LACROSSE, Wis.— A Lancaster man was arrested after police surrounded his girlfriend’s LaCrosse house following the woman feeing the house after four days. Cole J. Clark, 30, was charged kidnapping, false imprisonment, intimidating with force, battery, disorderly conduct, and bail-jumping, The woman told police that Clark showed up uninvited on January 11 from Lancaster, 90 miles away, and wouldn’t leave. These are details as alleged in the criminal complaint: Clark messaged the woman’s family that she had been hospitalized in Madison after a car accident and that doctors wouldn’t allow visitors. It wasn’t true. She feared for her life if she tried to escape. At one point Clark took her to a hospital for a medical issue. He didn’t leave her side during the visit and threatened to hurt her if she told anyone what was going on. On the fourth day, a relative of the woman knocked on the door. Clark hid in a closet. She ran outside. After police arrived, Clark came out and surrendered without incident. Police said that Clark denied wrongdoing. About the call that the woman had been in an accident, he said she asked him to call her mother and make up the story because she needed a break.
Clark. Clark was charged last year with abusing the same woman.