Victim eventually reported scheme to Muskego Police Department
Culver's workers charged with extortion over co-worker's affair
Victim eventually reported scheme to Muskego Police Department
HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED. DERRICK: -- DIANA: A TALE OF INFIDELITY AND EXTORTION FRR' MUSKEGO. KRISTIN: PROSECUTORS SAY TWO WORKERS THREATENED ANOTHER CO-WORKER TO PAY UP OR ELSE THEY AS 12 NEWS’ NICK BOHR REPORTS FROM MUSKEGO, THE SCHEME KEPT ON, UNTIL THE VICTIM FINALLY TURNED TO POLICE. NICK: THE LOCAL BASTION OF WISCONSIN FLAVOR MAY SEEM AN UNLIKELY PLACE FOR ANYTHING UNSA BUT A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT CHARGES TWO CULVERS WORKERS WITH EXTORTING A CO-WORKER OUT OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, THREATENING TO EXPOSE HIS AFFAIR WITH YET ANOTHER CULVER’S CO-WORKER. 29-YEAR-OLD CAMERON RUEDA OF WAUK EXTORTING $1100 FROM THE VICTIM INSIDE THE RESTAURANT IN LATE 2022, THREATENING TO TELL EVERYONE AT THE CULVER’S AND THE VICTIM’S WIFE ABOUT THE AFFAIR. THE VICTIM PAID UP. TWO MONTHS L SAY A DIFFERENT CO-WORKER, 29-YEAR-OLD CODY LABONTE OF MUHE ONLINE, THREATENING TO "DISTRIBUTE FLYERS ALL OVER THE REPUTATION." LABONTE IS ACCUSED O $2000, WHICH THE VICTIM PAID ON VENMO, AND POLICE SAY A FEW WEEKS LATER, HE PAID HIM ANOTHER IF IT HAD STOPPED THERE, THE PAIR MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT, BUT TWO DAYS LATER, AFTER THE END WE PAID $2000, CAME ANOTHER DEMAND FOR $5,000. THE EMPLOYEE HAD HAD ENOUGH, WALKING IN THAT SAME DAY TO THE MUSKEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT, REPORTING THE SCHEME. PROSECUTORS SAY LABONTE KEPT UP THE THREATS, THE VICTIM TEXTING "NOW LEAVE ME AND MY FAMILY ALONE," TO WHICH LABONTE IS ACCUSED OF RESPONDING "I WILL, ONCE THE MONEY HITS." BUT BY THEN, POLICE WERE IN ON IT. NEITHER MAN WAS HOME WHEN PAID THEM A VISIT TODAY, BOTH ORDERED INTO COURT LATER THIS MONTH. IN MUSKEGO, NICK BOHR, WIS KRISTIN: THE MEN ARE FORMALLY CHARGED WITH THREATENING TO
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Culver's workers charged with extortion over co-worker's affair
Victim eventually reported scheme to Muskego Police Department
Waukesha County prosecutors have charged two Muskego Culver's employees with extortion after they allegedly threatened to expose a co-worker's affair unless he paid them thousands of dollars. Cameron Rueda, 29, of Waukesha is charged with extorting $1,100 from the victim inside the restaurant in late 2022. He threatened to tell everyone at the Culver's and the victim's wife about the affair. The victim paid up.Two months later, prosecutors say a different co-worker, 29-year-old Cody Labonte of Muskego, began extorting the man online. Labonte allegedly threatened to "distribute flyers all over the City of Muskego to ruin his reputation." He demanded $2,000, which the victim paid via Venmo.A few weeks later, the victim paid another $2,000 under the same threat.Prosecutors say Labonte kept up the threats. The victim texted, "Now leave me and my family alone!!!" to which Labonte allegedly responded, "I will once the money hits."By then, police were involved, and the victim reported the scheme to the Muskego Police Department.Neither man was home when WISN 12 News stopped by Thursday. Both men are ordered to appear in court later this month.The men are formally charged with "threatening to communicate derogatory information," a felony that carries up to three years in prison if convicted. Culver's declined to comment on the story.
MUSKEGO, Wis. —
Waukesha County prosecutors have charged two Muskego Culver's employees with extortion after they allegedly threatened to expose a co-worker's affair unless he paid them thousands of dollars.
Cameron Rueda, 29, of Waukesha is charged with extorting $1,100 from the victim inside the restaurant in late 2022. He threatened to tell everyone at the Culver's and the victim's wife about the affair. The victim paid up.
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Two months later, prosecutors say a different co-worker, 29-year-old Cody Labonte of Muskego, began extorting the man online.
Labonte allegedly threatened to "distribute flyers all over the City of Muskego to ruin his reputation." He demanded $2,000, which the victim paid via Venmo.
A few weeks later, the victim paid another $2,000 under the same threat.
Prosecutors say Labonte kept up the threats.
The victim texted, "Now leave me and my family alone!!!" to which Labonte allegedly responded, "I will once the money hits."
By then, police were involved, and the victim reported the scheme to the Muskego Police Department.
Neither man was home when WISN 12 News stopped by Thursday.
Both men are ordered to appear in court later this month.
The men are formally charged with "threatening to communicate derogatory information," a felony that carries up to three years in prison if convicted.
Culver's declined to comment on the story.
