Capt. Daniel Gruebele, commander of the State Patrol’s Northeast Region at the Fond du Lac post, was cited for disorderly conduct in the summer after his girlfriend accused him of coercive sexual behavior.
The head of the State Patrol’s Northeast Region is under investigation after his girlfriend called 911 in June, claiming he poured a drink on her, threw the bottle at her — both accusations he denied — and kicked her out of the house after she refused to have sex with him.
State Patrol Capt. Daniel Gruebele told the responding Outagamie County Sheriff’s deputies that his girlfriend threw a shoe at him unprovoked, and he asked her to leave. He said that as she began to gather her things, she threw more objects at him, according to the 17-page incident report from the sheriff’s office. Gruebele also said that she recently punched him in the neck multiple times. These incidents made him fear for his safety, he said, but he denied making threats toward her. The report describes Gruebele as about 6 feet, three inches tall and over 200 lbs. She’s described as a “smaller in stature female.”
The woman, whose name is redacted from the report, told the responding deputies that she and Gruebele, had a consensual, sadomasochistic relationship.
She later said she was “upset and uncomfortable with the repeated coercive level of sexual activity, and there were multiple sexual acts which she only performed to prevent him from losing his temper with her,” according to the report from the sheriff’s office…