MONROE - Two men with a history of heroin use were charged this week in Green County Circuit Court with collaborating on an April 2011 home invasion and robbery in Monroe.
Samuel Russell Schutte, 29, and William Johnathan Wilke, 39, are each charged with felony counts of burglary, robbery with threat of force and possessing narcotic drugs.
Court records indicate they targeted the home in the 1000 block of 2nd Street North because Schutte knew one of the residents was prescribed Fentanyl patches, a prescription narcotic pain reliever.
When the resident came to the door, Schutte and Wilke allegedly pushed their way into the home, forced him to the floor and duct-taped his mouth shut. One of the robbers then found and took the resident's Fentanyl supply while the other "took control" of the man's wife and made her hand over $500 cash.
DNA evidence linked Schutte to the crime scene, according to court records.
Schutte has his initial appearance Sept. 30. Wilke is scheduled for an initial appearance Oct. 8.
Wilke is also facing charges in another Green County burglary case from last fall. He and two other men, Justin W. Wenger and Ryan J. Coyle, are implicated in the robbery of a New Glarus home during which an 800-pound gun safe and more than $150,000 cash were stolen.
He has a jury trial scheduled for November in that case.
Schutte has a record of addiction-fueled crime. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in March 2012 for convictions of escaping jail and forging a check. At the sentencing, he told Judge James Beer he wanted to participate in a bootcamp-style drug-counseling incentive program in prison because it "is the best way to discipline me."
- Katjusa Cisar
Samuel Russell Schutte, 29, and William Johnathan Wilke, 39, are each charged with felony counts of burglary, robbery with threat of force and possessing narcotic drugs.
Court records indicate they targeted the home in the 1000 block of 2nd Street North because Schutte knew one of the residents was prescribed Fentanyl patches, a prescription narcotic pain reliever.
When the resident came to the door, Schutte and Wilke allegedly pushed their way into the home, forced him to the floor and duct-taped his mouth shut. One of the robbers then found and took the resident's Fentanyl supply while the other "took control" of the man's wife and made her hand over $500 cash.
DNA evidence linked Schutte to the crime scene, according to court records.
Schutte has his initial appearance Sept. 30. Wilke is scheduled for an initial appearance Oct. 8.
Wilke is also facing charges in another Green County burglary case from last fall. He and two other men, Justin W. Wenger and Ryan J. Coyle, are implicated in the robbery of a New Glarus home during which an 800-pound gun safe and more than $150,000 cash were stolen.
He has a jury trial scheduled for November in that case.
Schutte has a record of addiction-fueled crime. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in March 2012 for convictions of escaping jail and forging a check. At the sentencing, he told Judge James Beer he wanted to participate in a bootcamp-style drug-counseling incentive program in prison because it "is the best way to discipline me."
- Katjusa Cisar