2.27.26 Initial Appearances Dane County

02.27.26 Dane County Crime provides publicly available recordings of Initial Appearance hearings from the Dane County Circuit Court. These videos are sourced from the court's public livestream and posted here for transparency, accessibility, and public information. All individuals are presumed innocent unless proven guilty. 00:00:00 CHRISTIAN GARRETT - Bail hearing for a federal case, alleging Mr. Garrett was leading a drug and prostitution operation out of a home on Broadmoor in Madison - Warrant was executed, Christian was in the home with $3400 in cash in his pocket, +400 grams of cocaine, 120 grams of methamphetamine, close to $20,000 in the household. At the time of the hearing, there is no criminal complaint filed, and he has no criminal history. Commissioner orders $1500 cash bond. 00:04:22 WILSON ESMELIN FELIZ PINA 00:07:24 JESUS A ROBLES ORTEGA 00:10:00 CREED DARION MOORE - Mr. Moore is being charged with attempting (for the second time) to solicit the murder of a witness in an underlying homicide case. He faces life in prison on the initial attempt to solicit this witness's murder. State asks for $1,000,000 and commissioner orders the recommendation. 00:15:52 DAMIEN LEE JOHNSON - Mr. Johnson, 18, has 8 open cases, 6 of them being at the felony level. This case alleges that he got into a verbal argument with a minor family member and hit that member on the side of the arm while he was driving. He has a history of appearing in court, commissioner orders signature bond with the condition to direct no acts or threats of violence to the victim. 00:27:10 VERONICA DIAZ PENA 00:30:21 RYAN JOHN SPENCE 00:35:32 JOSEPH HENRY WOODS - Charged with violent acts toward 2 passengers on a Madison Metro bus, a female victim losing consciousness due to allegedly being slapped by Woods. 00:39:41 JOSEPH KOEPP 00:42:27 ADRIAN M PEREZ 00:44:20 SONNY R VANNA 00:46:20 PATRICK MILLER 00:52:00 SEVON J PRUITT (state requests a $2000 bail. Commissioner grants a signature bond.) 00:55:59 CHRISTOPHER J NAPUTI 01:01:30 PARIS D RIDGEWAY CARTER 01:03:45 ANDRE SYKES 01:07:30 ROBERT E GAREL 01:09:47 JOSEPH HIPLER (Hipler’s home on Broadmoor in Madison was raided on 02.25.26. Hipler and another man were arrested. Christian Garrett who had his appearance at the beginning of this IA video was also arrested at Hipler’s home. Hipler has since passed away, unsure of exact cause of death. However, per scanner records, it is believed that narcan was used to attempt to save his life. State asked for a $5000 bond due to pending charges of intent to deliver 400 g cocaine and 120 g methamphetamine, as well as maintain a drug trafficking place. State ordered a $1500 bail.)