Hit and run away

TOWNSHIP OF LEBANON – Just after midnight on June 13, the Waupaca County Communication teams received a iPhone crash detection notice coming from the Township of Lebanon, just outside of New London. A motorcyclist was heading north on US Highway 45 and a Chevy Impala was turning off County Trunk D onto the highway to go southbound. The motorcyclist hit the front of the vehicle, went flying and was badly injured. The driver of the vehicle took off on foot before deputies arrived.
A female passenger in the Impala called 911. The motorcyclist was bloody and unresponsive but breathing erratically. Debris was all over the road. A New London police officer arrived and was told the Impala driver split from the scene.
The motorcyclist wore a holster but his sidearm was missing. An officer later found it on the shoulder of the highway and secured it. Medical help arrived and the motorcyclist was flown by helicopter to Thedacare in Neenah.
There were two female passengers in the Impala and they were uninjured. They provided the name of the driver: Joseph P. Kabble, a boyfriend of one of the female witnesses. They left a tavern in Bear Creek after a night of drinking.
One of the females said that after the accident, Kabble went over to body of the motorcyclist and yelled, “I killed him” and walked west on County Trunk D.
Deputy Muske arrived and with the help of a Grand Chute drone operator and other law enforcement agents from the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Department, they searched the area but could not find Kabble.
Officers found two baggies of marijuana in the center console and a glass pipe in the Impala.
They called Kabble’s cell phone. No answer. Deputies went to his residence. No answer.
The next morning at 6:20, Kabble showed up at the Waupaca Sheriff’s Office and said, “I’m here to turn myself in from a hit and run crash last night.” He had a small cut on the top of his head and his eyes were bloodshot. Deputy Casari interviewed him and Kabble said he wasn’t going to talk without a lawyer.
Casari advised him he would be served a search warrant for his blood as the bloodshot eyes were a clue to alcohol consumption and he was placed under arrest and put in handcuffs.
Forty minutes later, Judge Nielsen provided a search warrant for a blood sample and Kabble was transported to Thedacare Waupaca. By 7:41 a.m., they had two vials of Kabble’s blood and he was put in the county jail.
Kabble has been charged with Hit and Run—Great Bodily Harm (a Class E felony) and Operating While Intoxicated Causing Injury—2nd Offense.