MONROE - A Brodhead man still on probation for helping escaped prisoners burglarize homes in 2012 faces a new charge stemming from the same time period.
Ronald Mark Goodman, Sr., 59, signed a signature bond Monday in Green County Court on a misdemeanor charge of theft that alleges he accepted a $2,500 down payment for home-improvement work he didn't do.
A Monroe resident in the 2900 block of 11th Street hired Goodman in March 2012, shortly before a series of offenses that ultimately landed Goodman in jail and on his current probation.
Goodman told an investigating officer the money was a "personal loan" and that he used it to pay his bills and buy gas. The resident denies her down payment was intended as a loan. Goodman did not purchase construction supplies for the home-improvement project and never started it.
The alleged theft occurred during a period of turmoil and criminality in Goodman's life. Court records show no criminal record for Goodman prior to 2011.
His tangles with the law began as his marriage broke up 2011. He lost up to $200,000 to Internet scammers who posed as potential lovers, and his construction business sank into debt.
In desperate attempts to recoup money in the months that followed, Goodman wrote worthless checks in Rock County, robbed a Fitchburg convenience store at gunpoint using a shoplifted BB gun and allowed jail escapees to stay in his home and use his pickup truck to burglarize homes across the region.
The judge assigned to Goodman's current case, Thomas Vale, sentenced him in October 2013 to three years of probation for two counts of harboring or aiding a felon and one count of receiving or concealing stolen property.
Goodman appeared before Vale on Monday afternoon in person and without counsel. He is ordered to have no contact with the resident or her home, as conditions of his $2,500 signature bond. A pre-trial conference is set for June 2.
- Katjusa Cisar
Ronald Mark Goodman, Sr., 59, signed a signature bond Monday in Green County Court on a misdemeanor charge of theft that alleges he accepted a $2,500 down payment for home-improvement work he didn't do.
A Monroe resident in the 2900 block of 11th Street hired Goodman in March 2012, shortly before a series of offenses that ultimately landed Goodman in jail and on his current probation.
Goodman told an investigating officer the money was a "personal loan" and that he used it to pay his bills and buy gas. The resident denies her down payment was intended as a loan. Goodman did not purchase construction supplies for the home-improvement project and never started it.
The alleged theft occurred during a period of turmoil and criminality in Goodman's life. Court records show no criminal record for Goodman prior to 2011.
His tangles with the law began as his marriage broke up 2011. He lost up to $200,000 to Internet scammers who posed as potential lovers, and his construction business sank into debt.
In desperate attempts to recoup money in the months that followed, Goodman wrote worthless checks in Rock County, robbed a Fitchburg convenience store at gunpoint using a shoplifted BB gun and allowed jail escapees to stay in his home and use his pickup truck to burglarize homes across the region.
The judge assigned to Goodman's current case, Thomas Vale, sentenced him in October 2013 to three years of probation for two counts of harboring or aiding a felon and one count of receiving or concealing stolen property.
Goodman appeared before Vale on Monday afternoon in person and without counsel. He is ordered to have no contact with the resident or her home, as conditions of his $2,500 signature bond. A pre-trial conference is set for June 2.
- Katjusa Cisar