BAXTER, Minn. -- Two men face felony charges after allegedly breaking into a fish house over the weekend on Gull Lake and beating up another male, causing severe lacerations to the victim's head, lip and leg.
Justin Scott Rudolph, 28, Brainerd, and Dustin Cole Sawvel, 27, Fort Ripley, were charged Tuesday in Crow Wing County District Court with first-degree burglary and third-degree assault causing substantial bodily harm.
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According to the criminal complaints filed against the two men, the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office was called at 2:57 a.m. Sunday to a report of someone breaking into a fish house. The victim said he was in the fish house with a woman at the time of the assault and was choked, kicked in the head and punched all over his head and body by Rudolph and Sawvel and then the two later re-entered the fish house when he was hit in the head with a whiskey bottle, the complaint stated.
Rudolph鈥檚 sister, who was driving the two men when they were arrested, told investigators her brother said he thought the woman in the fish house was cheating on him. The victim, however, said the woman who was sleeping in the other bunk bed in the fish house was only a friend and colleague.
