Burglary suspect now faces drug charges

Charges were filed after paramedics and police responded twice in six months to drug overdoses at the same home.
Dustin J. Raasch, 26, Clintonville, is charged with felony possession of narcotics, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and three counts each of felony and misdemeanor bailjumping.
On July 28, 2015, Raasch, and Casie L. Bessette, 20, Clintonville, appeared in Waupaca County Circuit Court on charges of burglary and theft as party to a crime.
They were released on signature bonds, and the case is still unresolved.
Shortly after 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 26, Clintonville Police Officers Anthony Arietta, Wade Wudtke and Matthew Wright were dispatched to a home on East 14th Street.
When they arrived, they spoke with Bessette, who said there were people in her home and she needed them to leave.
According to the criminal complaint, Bessette then told the officers they had entered her home through the bathroom floor. She then attempted to lift a floor tile that was securely in place. She also claimed somebody was hiding in her couch.
Raasch, who lives with Bessette, said he had been trying to calm her down. He also told the officers Bessette believed somebody was hiding in the mattress and told him to stab it to prove nobody was there.
Bessette told Arietta she had not slept for four days and had called an ambulance the night before because she was feeling ill due to a drug overdose. Bruises on her arm looked like needle marks, the complaint says.
An ambulance arrived and transported Bessette to a Shawano hospital.
Raasch reportedly told Wright he and Bessette had been shooting up Percocet. The officer reported seeing track marks on Raasch’s arm.
Wright found needles, cotton swabs, metal caps with dried residue and one cap with liquid in a red tin in a bedroom drawer.
Shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, Clintonville police were again dispatched to the 14th Street home.
When Officer Dennis Schroeder and Sgt. Andrew Hofensperger arrived, they found an ambulance crew already at the scene. The paramedics were treating Bessette, who was sitting up in the bed.
Bessette told Schroeder she had been clean for 21 days, but Raasch brought some heroin home, and they both shot up, the complaint says.
Police seized a box of syringes, some unopened alcohol rubs and tourniquets at the scene.
Raasch reportedly told police he uses heroin every day.
At this time, prosecutors have not filed drug-related charges against Bessette.
lock him up for good.
Makes me sad all these addicts with little kids 🙁
They were released on signature bond…wonder what happens next? (clue: Already shooting up)
Very sad
Very sad
Katie Watters
Katie Watters
This isnt something to joke about this is sad and scary u all wouldnt b joking if it was ur own family member
Cassie i hope u get help
Lock them up. They need help
Why do they let these people out on signature bonds so they can keep doing it.
Throw the book at him and twist the judge’s arm to get tough on this problem.
God Casie, please get the help you need so that you can remain in your sons life, healthy and well!
They r both in the wrong… They have a little boy and instead the drugs got the best of them… But instead of people trying to help they want to talk… Once u r hooked it is hard to get away from it… But it’s not only his fault she is her own person and didn’t have to shoot up….
He is a father to three children. And it doesn’t just affect him and his gf. It’s not easy to get off the drugs and I pray they find a way to get clean and stay clean and this is not the whole story. This story makes him out to me the worst person ever and he isn’t and it wasn’t mostly him. You people need to learn the real and whole story. I think they do need to be punished for everything they have done by law but I hope they can get it reduced and get mandatory rehab. Just locking someone up won’t fix anything. These two need prayers and guidance on how to face the addiction but first they need to want it. Instead of being mean how about you say a prayer for them instead of letting these drugs take over their life’s compeltely!
Is there ever any good news in the Waupaca County Post? I grew up in Waupaca and all I ever see in my Facebook timeline is drug and burglary cases. Surely that can’t be all that’s happening in Waupaca / Waupaca County these days?
Poor poor victim drug addict leave him alone leave him alone he will be better all on his own. Oh woa is him.
Why don’t they keep these people in jail until they go to court so they can’t keep spreading this cancer around town?