Deer-kill suspect to prison for beating

WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) - One of the men charged with using snowmobiles to kill deer in Waupaca County has been sentenced to prison on a probation violation.

Twenty-four-year-old Rory Kuenzi of Weyauwega was sentenced Friday to two years in prison on a 2005 conviction for beating his girlfriend.

He had been on probation for the conviction. But the probation was revoked when he was charged in January for his alleged role in killing deer in the Town of Lind.

Public defender Troy Nielsen told the judge that in the year before the deer charges, Kuenzi had stayed out of trouble.

But prosecutor James Fassbender said the animal charges were consistent with a pattern of violence.

Kuenzi's assault on his girlfriend left her with a broken tooth.