Man charged with stalking, severely beating ex-girlfriend
A Madison man is charged with stalking his former girlfriend and breaking into her Middleton apartment where he badly beat her and cut her new boyfriend with a knife.
Miguel Aragon, 36, is charged with numerous felonies for the Sunday attack at the woman's home, including stalking her, armed burglary, two counts of second degree reckless endangerment, two counts of misdemeanor battery and one count of misdemeanor theft.
According to the complaint Krystal Zaring, 20, and Miguel Angel Villanueva, 23, were asleep in the apartment when Aragon somehow broke in. Villanueva awoke to find Aragon standing in the bedroom and he immediately attacked Villanueva with a knife.
While Villanueva was able to block several of the attempts to stab him, he suffered a deep gash to his hand which took six stitches to close, the criminal complaint against Aragon says.
Villanueva eventually decided he no longer would be able to overcome Aragon and fled from the bedroom and sought help from neighbors.
Meanwhile, Aragon began punching Zaring, hitting her several times with his fist to the point where when the police showed up, her mouth "was injured so badly that it was difficult to understand her as she was talking," according to the criminal complaint.
Leading up to and during the event, the complaint says, Aragon threatened to kill both Zaring and Villanueva. "You don't think I will?" he asked Villanueva during the fight in the bedroom. "I have a knife, I'll kill you right now."
About a week before the Sunday attack, Aragon told Villanueva, "She knows who I am. I'm going to kill her."
During the time Zaring and Aragon were together, he continuously threatened her, she said, by telling her "I got a six foot deep hole in the back, if I ever catch you with some dude you and him would be dead in the six foot grave."
Zaring told police she had spent about 2 1/2 years in a relationship with Zaring and had two children with him.
A few days before the attack in the home, Zaring's tires on her car were all punctured, she said.
If convicted on all counts Aragon would face maximum penalties of almost 50 years of combined prison and extended supervision time.
Cash bail of $7,000 was set when he made an initial appearance Tuesday and he was ordered to have no contact with the victims nor be on the street were Zaring lives in Middleton, not drink, and not have any weapons.
