A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 19 for a Town of Delavan man who allegedly held his girlfriend and another man against their will and threatened to kill them.
Blaec A. Miller, 30, was charged March 14 in Walworth County Circuit Court with kidnapping, false imprisonment, strangulation and suffocation and disorderly conduct, all with domestic abuse assessments; and false imprisonment, disorderly conduct and three counts of misdemeanor bail jumping.
According to the criminal complaint, Miller called Shauna Gonzalez-Garza, 29, on March 7 and asked her to come home. Shortly after Gonzalez-Garza arrived at the Summer Street home, Miller began yelling at her, told her to sit in a chair and grabbed her around the neck, which impeded her breathing, according to the complaint.
Gonzalez-Garza said Miller told her he was going to kill her and threatened her with a screwdriver, which he stabbed in to the wall behind her head, according to the complaint.
When a car approached the home, Gonzalez-Garza said, Miller got a large knife from the kitchen and concealed it as he invited Daniel Flitcroft, 28, of Lake Geneva, into the house, according to the complaint. Once Flitcroft entered, Miller displayed the knife, told Flitcroft to sit in a chair near Gonzalez-Garza and threatened to kill them both, according to the complaint. Gonzalez-Garza said she and Flitcroft pleaded for their lives, but Miller refused to let them leave, stabbed the knife into the wall near where Flitcroft was sitting, and threated to put a power tool through her and Flitcroft’s skulls, according to the complaint.
Miller eventually let Flitcroft leave the home and told Gonzalez-Garza they were going out since it was going to be her last day, according to the complaint. Gonzalez-Garza asked if she could change since she had urinated from fear, and Miller allowed her to do that before walking with her to the Shell station in the Town of Delavan where they met up with Kenyon Carter, who drove them past the Summer Street residence, according to the complaint.
By that time, Flitcroft had reported the incident, and Miller saw squad cars outside the house and became angry because he believed Gonzalez-Garza had called police, according to the complaint. “You know you’re dead now,” he said to Gonzalez-Garza, according to the complaint.
They then drove to the Sports Page Bar in Elkhorn where Miller told Gonzalez-Garza they were going to “get f—ed up” and then he was going to kill her, according to the complaint. A bartender noticed Gonzalez-Garza’s distress and asked via gestures whether she should call 911, and Gonzalez-Garza was able to indicate yes. When Elkhorn police arrived at the bar, Miller ran out the back, according to the complaint.
Miller was out on bond at the time on misdemeanor charges of battery, bail jumping and disorderly conduct with a condition that he have no contact with Gonzalez-Garza.
