GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Keshena woman who admitted stealing electronics and DVDs is facing multiple charges in Brown County.
27-year-old Dawn Haney is charged with two counts of theft of moveable property, driving or operating a motor vehicle without consent, obstructing an officer and two counts of bail jumping.
According to the criminal complaint, a Green Bay man call police on January 28 to report a possible burglary and auto theft. The victim to an officer that Haney was staying at his apartment for couple days. But when he arrived home from work, items were missing from the apartment and the vehicle was gone.
Among the items stolen were an Xbox 360, some Xbox games, about 75 DVDs, a cigarette roller and a bag of tobacco.
The complaint states that the victim said, “A friend hooked the two of them up and he drove to Keshena to pick up Dawn on New Year’s Eve. They had started a relationship and she had been living in his apartment since then.” The man said that Haney doesn’t have a cell phone, and was unsure where she was going since he thought she was homeless.
Then two days later, the complaint states that a vehicle was pulled over by police after trying to speed away from the cops. There was a driver and two passengers inside. The officer ran the license plate of the vehicle and it came back stolen.
One of the passengers inside identified herself as Sabrina M. Draxler. However the complaint states, “She initially spelled her last name Darxler. The female then spelled it Dralxer. The female finally spelled her last name Draxler.”
The spelling errors, along with a Brown County Jail mugshots search, it was clear the girl was not telling the truth. She then identified herself as Dawn Laverne Marie Haney, who had two warrants out of Shawano County.
According to the complaint, Haney said she had been living at the apartment with the victim for about a month. She told police that on January 28, “I left him at work and went to a couple doctor’s appointments scheduled that day. She stated after the appointments she went over to an unknown address,” to speak with two men.
She claims both men, after talking about her living situation, talked her into going back to the apartment and take some items. Haney goes on to say she stole the electronic items and sold them at two different stores. She then parked the vehicle at an unknown address on Cherry Street, “because she was afraid to drive around in the vehicle.”
She said a friend of hers agreed to drive the vehicle from Cherry Street allegedly to drop it off on Ashland Avenue. However, the complaint states that she never thought the vehicle was listed as stolen.
According to the complaint, an officer asked Dawn why she did this and she, “stated that she was stupid.” Haney admitted to knowing she was in a lot of trouble, but didn’t think that the victim would report his vehicle as stolen.
Some of the stolen items have been returned to the victim.
Haney is due back in Brown County court for a preliminary hearing February 9. If convicted of all charges, Haney faces over 15 years in prison.
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