Crime & Safety

Northfield Man Charged with Assaulting Police Officers, Domestic Assault—Again

Micheal Lee Schwebach, 22, is charged with six crimes.

A Northfield man is in Rice County Jail after police say he threatened the life of his girlfriend and assaulted Northfield police officers.

Micheal Lee Schwebach, 22, is charged with six crimes—four felonies—that include terroristic threats, domestic assault and two counts of assaulting a peace officer. If convicted of all charges, he faces more than 21 years of imprisonment and/or $43,100 in fines.

Schwebach has been previously convicted of terroristic threats in June, domestic abuse, terroristic threats and and domestic assault in January, according to Minnesota Court records.

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He is currently on probation.

According to the criminal complaint filed with Rice County District Court:

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After a night of drinking, Schwebach got into an altercation with his girlfriend on the side of a road. After he allegedly shoved her down several times, injuring her knee and wrist, she was able to get away with the help of a friend. The girlfriend spoke with police and to report the alleged assault and said Schwebach had drank about a "half of bottle" of alcohol and said if she called police that he'd kill her. She also told police that Schwebach carries a knife with him.

Terms of Schweback's probation required him to wear a monitoring bracelet, which he cut off that night. Schweback had hitched a ride to the Big Steer, the complaint says, but managed to get back to Northfield and to the residence his girlfriend was at. He began beating on the door and she called police. 

Northfield Police arrived and attempted to arrest Schwebach, but he spat at officers, yelled obscenities and resisted arrest. Schwebach was eventually restrained and placed in a police car, but beat his head against the cage and ripped off the door handle, all the while threatening the officers. 

Officers used a Taser on Schwebach, but apparently had no effect. The complaint says he pulled the Taser probe out of his chest and smiled and kept saying, "Shoot him." Officers brought him to Northfield Hospital to subdue him but standard medicine didn't work. A shot of stronger medicine worked and he was secured to a hospital bed.

When Schwebach was released from the hospital to go to the jail, he refused to be shackled and threatened police. The complaint says he kicked one officer 18 times, causing bruising and swelling on his face, head and knee, and broke his glasses.


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