Pleasant Prairie Police Department

2006 New Releases Archive

07/25/2006 | Shots Fired by Truck Driver Result in Arrest
A semi truck driver was taken into custody by Pleasant Prairie Police Officers early Tuesday afternoon following an altercation with a laborer at the SuperValu Distribution facility in Pleasant Prairie. The driver is alleged to have rammed the laborer’s occupied vehicle and then fired a handgun at it during the incident.

Police Officers were sent to the distribution facility at 1:07 P.M. for a disturbance involving a man with a gun. Officers arrived and took Raymond C. Stawicki, 56 of Milwaukee into custody without incident.

According to witnesses, Stawicki was engaged in an altercation with Mario R. Castro, 28 of Kenosha, a contract laborer who Stawicki had unload his truck. After the truck had been unloaded, an argument ensued over what was owed for the work. During the course of the altercation, Stawicki attempted to leave and Castro attempted to stop him. At that point Stawicki is alleged to have rammed Castro’s car and then threatened Castro with a handgun before firing the gun into one of Castro’s tires. Stawicki then allegedly threw the handgun into a nearby detention pond.

Sheriff’s Department Divers were called in to search the pond for the handgun and that search was ongoing late Tuesday afternoon.

Stawicki is being held in the Kenosha County Jail on two counts of reckless endangerment with a weapon.

An archived copy of this and other Pleasant Prairie Police Department New Releases is available on the department’s website at www.pppd.info.

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