Dean Hoffmann
Joey Grundl
Posted on 10/02/2018 4:05:15 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Wis. – An alert pizza delivery driver helped save a woman from her abusive ex-boyfriend, police say. A 55-year-old Grafton man now faces several counts of domestic abuse after allegedly entering his ex-girlfriend's house uninvited, where he's alleged to have beaten and tied her up.
Police arrested Dean Hoffmann after the pizza delivery driver noticed a woman inside the house mouthing the words "help me." "It's kind of scary," said driver Joey Grundl. "Gave him his pizza, and noticed behind him was his girlfriend. She pointed to a black eye that was quite visible. She mouthed the words 'call police.'"
... the victim -- a 57-year-old woman -- started dating Hoffmann in 2016 and they lived together until August of 2018. After their breakup, the woman moved to a home...
Hoffmann entered her home without knocking and without her permission. She told Hoffmann to leave and grabbed her phone to call police. As she picked up her phone, Hoffmann allegedly ripped the phone out of her hands, grabbed her by the waist and dragged her toward steps that led upstairs.... Hoffmann shoved the victim, causing her to fall with her back on the steps, then pulled her hair, ripped her shirt and continued to try and drag her up the stairs. In an attempt to get away, the woman told investigators she hit Hoffmann in the groin. Hoffmann then punched her in the face, giving her a black eye and bloody nose....
Prosecutors say Hoffmann then forced her upstairs and onto her bed, binding her hands and feet with a power cord from her vacuum, then shoving a towel in her mouth to ensure "nobody would be able to hear her." The woman told investigators while she was tied up, she had trouble breathing and feared she was going to die. After about 30 minutes, Hoffmann untied her, but, for the next several hours, he would not let her leave her own house. The woman recalled telling Hoffmann, "If you love me, you will let me go" to which Hoffmann replied, "you know I can't do that."
The woman said Hoffmann remarked that he "should have brought his gun in from the car so that he could shoot both of them." Investigators say Hoffmann used the woman's phone to text her children, posing as the victim, telling them she was sick and not to come over for a few days. [snip]
Hoffman now faces charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment, strangulation and suffocation, felony intimidation of a victim and burglary of a building.
Doninos solves crimes like they pave road potholes.
Yes, we did!
Gun. It’s the best abuse repellent
kidnapping and false imprisonment are bad juju. Just ask O.J. he can tell ya all about that.
Domino’s should do something really nice for that driver. He’s a good egg!
Like a free pizza?
Domino’s needs a Bronze, Silver [star], Congressional Medal of Honor hall of fame...
They have egg pizza?
Job well done, driver!
Thank God this driver was alert and responsive. Pretty sure he saved this woman’s life.
Sounds that way. It was not going to end well unless she found a way to escape.
What is wrong with people?
Joey Grundl
Joey Grundl
Sorry about the double post
They be eatin' too much damned pizza. AND the wrong kind. Dominoes? Feh.
Sir Grundl of the round pie square box...
He kidnapped her and bound and gagged her so she couldn’t scream for help. Then he decided, eh what the hell, and went out of his way to invite some random guy into the house.
Something very nice.
Let Domino’s take over some public sector atuff.
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