A Carroll man was sentenced to up to five years in prison on Monday after negotiating a plea deal. In the agreement, a charge of first-degree burglary was dismissed in exchange for 39-year-old Jeremy Allen Werneburg’s guilty plea to an assault causing bodily injury charge from an incident in May of last year. According to court documents, Werneburg turned himself into police after entering a Carroll residence and striking a victim several times in the head on May 16, 2018. On this charge he was sentenced to up to one year in prison, but this was to run concurrently with a sentence handed down the same day from a separate incident. Werneburg will be serving up to five years in prison on a charge of willful injury causing bodily injury for intentionally striking a Lanesboro man with his car on April 5, 2018. Werneburg was arrested for driving a Pontiac Grand Prix off the roadway, hitting David John Warnke. This, however was not the first time Werneburg had been arrested for using a vehicle as a weapon. He was found guilty of assault by a Sac County jury after pinning Kyle Freese against the wall of the Carnarvon Inn on Valentine’s Day in 2016. Werneburg will be given credit for time served.
