Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Court Commissioner Tells Caledonia Man He Can't Live With Elderly Woman

After drinking an entire bottle of tequila, Martin Jacob allegedly beat an elderly woman after she wouldn't get him more booze. Now he's facing a felony battery charge.

UPDATE Feb. 8, 2012: Martin Jacobs appeared in court without a lawyer. Racine County Court Commissioner Alice Rudebusch denied a request made by the victim that Jacobs could stay with her in the house because police had to Taser him numerous times and the violent nature of the case. Rudebusch told Jacobs he had to get a lawyer, the matter has been held over for a status conference at 8:30 a.m. at Feb. 15, 2012.

ORIGINAL STORY: A man, who was accused of attacking, beating and choking an elderly woman after she wouldn’t get him more alcohol, had to be Tasered six times by officers during his arrest.

Martin Jacobs, 37, of Caledonia, was charged with a felony count of aggravated battery-elderly and resisting arrest by the Racine County District Attorney’s Office on Friday.

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officers were called for a report of a man who was allegedly choking and punching a woman at 6:25 a.m. Thursday Feb. 2, 2012 in the 1600 block of September Drive, according to a report by the Caledonia Police Department.

Sgt. Brian Wall, one of the officers who responded to the call, reported that he listened to the 911 call the woman made after she locked her self in a room. According to the report, Jacobs allegedly broke down the door. The woman was heard “shouting and screaming at (Jacobs), asking him to stop, to stop hitting her and asking what she has done to him.” Jacobs told the woman “to die” and he threatened to kill her as she cried out in pain. Dropping the phone, the woman escaped and officers arrived on scene. The woman ran outside and told officers what had happened and that Jacobs was still in the house.

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Officers told Jacobs to come out of his room with his hands up, but instead he charged down the hallway at the officers screaming that he was going to kill them. Seeing that Jacobs’ hands were empty, the officer holstered his gun and drew his Taser instead. As Jacobs continued to charge toward the police officer, he and another officer used their Tasers four times on the man and Tasered him two more times while they arrested him.

After being arrested, Jacobs yelled at an officer who was reading the domestic abuse offender form saying: “May you suffer the fate of your ancestors with your death coming from the thousands of pores on your body.”

When Wall interviewed Jacobs, he denied hitting, punching, kicking and biting the woman. Jacobs told Wall that he did push her and she pushed him back. He also admitted to having his hands around his mother’s neck, but he told Wall he didn’t squeeze her neck. Jacobs didn’t remember threatening police. When he was being Tasered, the man said it “really did not affect him.”

Jacobs, who has a mental illness, was on about 10 different prescription medications, and wasn’t supposed to drink while taking them, but he had drank an entire bottle of tequila. The woman said Jacobs doesn’t belong in jail, but he needs to be put in an assisted living facility.

Jacobs posted a $2,500 cash bond. He's expected to have a preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. Feb. 8.


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