2013 incident in which police stopped him on Cottage Grove Road at Evergreen Street in the Town of Decatur and found 1 gram of suspected methamphetamine in his vehicle. The bail-jumping charge stemmed from an October incident in which he violated his bond conditions in the drug case by failing to appear at a hearing. According to court documents, he will have work-release privileges during his jail sentence as long as he remains alcohol- and drug-free. Police records indicate he owes the court $443.

• Aubrilynn A.K. Myers, 20, Columbus, Ohio, was granted a deferred prosecution agreement July 31 after she pleaded no contest to domestic-abuse-related disorderly conduct and possessing drug paraphernalia. As part of the agreement, she had two counts of criminal damage to property and one count of battery dismissed. The charges she pleaded no contest to will be dismissed after a year if she follows all conditions of the agreement. She is ordered to undergo counseling where she lives for substance abuse, anger management and psychological issues, commit no new crimes, obey the terms of any restraining orders against her and attend quarterly monitoring conferences. She also must pay court costs; police records indicate she owes the court $486. The charges stemmed from a Feb. 6 incident in which Parr was arrested and jailed for holding a knife to her stomach and telling a man she knows to push it into her, hitting the man in the face with a small table and being in possession of a rubber tourniquet, butane lighter, Q-tips and white cotton balls.