Kuenzi brothers face more charges

WAUPACA - Robby and Rory Kuenzi now face additional charges for allegedly rounding up a group of deer and repeatedly running them over with snowmobiles. Investigators say the incident happened in Waupaca County on January 9.

24-year-old Rory Kuenzi was in court Wednesday facing a new group of charges. The court proceedings took no more than five minutes for Rory Kuenzi to plead not guilty to the seven new charges.

Rory Kuenzi was charged Tuesday with six counts of taking a deer during the closed season. He's also accused of possessing wild game during a closed season and resisting a conservation warden.

That is in addition to felony charges already filed.

Following court, the landowner where the deer were killed says she only wants one thing.

“I want to see justice. What they did to those deer shouldn't happen,” Virginia Niemuth said.

Rory Kuenzi's attorney declined comment after court.

Kuenzi is scheduled to be back in court later this month. He faces roughly 30 years in prison if convicted.

Also in the courtroom Wednesday were family and friends of Kevin McCoy, who was killed in a hit and run in 2004.

Rory Kuenzi was suspected but never charged in the case.

The case is still open and McCoy's mother says she remains hopeful charges will eventually come.