By Patricia Bogumil
Interim editor
A 30-year-old West Allis man faces multiple charges after reportedly slitting his wrist, running a bloody hand up and down a Norway township officer’s face; stating that he had AIDS, the infectious disease; and asking the officer if he would like that.
According to the criminal complaint filed in Racine County Circuit Court:
Police and rescue personnel were called to a Nelson Court apartment building in the Town of Norway at 9:35 p.m., Dec. 10, in response to a report of a male who had cut his wrist open with a knife.
A witness told police that her boyfriend, Jesse C. Vogt, of West Allis, had slit his wrist and was acting crazy, appeared to be on drugs and was somewhere unknown inside the apartment.
After Vogt stepped outside, a Racine County Sheriff’s Department deputy asked Vogt to show his wrists.
Vogt refused. He began walking away, ignored verbal orders to stop and was then placed in a “blanket escort” by the deputy and town officer due to the large amount of blood on Vogt’s hand and wrist.
While being escorted to rescue personnel for treatment, Vogt pulled away, freed his right arm and then wrapped it around the town officer’s neck, rubbing his bloody right hand up and down the officer’s face.
After being again restrained, and while rescue personnel treated his wrists, Vogt told the officer that he had AIDS and asked the officer if he would like that.
Vogt’s girl friend told police that the incident had begun earlier in the day.
She said that Vogt had appeared “very amped up” when he arrived at the apartment. She said Vogt had quit his job that day and had an argument with his boss.
Vogt then continued to argue with his girlfriend and began making suicidal statements.
She said Vogt went up to the nine-year-old son and told the boy that he was going to kill himself by overdosing on cocaine.
Vogt then locked himself in the bathroom and slit his wrists open with a kitchen knife.
Vogt faces a felony charge for expelling blood at a public safety worker and misdemeanors for resisting an officer and disorderly conduct.
He is being charged as a repeat offender, with enhanced sentencing guidelines, for having been convicted of at least one felony or three misdemeanors in the last five years.
If convicted of all charges, Vogt faces a maximum of 12.5 years in prison, $21,000 in fines, or both.
Vogt is scheduled for a Dec. 29 preliminary hearing in Racine County Circuit Court.
He reportedly is a former Waterford area resident who attended Waterford Union High School.
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