Crime & Safety
Beer Dispute Leads to Pool Cue Battery
Suspect hit a man in the face with a pool cue at Saloon on Calhoun after he claimed the bartender was ripping him off, charges allege.
A Brookfield man is facing nearly four years in prison after he allegedly hit another man in the face with a pool cue at Saloon on Calhoun.
Kyle J. Filbrandt, 22, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Tuesday with one count of substantial battery and one count of disorderly conduct. If convicted, he faces up to three years and nine months in prison, and $11,000 in fines.
According to the criminal complaint:
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On Sept. 2, Filbrandt bought a pitcher and accused the bartender of ripping him off. The bartender's boyfriend was sitting at the bar and asked why she would cheat him.
Filbrandt called the man’s aunt a name. He walked away from the bar, grabbed a pool cue, hit the victim on the left side of the head and ran out of the bar with the stick in his hand, the complaint alleges.
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Filbrandt is scheduled to make his initial court appearance Jan. 9.
