STEVENS POINT -- A 41-year-old Plover woman faces up to 10 years in prison after she was accused of going on a blow-dart shooting spree.
Paula Wolf was charged Tuesday with six counts of second-degree recklessly endangering safety and one count of criminal damage to property after a week long spree in April during which she allegedly hit four pedestrians with a blow dart. She missed two others and shot rocks at a Portage County Sheriff's Department squad car with a sling shot, according to a police report.
Each count of recklessly endangering safety is a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine. The criminal damage to property charge is a misdemeanor.
Wolf will have a preliminary hearing at 10:45 a.m. May 14 in Portage County Court.
According to the criminal complaint:
After she was taken into custody April 21, Wolf admitted to Stevens Point Police to firing darts at at least three people in downtown Stevens Point and another person near Mead Park. She also said that, on at least five other occasions, she had gone downtown and shot at pedestrians with the blow gun.
When asked by an officer if she had shot a dart at 960 Main St. that shattered the outside panel of the door, Wolf "responded with laughter and stated, 'That was a good one.'"
Wolf also told police that at no time did she consider the possibility that someone could have been seriously injured. One woman who was hit in the chest with a dart told police it would have had to pass near a friend's head to hit her, and a man who wasn't hit said the dart missed his head by about five inches. One man struck in the chest went to the emergency room.
David Perry, a doctor at Saint Michael's Hospital, told police it was his medical opinion that there was potential for a life-threatening injury if a dart hit a torso with enough force, and if it didn't strike a rib.