GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A man is due in court later this month for allegedly damaging a woman’s apartment and holding her against her will during an argument.
41-year-old Ruben L. Wells is charged with felony false imprisonment and misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Both counts have repeater enhancers.
According to the criminal complaint, Ashwaubenon Public Safety officers were called to an apartment in the 2000 block of Carstensen Lane for a report of a man punching a door.
A woman told officers that she met Ruben Wells about a month-and-a-half ago and she allowed him to stay at her place because he needed someplace to go. Wells lived there for about a week-and-a-half, but was allegedly known to steal items from a neighboring apartment.
On August 11, the woman told officers that Wells, “punched her second floor bedroom door two times, putting holes in it.” She says that Wells was upset with her because he wanted her phone.
She claims that her phone was put in her purse and kept, “at the neighbors because she did not trust Ruben.” At that point, she got dressed and went downstairs. She opened the front door, but then Wells allegedly pushed it shut and locked the lock and deadbolt.
The complaint states that Wells told her, “You are not going to tell your friends.” She then went to the back door and Wells followed, pushing that door closed, locking it and saying, “You aren’t going anywhere.” She yelled at him that she was going to get her phone, at which point, Wells allowed her to leave.
After Wells attempted to get away from officers as they arrived on scene, he was taken into custody. Wells allegedly told the cops that he and the woman had, “an argument over some stolen items in the apartment which Ruben stated she had stolen.” He said that he, “had enough, packed up all his things and placed them by the door.”
According to online court records, Wells was convicted of felony misappropriate ID info-obtain money, along with misdemeanor counts of fraudulent use of a credit card and theft-moveable property on October 21, 2014 and sentenced to 3 years’ probation.
Wells is due in Brown County court for his preliminary hearing on September 15. If convicted of all counts, he faces more than 12 years in prison.
