APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – A suspect accused of attacking a woman on Appleton’s Newberry Trail has pled no contest to one of the charges against him.
Online court records indicate 18-year-old Milan Stewart pled no contest to second-degree recklessly endangering safety on Thursday. A deferred sentence will be issued on a strangulation count, while charges of false imprisonment and battery were dropped.
Stewart is due to be sentenced May 12.
Authorities say Stewart attacked a woman running on the trail July 4, believing the woman was someone he knew and he only meant it as a joke.
The criminal complaint states that Stewart told police he wasn’t going to assault the woman. Stewart also said he ran away because he was scared.
