Fish Fight Leads to Bread-Knife Slashing, Complaint Says

A fight that started after a local man mentioned a fish he had killed ended with a Sussex woman slashing his hand with a bread knife, according to the criminal complaint.

The woman, who Patch is not identifying to protect the identity of the victim, was charged with battery-domestic abuse and disorderly conduct-domestic abuse. If convicted, she faces up to a year in jail and $11,000 in fines.

Waukesha County deputies were called to a residence on Pewaukee Road in Sussex on June 24 after the man called police to the home. They had been drinking and the woman talked on the phone with her mother after he brought up a deceased fish, he told police, according to a criminal complaint.

When she hung up the phone with her mother, the man told deputies, she went bezerk, punching and kicking him, the complaint states. The man walked past her, causing her to fall and break a glass with wine in it.

The man locked himself in the bedroom but when she started pounding on it, the complaint states, he let her in. The woman came into the room, slashing a bread knife and cut the man’s hand.

The woman told police they started wrestling while they were arguing, the complaint states, but she did not remember what happened in the bedroom.

The man had a .105 percent blood alcohol concentration and the woman admitted to consuming wine and taking two shots of alcohol.