
Crocker
A La Crosse man was charged Monday after he was accused of taking a woman’s government stimulus money and hitting a man with a pistol.
Caleb M. Crocker, 22, was charged in La Crosse County Circuit Court with armed robbery, battery and felony bail jumping in connection to the May 6 incident.
According to the criminal complaint, a woman went to Walmart in Onalaska to cash her check May 6, and Crocker and two other men followed her there and back, helped bring in her groceries and hung out at her home.
One of the men accused the woman’s boyfriend of having a stolen necklace, and the two started to fight. Crocker is accused of hitting the boyfriend in the head with a pistol, according to the complaint. Crocker demanded the money, and the woman handed it over.
Crocker is being held in the La Crosse County Jail on a $1,000 cash bond and probation hold.
At the time of the incident, Crocker was out on bond after he was charged last year with strangulation and suffocation and battery.
Crocker has previously been convicted of battery or threat to law enforcement officer, operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent, criminal damage to property, theft and bail jumping.
Tyler Peterson
Tyler J. Peterson, 28, Readstown, was charged May 29 with possession of methamphetamine, resisting or obstructing an officer and disorderly conduct. Peterson had meth March 27 and resisted arrest when he was arrested due to violent behavior in La Crosse, according to the complaint.
Eric Stevens
Eric M. Stevens, 49, Onalaska, was charged May 29 with felony bail jumping. Stevens violated a no-contact order with Kwik Trip March 31, according to the complaint.
Sandra Levit
Sandra K. Levit, 51, no permanent address, was charged May 29 with possession with intent to deliver 3 to 10 grams of amphetamines and possession of drug paraphernalia, both as a repeat offender. Levit had eight bags of methamphetamine containing more than 6 grams of meth and two glass pipes with meth residue May 18 when she was arrested after smoking meth in her vehicle on the 3300 block of Commerce Street, according to the complaint.
Denise Oliver
Denise A. Oliver, 49, Bangor, was charged May 29 with possession of methamphetamine, possession of THC and possession of drug paraphernalia. Oliver had 13.1 grams of marijuana and 0.6 grams of meth when she was arrested May 18 for doing drugs in a friend’s vehicle, according to the complaint.
Christopher Mallette

Christopher A. Mallette, 53, no permanent address, was charged May 28 with felony bail jumping, misdemeanor battery, criminal damage to property, misdemeanor bail jumping and disorderly conduct. Mallette punched another man and broke his glasses May 27 in Cameron Park, violating terms of his previous bonds, according to the complaint.
Dylan Spargur

Dylan M. Spargur, 20, Red Wing, Minn., was charged May 28 with concealing a stolen firearm and carrying a concealed weapon. Spargur was pulled over May 25 for speeding on Interstate 90 in La Crosse County and had a loaded 9-mm handgun under the driver’s seat, according to the complaint. The serial number, make and model of the handgun matched a stolen firearm out of Red Wing.
Lorelei Goyette

Lorelei L. Goyette, 53, Onalaska, was charged May 27 with possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Goyette had 0.28 grams of meth and a glass pipe with drug residue March 9 in Onalaska, according to the criminal complaint.
Devon Perkins
Devon A. Perkins, 23, La Crosse, was charged May 27 with two counts of felony bail jumping and receiving stolen property. Perkins sold a stolen phone May 10 in the Woodman’s parking lot while out on two felony bonds, according to the complaint.
Faraji Robinson

Faraji Y. Robinson, 28, La Crosse, was charged May 22 with possession of cocaine and two counts of felony bail jumping. Robinson violated terms of a previous bond May 21 when he had contact with a woman and was arrested with 0.3 grams of cocaine, according to the complaint.
Andrea Walker
Andrea J. Walker, 39, no permanent address, was charged May 22 with possession of narcotic drugs and possession of methamphetamine, both as a repeat offender. Waler had 0.2 grams of meth and 0.6 grams of heroin April 21 when police spoke to her about an alleged theft, according to the complaint.
Meenan Yang
Meenan A. Yang, 19, La Crosse, was charged May 22 with delivery of THC, theft of movable property, criminal trespass to dwelling and criminal damage to property. Yang stole a TV and sound bar April 6 from a Caledonia Street residence after a teen failed to pay her for dealing marijuana, according to the complaint. She also broke several items in the home.
Andrew Veseley
Andrew Veseley, 19, Oak Lawn, Ill., was charged May 20 with possession with intent to deliver THC, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of an illegally-obtained prescription. Veseley had six 3.5-ounce bags of marijuana, five containers of marijuana resin for vaping, a bottle of prescription liquid codeine, a .45 semi-automatic handgun and 10 hollow-point rounds March 24 when he was pulled over for speeding, according to the complaint.
Quintin Stello
Quintin Stello, 29, no permanent address, was charged May 20 with misdemeanor theft and felony bail jumping. According to the complaint, Stello violated terms of a felony bond by committing new crimes March 29 when he stole a .22 rifle from a La Crosse home, according to the complaint.
Benjamin M. Wiese
Benjamin M. Wiese, 31, no permanent address, was charged May 20 with possession of methamphetamine, possession of narcotic drugs, obstructing an officer, misdemeanor bail jumping and possession of drug paraphernalia, all as a repeat offender. Wiese had 1.1 grams of meth, 0.3 grams of heroin and two bags with drug residue March 31 when he was stopped for speeding in Rockland, according to the complaint.
Kyle Backlund

