Mower County Sheriff’s Department Deputy John J.

Tuesday, December 05, 2000

Mower County Sheriff’s Department Deputy John J. Bachman, 37, is recovering in St. Mary’s Hospital, Rochester, from injuries suffered in a mishap early Saturday.

Bachman suffered neck injuries, broken ribs, facial lacerations and required 200 stitches to reattach an ear.

According to Chief Deputy Terese Amazi, the deputy was responding to a report of a felony assault in progress at a Waltham residence.

As he sped westbound on Highway 56 with lights and siren activated, he apparently lost control of his vehicle on a patch of ice one mile west of Taopi.

The squad car tumbled end over end, front to back, until it came to rest against a utility pole.

The deputy was able to broadcast his call sign from his lapel microphone on his uniform as he lay bleeding in his squad car.

The Austin – Mower County Law Enforcement Center summoned the Mayo One air ambulance for assistance, and the helicopter found the deputy’s car against the utility pole and set down at the scene to begin medical attention immediately.

The Adams Volunteer Fire Department was forced to extricate the deputy from his vehicle and he was loaded into the helicopter and flown directly to the Rochester hospital for treatment of his injuries.

Today, Bachman, who was alone in the vehicle, is receiving an MRI, according to Chief Deputy Amazi, as he remains in the hospital recovering from multiple injuries.

Brian Lyle Musolf, 42 of 512 Washington St., Waltham, remains in the Mower County Jail, pending formal charges in connection with the incident that sent the deputy speeding to Waltham early Saturday.

A dispute, that began with a verbal argument, escalated into a felony assault with a baseball bat.

Brian Lyle Musolf was taken into custody at the Waltham residence at 1 a.m. Saturday and transported to the Mower County Jail in Austin.

Driver loses control

Nina Moore, 28 of St. Paul, was charged with gross misdemeanor DWI, following a one-vehicle roll-over accident at 1:22 a.m. Saturday.

According to an Austin Police Department report, Austin officers were dispatched to the mishap, because Mower County Sheriff’s Department deputies had responded to an accident involving a deputy and a felony assault at Waltham at the same time.

When Austin officers arrived at the scene, they discovered Moore’s SUV in a ditch along Mower County No. 27 west of the Target Store Austin intersection with U.S. Highway 218.

Moore admitted she had been drinking in local bars prior to the accident in which she lost control, went into a ditch and rolled-over once until the vehicle came to a rest on its wheels in the Lansing Township roadside ditch.

Moore, who was alone in her vehicle at the time of the accident, escaped injury in the mishap.