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WOLF RIVER WEDNESDAY SHAWANO LEADER WWW.NEWMEDIA-WI.COM Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Volume 138, Issue 128 $1 Hate crime charges filed against teen Payton Pagel is expected to face hate crime charges in addition to the vandalism and theft charges he was originally arrested for. PAGE 2 Gresham school expansion still on right track The $6.5 million expansion project at Gresham Community School is still on schedule and on budget. PAGE 4 Bonduel gets new athletic director With the departure of Luka Zischka, Bonduel School District has named Matt Dale as its athletic director. PAGE 26 MUSIC ON THE GOLF COURSE A crowd gathers at the Shawano Lake Golf Course on Saturday night for a free concert by the Vic Ferrari band. The event was part of the eighth annual Vic Ferrari golf outing sponsored by the Menominee Casino Resort benefitting local charities and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. GREG MELLIS | NEW MEDIA PAGE 2t/&8.&%*"twww.newmedia-wi.comtWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019 SHAWANO LEADER (USPS 492-120) Published Wednesdays and Saturdays Teen faces hate crime charges by NEW Media Inc d/b/a The Shawano Leader Periodicals postage paid at for vandalism incidents Shawano, Wisconsin 54166 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Shawano a motor ve- Leader, 1464 E. Green Bay St., Shawano WI 54166 Graffiti at 2 schools included racial slurs and hicle without the owner’s consent if convicted. Office swastika, according to criminal complaint He is also 1464 E. Green Bay St., Shawano, WI 54166 By TIM RYAN incidents, according to the criminal charged with Telephone Reporter complaint. felony criminal 715-526-2121 According to the complaint, Pagel damage to prop- FAX: 715-524-3941 SHAWANO — A Shawano teen told police, “I did the high school,” erty, which carries already charged with auto theft and and said he was present during the the same possible PAYTON PAGEL vandalism has also been charged with vandalism at Olga Brener Intermediate penalty, and felony Publisher hate crimes for grafti painted on two School. theft, which carries Greg Mellis [email protected] Shawano schools. Pagel was arrested after police a maximum 10 years in prison and Editor-In-Chief The grafti found at Shawano Com- received a tip that he was involved in $25,000 fne. Carol Ryczek [email protected] munity Middle School on July 22 and a car theft in the city Monday morning He is also charged with seven mis- City Editor Shawano Community High School on and that there was a Snapchat video of demeanor counts of criminal damage Lee Pulaski [email protected] Aug. 7 included obscene images, racial him and another person in the stolen to property, including mailboxes that slurs, a swastika and a reference to car. were reported vandalized along Robin Sports Editor “88,” which in some circles stands for The car was reported stolen in the Lane on Tuesday morning. Morgan Rode [email protected] “Heil Hitler,” according to the criminal 1000 block of East Zingler Avenue According to the complaint, Pagel Obituaries complaint. around 9 a.m. Monday and was later told police he engaged in his crimes [email protected] Payton M. Pagel, 18, is charged with found on Riverbend Circle “almost because he was bored. Classifieds/legal notices three counts of criminal damage to in the water,” according to the police “Pagel stated Shawano is boring [email protected] property and three counts of making report. and there is nothing for kids his age to lewd, obscene or indecent drawings. Police contacted Pagel for question- do,” the complaint states. “Pagel stated Retail advertising Normally, those would be misde- ing, but he failed to show up at the po- it was just teenagers and teenager [email protected] meanors, but each of those counts lice station, according to the criminal stuf. Pagel stated he and his friends [email protected] carries a hate crime enhancement that complaint. would be sitting around and looking Calendar items (free) makes them felonies and could result On Tuesday, another vehicle was for things to do and this is the kind of [email protected] in a maximum two years in prison and reported stolen in the 1200 block of things they thought up.” Birch Hill Lane and was found crashed Subscriptions $10,000 fne if found guilty. Judge James Habeck set a $5,000 Pagel was arrested Tuesday in con- into a tree in the 800 block of South signature bond for Pagel. Subscription, delivery or payment question? nection with two auto thefts that alleg- Prospect Street around 6 a.m. Pagel is due back in court Sept. 3 Call 715-526-2121 edly took place Monday and Tuesday. According to the criminal com- for an initial appearance on the new 