LACROSSE, Wis. — A South Dakota man is going to prison for his role in kidnapping, gagging and locking up an 80-year-old man. Caleb M. Crocker, age 28, was sentenced to 12 years of confinement and then six years of extended supervision. Crocker told Judge Mark Huesmann that he was “sorry for everything.” The judge was unmoved. He called Crocker “a real and present danger to the public.” Noting that three men participated jn the abuse, Judge Huesmann said that Cocker could have stopped the abuse at any time but allowed it to happen anyway. The judge also told Crocker that he was lucky that the victim didn’t die. Otherwise, said the judge, the charge would have been murder. Sentenced earlier in the case was Kaylan Cave, to probation. The third accused man, Kyle Wedekind, has a court appearance in June.
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Crocker. The judge afforded him no leniency in the Thanksgiving 2023 crime.