OCONOMOWOC, Wisconsin (AP) -- A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.
"Now I feel stupid," said James Van Iveren, who has been charged in the case. "This really is nothing, nothing but a mistake."
According to a criminal complaint, the neighbor told police that Van Iveren pounded on the door and kicked it open without warning February 12, damaging the frame and lock.
"Where is she?" Van Iveren demanded, thrusting the sword at the neighbor, the complaint said. "Where is she?"
The neighbor told police Van Iveren became increasingly aggressive as he repeated the question, insisting that he had heard a woman being raped. The complaint said that, with the sword pointed at him, the neighbor led Van Iveren throughout the apartment, opening closet doors to prove he was alone.
The neighbor later played for police the part of the DVD he believed Van Iveren heard downstairs.
Van Iveren, 39, of Oconomowoc, was charged with criminal trespass, criminal damage and disorderly conduct, all while using a dangerous weapon, and is scheduled to appear in court March 5. Together, the misdemeanor counts carry a maximum sentence of 33 months in jail.
Van Iveren said Tuesday that he heard a woman "screaming for help," grabbed the sword, bounded up the stairs, kicked in the apartment door and confronted the man who lived there.
"I intended to hold it behind my back and knock. But I froze and instead, what happened happened," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Contesting his neighbor's account, Van Iveren said he didn't look anywhere in the apartment except the front room, and that he never threatened the neighbor with the sword.
"I had the sword extended, but that was all," he said.
Van Iveren, who lives with his mother in the downstairs apartment, said he did not call police when he heard the noises because he does not have a telephone. He said he barely knew the upstairs tenant.
Police seized Van Iveren's sword, which he said was a family heirloom.
Sometimes JJ watches with mute on when he knows his neighbor is home for this reason precisely. Is it possible his paranoia has averted a similar situation? Perhaps in a parallel universe the Parallel JJ watches his porn without muting and is raped by his neighbor with a bowling pin. Then the Parallel JJ dies from collapsed lungs when the bowling pin reaches its maximum depth. Parallel JJ's body isnt found for a month. Parallel Marvin-the-Cat has resorted to eating the rotting remains of Parallel JJ. Parallel JJ's Mom would have to bury a sexually mutilated, half mummified, half eaten youngest son.
He thinks it proper to watch on mute.
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That dude lived with his mother. Ha.
Beforw we moved into our neighborhood a man lived across our street who was the proverbial weird-old-cat-man. Said man ended up dying and his feline friends feasted on his decaying remains - soft parts first! When police (one of whom I'm friends with, thus the super specific details) entered the residence, about nine cats immediately vacated the premesis. But these cats now had the taste of blood and were very scary and angry. Animal control had to find all of the cats and kill them before they started attacking children and dogs.
True story.
JJ Dufresne, don't let this happen to you.
It's been a week. We're going through withdrawal.
Please.
What a sage, sage man that JJ.
Sorry I've been MIA. Still trying to catch up on old posts.
Did JJ miss me?!
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