GREEN COUNTY
FELONIES
• Matthew Wayne Schmid, 35, Albany, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $819 Wednesday after pleading no contest to a Class H felony charge of strangulation and suffocation and a Class B misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. The charges stem from an incident Oct. 17 when a woman Schmid was living with was hospitalized after a violent confrontation outside a residence in the 500 block of 3rd Street in Albany. According to a police report, Schmid repeatedly hit and kicked the woman and choked her twice, causing her to lose consciousness. The woman said she was "deathly afraid" of Schmid as he had threatened to kill her on multiple occasions, once saying "I don't care if I go back to prison, I'll kill you first, bitch." The woman also reported an incident on Sept. 15 when Schmid held a kitchen knife to her throat and threatened to kill her, inflicting a deep laceration to the woman's hand when she grabbed the blade. Schmid's whereabouts after the woman's hospitalization were initially unknown, but he was arrested Oct. 25 after the woman reported to police that he was at his father's house.
MISDEMEANORS
• Megan Leigh Norton, 22, Mount Horeb, was fined $236 Tuesday after pleading no contest to a charge of possession of THC. The charge stems from an Aug. 5 incident when Brodhead police stopped a vehicle after officers recognized that the driver was the subject of an outstanding arrest warrant. Norton, a passenger in the vehicle, was found in possession of three baggies of marijuana, as well as a bottle of pills later found to be Diazepam, a Schedule IV narcotic. Norton later revealed during a medical examination to also be in possession of a pipe and a fourth bag of marijuana. Charges of possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia were dismissed.
FELONIES
• Matthew Wayne Schmid, 35, Albany, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $819 Wednesday after pleading no contest to a Class H felony charge of strangulation and suffocation and a Class B misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. The charges stem from an incident Oct. 17 when a woman Schmid was living with was hospitalized after a violent confrontation outside a residence in the 500 block of 3rd Street in Albany. According to a police report, Schmid repeatedly hit and kicked the woman and choked her twice, causing her to lose consciousness. The woman said she was "deathly afraid" of Schmid as he had threatened to kill her on multiple occasions, once saying "I don't care if I go back to prison, I'll kill you first, bitch." The woman also reported an incident on Sept. 15 when Schmid held a kitchen knife to her throat and threatened to kill her, inflicting a deep laceration to the woman's hand when she grabbed the blade. Schmid's whereabouts after the woman's hospitalization were initially unknown, but he was arrested Oct. 25 after the woman reported to police that he was at his father's house.
MISDEMEANORS
• Megan Leigh Norton, 22, Mount Horeb, was fined $236 Tuesday after pleading no contest to a charge of possession of THC. The charge stems from an Aug. 5 incident when Brodhead police stopped a vehicle after officers recognized that the driver was the subject of an outstanding arrest warrant. Norton, a passenger in the vehicle, was found in possession of three baggies of marijuana, as well as a bottle of pills later found to be Diazepam, a Schedule IV narcotic. Norton later revealed during a medical examination to also be in possession of a pipe and a fourth bag of marijuana. Charges of possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia were dismissed.