CHIPPEWA FALLS — A Stanley man, who previously served a three-year prison sentence for assaulting two women, was sentenced Thursday to serve another 11 months in jail on a new drug conviction.
Shaun A. Ciokiewicz, 37, 35075 Highway X, pleaded no contest in October in Chippewa County Court to possession of meth and drug paraphernalia. Charges of strangulation and suffocation, false imprisonment and battery were read-in and dismissed.
At the sentencing Thursday, Judge James Isaacson ordered the jail term. Ciokiewicz was given credit for time served that will cover the bulk of the sentence, and he will have Huber work release privileges. He must report to jail by June 1.
“I truly hope you are on the right path. You have a long history of criminal defenses,” Isaacson told Ciokiewicz.
Assistant District County Attorney Sheila Yohnk said the 11-month sentence was agreed upon by both attorneys to resolve the matter.
“He’s already on extended supervision, so he’s receiving services that way,” Yohnk told Isaacson.
Defense attorney Kerry Kelm noted that Ciokiewicz is working 12-hour weekend shifts and a different job during the week, staying out of trouble since he was released from prison.
“I think he’s on a good path right now,” Kelm told Isaacson.
According to the criminal complaint in the drug case, police went to the Badger Hotel on April 22 to contact Ciokiewicz for an active investigation, and they were aware he was wanted on a warrant for his arrest. Officers were able to observe there was someone in the room by looking through a window, but Ciokiewicz didn’t open the door.
“Ultimately, officers entered the room by kicking the door,” the complaint reads.
Ciokiewicz and a woman there were detained. On a table in the room, officers located marijuana and gem bags. They also found meth on a scale.
Inside a backpack were several prescription drug bottles that were prescribed to Ciokiewicz’s ex-wife. A bubble pipe located also tested positive for methamphetamine.
In the assault case, law enforcement were called to AmeriVu Inn & Suites in Stanley on March 3, where they spoke with a female, who said Ciokiewicz had choked her and punched her in the side of the face. An officer also spoke to an eyewitness who saw the assault occur. The victim said she and Ciokiewicz had been using meth before the assault occurred. The woman was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital for her injuries.
Ciokiewiecz and the woman have previously lived together, making this case a repeater for domestic abuse.
However, the woman spoke before the sentencing on Thursday, saying she now is unsure of exactly what occurred.
Wisconsin Department of Corrections records show that Ciokiewicz was released on extended supervision from Dodge Correctional Institution on Sept. 28, 2022, after he was convicted of assaulting two women.
In July 2020, Ciokiewicz pleaded no contest in Chippewa County Court to second-degree recklessly endangering safety and disorderly conduct. Other charges of battery, intimidation of a witness, obstructing an officer, and bail jumping were dismissed.
Chippewa County Judge Steve Gibbs ordered the prison sentence, along with three years of extended supervision, with 55 days credit for time already served. Gibbs also ordered Ciokiewicz to pay $1,694 on third-offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated; a jail sentence on that drunken-driving conviction will be concurrent to the prison term.
At the time of the November 2019 incident, Ciokiewicz lived at 830 W. Macomber St. in Chippewa Falls. According to the criminal complaint, Chippewa Falls police were called to Ciokiewicz’s house on Nov. 22, 2019, where an officer observed Ciokiewicz fleeing the scene in a car.
Officers interviewed two women who stated Ciokiewicz assaulted them. One woman said he “grabbed a knife from the kitchen table and placed the width of the blade to her neck.” She sustained a superficial cut.
The other woman said Ciokiewicz had punched her. The officer observed she had a split upper and lower lip, and a swollen right eye.
Officers located Ciokiewicz at a home in Altoona, where he was arrested.
In 2017, Ciokiewicz was convicted in Chippewa County Court of domestic abuse and substantial battery-intent to cause bodily harm. He was ordered to serve six months in jail, and he was placed on probation for 2½ years. He also was convicted of stalking in 2014.
In 2018, Ciokiewicz was accused of biting off a portion of another man’s ear during a fight outside a town of Wilson tavern. He was convicted of bail jumping in that case, with a charge of substantial battery dismissed.
Doctors told authorities the victim had two continuous stitches placed in his ear and would need to be seen by a plastic surgeon to determine if additional treatment is necessary.
Ciokiewicz also was convicted of battery-party to a crime in August 2019 in Clark County Court and was placed on one year of probation.
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