Leader Staff
A Deerbrook man who served a five-year prison sentence for conspiracy to commit homicide, according to court records, was charged with burglary in Shawano County for allegedly stealing scrap metal from a barn in Birnamwood last week.
Jeffrey D. Kitsemble, 42, was arrested Jan. 23 after the property owners discovered a suspicious vehicle outside the barn and contacted the Sheriff’s Department, according the the criminal complaint.
Kitsemble fled the scene and was later arrested in Langlade County. He could face a maximum possible penalty of 12½ years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted of burglary. He is also charged with a misdemeanor count of theft.
Kitsemble was being held on a $5,000 cash bond and is scheduled for an adjourned initial court appearance on Monday.
Online court records show Kitsemble was sentenced in 2006 to five years in prison and four years extended supervision after pleading no contest to a charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
According to a 2006 story in the Baraboo News Republic, Kitsemble tried to hire a Sauk County jail inmate to kill his estranged wife’s boyfriend.