Kyle J. Backlund, 30, La Crosse, was charged May 18 with possession with intent to deliver amphetamines, felony bail jumping, possession of an illegally obtained prescription and possession of drug paraphernalia. Backlund had 19.38 grams of methamphetamine in six plastic baggies, four clonazepam pills and a glass pipe May 17 while out on bond, according to the complaint.
Cale Oelfke

Cale F. Oelfke, 22, La Crosse, was charged May 18 with second-offense possession of methamphetamine as a repeat offender. Oelfke had 0.47 grams of meth May 17, according to the complaint.
Bradly Murphy

Bradly M. Murphy, 38, Tomah, was charged May 18 with resisting an officer causing substantial bodily harm, battery to a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property. Murphy punched a La Crosse County Sheriff’s Deputy May 17, then resisted arrest and the deputy broke his hand punching Murphy in return, according to the complaint. Murphy argued with a woman and broke a potted plant by throwing it at the wall prior to the deputy’s arrival.
Andrew Rieck

Andrew R. Rieck, 33, La Crosse, was charged May 18 with possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia, both as a repeat offender. Rieck had a syringe with meth inside May 17, according to the complaint.
Gregory Proulx Jr

Gregory A. Proulx Jr., 41, La Crosse, was charged May 14 with being a fugitive. Proulx was wanted in Houston County, Minn., after he was accused of violating the terms of his probation, according to the complaint.
Taylor Murphy
Taylor J. Murphy, 26, was charged May 12 with substantial battery, damage to property, disorderly conduct and misdemeanor bail jumping, all as a repeat offender. On March 26, it was reported Murphy had physically assaulted a man with a bolt cutter, and damaged the man's vehicle on Winneshiek Road, cracking the windshield, smashing the two side mirrors and damaging the trunk, front grill and driver's side door, which Murphy admitted to, according to the complaint.
Jeffrey Brandt
Jeffrey D. Brandt, 49, La Crosse, was charged May 12 with felony bail jumping and possession of methamphetamine and THC. Brandt was found with a pill bottle containing drug paraphernalia, which included an unidentified "tan powdery substance," after officers were dispatched to the scene near Liberty and Gillette streets for reports of a fight on March 22, according to the complaint.
Timothy Tennant
Timothy J. Tennant, 21, La Crosse, was charged May 12 with strangulation and suffocation, false imprisonment, battery and disorderly conduct. Early on March 31, Tennant trapped his girlfriend in their bedroom during an argument. The fight became physical, and Tennant attempted to strangle the woman several times, according to the complaint.
Jarel Jenkins

Jarel D. Jenkins, 25, La Crosse, was charged May 11 with second-and-subsequent-office possession with intent to deliver amphetamines, felon in possession of a firearm, possession of burlglary tools and possession of drug paraphernalia, all as a repeat offender. Jenkins had 6.4 grams of methamphetamine, a pry-bar, a ski mask, a digital scale and a .22-caliber revolver May 6 when he was found passed out behind the wheel on George Street, according to the complaint.
Robert Watrud
Robert L. Watrud, 39, Whitehall, was charged May 8 with possession of methamphetamine and issuing worthless checks, both as a repeat offender. Watrud had meth April 26 when he was arrested for purchasing items at Coulee Region RV for $330.20 using a check from an inactive account, according to the complaint.
Jonlazaire Burch

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Chad Kelemen

Chad E. Kelemen, 40, La Crosse, was charged May 5 with throwing bodily fluid at a public safety worker, resisting or obstructing an officer, criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct, all as a repeat offender. Kelemen punched a door, breaking it, and broke a television May 5, then tried to run from police and spit at a jailer, according to the complaint.
Trevor Midtlien

Trevor A. Midtlien, 28, La Crosse, was charged May 5 with strangulation and suffocation, battery, disorderly conduct and felony bail jumping. Midtlien choked a woman May 4, then punched her and threatened her, according to the complaint.
Faraji Robinson

Faraji Y. Robinson, 28, La Crosse, was charged May 4 with felony bail jumping and disorderly conduct. Robinson pushed a woman April 25 while out on bond forbidding him to have contact with her, according to the complaint.
Marquise Smith

Marquise T. Smith, 22, La Crosse, was charged May 1 with intimidating a victim using force, battery, disorderly conduct and misdemeanor bail jumping. Smith beat a woman Thursday, causing bleeding and bruising on her lips and a goose egg on the back of her head, and said he would come back for her if she talked to police, according to the complaint.
The following people have been charged with a felony in La Crosse County.
The following people have been charged with a felony in La Crosse County.
The following people have been charged with a felony in La Crosse County.
The following people have been charged with a felony in La Crosse County.
The following people have been charged with a felony in La Crosse County.
The following people have been charged with a felony in La Crosse County.
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