Schofield man who advocated for open carry jailed, accused of making gun threats

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WAUSAU — A Schofield man who wrote a guest column for Daily Herald Media after he was asked to leave a grocery store for openly carrying a pistol in his holster could temporarily lose his concealed carry permit after an arrest on gun-related charges.

Dereck Simonsmeier, 24, is now in Marathon County Jail, one of four people arrested in the 600 block of Turner Street in Wausau after a man was threatened at gunpoint Wednesday. Simonsmeier is being held in the Marathon County Jail pending an initial appearance Friday in Marathon County Circuit Court.

Simonsmeier; Danny Price, 32; Shannon Wheeler, 25; and Amanda Zastrow, 26, were arrested at a Turner Street home after they were called to help with a dispute between roommates, said Capt. Greg Hagenbucher of the Wausau Police Department. The incident began when a woman living in the home asked a man, also living in the home, to leave, Hagenbucher said. When he refused, the woman called friends to help.

Police were called to the home at about 6:30 p.m., according to a Wausau police report. The men were arrested on preliminary charges of endangering safety and Zastrow was arrested on a preliminary charge of being a party to a crime.

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20140213/WDH01/302130264/Updated-Schofield-man-who-advocated-open-carry-jailed-accused-making-gun-threats

[ileus]

1. Hopefully everything will be cleared up and the charges dropped.

I'd like to know how the firearm was used threaten....I figure the guy wanting to beat up the female is probably a "guns kill people" type scared of OC.