VIROQUA, Wis. – As deputies were responding to a 911 domestic abuse call from outside town, they spotted a man running across a cornfield. They stopped and held Nakeil Jermaine Bettis, 44, then inspected the house from which the 911 came. The woman was no longer there, but deputies found her soon at another address. She was safe. At the site of the disturbance, deputies found evidence of a firearm discharge and later a handgun. Bettis was arrested and taken to the county jail in Viroqua.
Bettis. In custody on charges of recklessly endangering safety, battery, disorderly conduct, domestic abuse.