Thursday, April 02, 2009

Former Officer Collin Jacobson Charged with Stalking


A former Wisconsin Dells police officer who was sued in November for allegedly forcing two National Guardsmen to lick urine from the ground was charged Thursday with stalking his former girlfriend.

Collin H. Jacobson, 21, of Lake Delton, is free on a signature bond after appearing in Dane County Circuit Court on Thursday, where he was charged with stalking, false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery.

Jacobson was arrested on March 25 after going to the woman’s home in Sun Prairie a day earlier, purportedly to exchange belongings, but refused to leave and punched her in the arm, according to a criminal complaint.

Jacobson and another former officer, Wayne W. Thomas, 19, allegedly forced the guardsmen in June to lick what was assumed to be urine from the ground after accusing them of urinating in public. Thomas was fired immediately and Jacobson was suspended. A lawsuit against the officers and the city of Wisconsin Dells is pending in federal court.

According to the complaint:

Jacobson and the woman broke up in November, and he took a job with the Albuquerque, N.M., Police Department. He soon quit and returned to Wisconsin, then began contacting the woman’s family, her friends and her current boyfriend, she told police.

Jacobson would see her at parties and threaten to report her for underage drinking if she didn’t do what he wanted, she told police. He also appeared to be watching and following her, she said. When she threatened to call police, she said, he told her to go ahead, because he could talk them out of doing anything. In January police warned him to stop his stalking behavior.

On March 24, he called her at home and asked to exchange belongings, and she reluctantly let him in, she told police. But he refused to leave, and when she tried leave he blocked the door and held her against the wall by her throat. She tried to run for the door again later but he grabbed her from behind and held her to the floor, she told police.

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