Four criminal cases have been filed in 3 1/2 years against a Waupaca man.
Christopher J. Yakich, 41, was charged May 22 with felony bail jumping and threatening harm with unlawful use of a phone.
On Sunday, May 20, Yakich’s mother reported he called and asked her to relay a message to his brother.
Yakich allegedly said he had a can of gas and a 2-foot pipe he would use to burn his brother’s house down and beat him to the point where he had to drink out of a straw.
He was arrested, then released from custody on a $1,000 signature bond with the condition that Yakich have no contact with his mother.
Yakich currently has three unresolved criminal cases.
On Jan. 12, 2015, he was charged with misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct.
Yakich was accused of fighting with the owner’s son at the metal shop in Waupaca where he worked.
He was released from custody on a $1,000 signature bond with the condition that he have no contact with the business or the victim named in the criminal complaint.
Yakich was scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 20, 2015. That same day, the metal shop owner showed Waupaca police a number of text messages Yakich allegedly sent between Jan. 6 and Jan. 19.
Yakich’s messages criticized the charges brought against him, allege he has been secretly recording conversations at the metal shop and threaten to reveal damaging information about the business.
He was then charged with two counts of felony intimidation of a witness, threatening harm using a computer message, threatening injury to a business and misdemeanor bail jumping.
On Feb. 6, 2017, he was in Waupaca County jail when Yakich allegedly spit on another inmate for farting.
Between November 2012 and September 2013, Waupaca County prosecutors filed eight separate criminal cases against Yakich.
In November 2013, he was convicted of three counts of disorderly conduct and five counts of felony bail jumping and placed on four years of probation.