Plea Entered in Officer Assault Case
02/24/2016

(KNZA)--A Hiawatha man accused of assaulting two officers with a screw driver has entered into a plea agreement.

51-year-old Jeronimo Bouttier pleaded “ no contest” Monday in Brown County District Court to two counts of aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer, one count of felony criminal damage to property and one count of misdemeanor criminal damage to property.  In exchange for the plea, a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct was dismissed.

Sentencing was set for March 28th.

Bouttier was charged with assaulting two officers with a screw driver after they responded in December to a domestic disturbance call at the Sunflower Motel in Hiawatha.

He was also charged with breaking a plate glass window out of the Physical and Respiratory Therapy Services building in downtown Hiawatha and damaging two doors at the Sunflower Motel.

Bouttier remains in the Brown County Jail.



   
 


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