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday-Friday He was charged with those crimes and plaint, Pagel admitted to being in- charges and an adjourned initial ap- [email protected] with vandalism for damage done to volved in both vehicle thefts. pearance on the charges previously mailboxes during his joy rides. Pagel could face a maximum six fled. years in prison and a $10,000 fne on RATES In interviews with police, Pa- gel further admitted to the grafti each of the two counts of operating [email protected] Print Print single issue: $1 Wednesdays, $2 Saturdays Prepaid nonrefundable 12 months: $119 Carrier; $127 Motor; $151 Mail - WI Nelson prelim hearing moved back to Sept. 16 $164 Mail - outside WI By DAVID WILHELMS Ford F250 pickup truck, rented by ruled in Shawano County Probate www.newmedia-wi.com Correspondent brothers Nick and Justin Diemel, Court Aug. 1 that it appeared the 1-day. $0.99 Bonduel, on their arrival in Missouri brothers are deceased and there was 3-mo (90-day introductory offer) $12 KINGSTON, Mo. — Garland “Joey” on July 20, from his farm in Braymer a demonstrated need for a special ad- Month-to-month $10 Nelson will remain jailed in Caldwell to a commuter parking lot in Holt, ministrator. He granted Lisa Diemel, Prepaid 12 month, nonrefundable, $99 County, Missouri, without bond where it was abandoned. Nick’s wife, special administrator Print plus online nonrefundable package before facing a Sept. 16 preliminary The brothers disappeared July 21 rights to operate the cattle business hearing on felony tampering with a while visiting Nelson’s farm about a as well as manage family matters. $137 Carrier; $145 Motor; $173 Mail - WI; vehicle. cattle deal. Human remains found on In other court action, no cameras $189 Mail - outside WI Nelson, 25, requested the continu- the farm, about 70 miles northeast of will be allowed in the courtroom, ation on Aug. 15 when he appeared Kansas City, have not been identifed. according to an Aug. 13 mutual agree- Member, Wisconsin Newspaper Assoiation before Judge Jason Kanoy via video Authorities investigating the case ment with Ryan Williams, Nelson’s link from the county detention cen- have described Nelson as their lone public defender, and Brady Kopek, ter. suspect in the brothers’ presumed Caldwell County prosecuting at- He is accused of driving a white deaths. Judge William Kussel Jr. torney. CORRECTIONS Accuracy is important to the Shawano Leader, and it wants to correct mistakes promptly. Call errors to our attention by phone at 715-526-2121, ext. 7018 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019 t/&8.&%*"tXXXOFXNFEJBXJDPNtPAGE 3 5 arrested this week in 2 city drug busts were arrested. possession of methamphetamine Braz is also facing felony charges Authorities executed Around 6 a.m. Thursday, police near a public park, maintaining a of third-degree sexual assault and and sherif’s deputies executed a drug trafcking place and second or possession with intent to deliver 4 drug search drug search warrant in the 1200 subsequent possession of marijuana. methamphetamine in a separate block of South Lafayette Street. They face possible penalties of 3½ criminal complaint also fled Friday. A 24-year-old Shawano man and years in prison and $10,000 fne on Shawano police interviewed warrants in 3 weeks a 23-year-old Shawano woman were most of the drug counts, and up to the sexual assault victim Friday at arrested on multiple drug charges. 12½ years in prison and a $25,000 fne ThedaCare Medical Center. She told By TIM RYAN In the previous two weeks, drug if convicted of possession with intent police she had done meth with Braz Reporter search warrants were executed and to deliver methamphetamine. at the River Street address prior to arrests made in the town of Rich- They’re each als0 charged with the assault. SHAWANO — Authorities ar- mond and the town of Wescott. felony bail jumping, which carries Braz was ordered held on a $1,500 rested two people in Shawano early Shawano Police Chief Dan Mauel a maximum penalty of six years in cash bond for the drug charges and Thursday on multiple drug charges, said the surge of unrelated, high- prison and a $10,000 fne. a $5,000 cash bond on the sexual as- including distributing meth and profle drug busts has been a combi- Subjects arrested in the River sault charge by Judge James Habeck. running a drug house, only 12 hours nation of law enforcement targeting Street drug bust Wednesday in- Braz is due back in court for an ad- after executing another drug search drug houses and a refection of just cluded Bret J. Dodge Sr., 28, and Lydi journed initial appearance Sept. 3. warrant in the city that netted three how big the drug problem is in the V. Dodge, 25, both of Shawano, and Habeck set a $5,000 cash bond arrests.