Man charged with berating, threatening, spitting at cops

A 34-year-old man who authorities suspect was drunk when he crashed his pickup truck on Highway 33 in the Town of Saukville Sunday afternoon has been charged in Ozaukee County Circuit Court with berating, threatening to kill and spitting at officers.

Neenah resident Carson L. Nelsen, who faces a litany of felony and misdemeanor charges, is also accused of damaging a squad car door and breaking a hospital monitor.

Twice officers had to restrain him with The WRAP, a full-body device used to subdue combative suspects.

According to a criminal complaint, Ozaukee County sheriff’s deputies who responded to a report of a swerving pickup truck that crashed into a guardrail on Highway 33 near Highway I at 3 p.m. Oct. 1 found Nelsen slumped over the steering wheel of the truck.

Deputy David Marquardt, who noticed the strong smell of alcohol coming from the truck, was able to wake up Nelsen, who was unable to provide identification and refused to get out of the truck, the complaint states.

Marquardt and Saukville police officer Brandin Depies opened one of the truck’s doors, but Nelsen tried to close it. He eventually got out of the truck and began calling the officers names.

Nelsen was handcuffed but pushed back when Marquardt tried to put him in his patrol vehicle. Nelsen then raised his leg as if he was going to kick the deputy, then stuck his foot in the door to prevent him from closing it.

Marquardt looked in the truck to try and find identification for Nelsen and found his wallet, an open bottle of whiskey and an empty beer can in the center console.

When Marquardt tried talking to Nelsen to confirm his identity, Nelsen threatened him, saying he would murder the deputy, according to the complaint.

Nelsen then cut himself by slamming his head against a partition in the patrol vehicle. He also kicked the window and door of the vehicle.

While Marquardt was driving Nelsen to Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Nelsen said to the deputy, “I’ll shatter your face,” “I will be happy to murder you,” and “I hope you die in a crash,” while kicking the patrol vehicle door, according to the complaint.

When Marquardt got out of the vehicle, he noticed the rear door was bent.

At the hospital, Grafton police officers arrived with their WRAP restraint to control Nelsen.

While he was being examined by medical staff, Nelsen became belligerent toward two nurses trying to help and, during a tirade, kicked a monitor and broke it.

After Nelsen was cleared to leave the hospital, officers were trying to handcuff him when Nelsen spit at and tried to knee one officer in the head. He was eventually secured again in a WRAP restraint and taken to jail.

Nelsen is charged with threatening a law enforcement officer, discharging bodily fluids at an officer and attempted battery of an officer, all felonies, and misdemeanor counts of third-offense operating while intoxicated, criminal damage to property, obstructing an officer and disorderly conduct.

Nelsen, who is charged in Shawano County with second and subsequent offence possession of marijuana and third-offense operating while intoxicated and was free on bail at the time of his arrest in Saukville, is also charged in Ozaukee County with felony and misdemeanor bail jumping.

Nelsen is being held in the county jail in lieu of $30,000 bail.