July 7, 2014 at 3:18 p.m.
Strangulation alleged in Minocqua
Strangulation alleged in Minocqua
Jacinto Colunga Olmeda, 46, of Harlingen, Texas, was charged last week with four criminal counts, including felony strangulation and suffocation, and misdemeanor disorderly conduct, battery and violation of a no-contact order.
All charges contain domestic abuse enhancers.
According to the criminal complaint:
Shortly after midnight on July 1, a clerk at the AmericInn hotel in Minocqua called police to report a female screaming and claiming she was being choked.
The officer who first arrived on scene located Olmeda in a hotel room. He was alone, according to a police report, as the alleged victim had fled to a parking lot.
Police reports indicate the alleged victim was upset that a family member had recently died. The woman wanted to leave immediately to see her family, but Olmeda said he did not want to travel because both he and the woman had been drinking.
The alleged victim claimed the argument escalated and Olmeda "grabbed her by the neck and held her down" on a bed. She also alleged sexual assault, but declined to be examined at a hospital.
Olmeda has not been charged with sexual assault. He is a registered sex offender, according to a police report.
In conversations with police, Olmeda denied choking the woman and the sexual assault allegation. He claimed she threw a can of beer at him and slapped him in the face.
After interviewing Olmeda, the alleged victim and a witness, police determined Olmeda was the primary aggressor and arrested him.
While in jail, Olmeda tried multiple times to call the woman in violation of a 72-hour no-contact order, authorities allege.
Olmeda told police he and the woman were in town to work on a remodeling job in Presque Isle.
If convicted on all counts, Olmeda faces more than seven years in prison and a $31,000 fine.
Jonathan Anderson may be reached at [email protected].
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