A man is accused of breaking a coworker’s nose and giving him a concussion during a fight at a Hortonville auto business.
The Outagamie County District Attorney’s Office recommended charges of substantial battery and misdemeanor disorderly conduct be filed against Jeffery B. Reed, 58, Waupaca.
He faces up to 3 1/2 years in prison if convicted of battery.
According to the criminal complaint:
On June 22, 2018, Hortonville Police Officer Jason Sweeney was dispatched to Schmidt’s New London Auto Salvage on East Main Street for a disturbance. Dispatch said the reporting person asked for an ambulance because a man was knocked out during a fight.
Sweeney arrived and reported he spoke to a man standing next to a car whose face was “severely swollen” below his left eye. The man was dizzy and did not remember what happened.
Another worker told Sweeney that the man entered Reed’s office yelling and calling him an obscenity for not filling a gas tank.
The two men “belly bumped” before Reed punched the man in the face, causing him to fall to the floor and black out, according to the witness.
Reed allegedly picked up a wooden chair and raised it over the man before the witness yelled at him to stop.
Reed admitted to Sweeney he punched the man in the face, according to the complaint.
The man’s wife later told Sweeney he suffered a broken nose, whiplash, concussion and a small brain bleed because of his injuries.
Reed is scheduled to appear in court on May 30.