A federal jury in Green Bay has convicted Neegee J. Cloud, 32, of burglary and assault with intent to murder following a violent domestic incident on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The announcement was made by Richard G. Frohling, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
The charges stem from an event on September 20, 2024, when Cloud broke into a home in Neopit and attacked his girlfriend. According to evidence presented at trial, Cloud beat the victim unconscious on a bedroom floor and returned multiple times over twenty minutes to continue the assault by punching, kicking, stomping on her head, and slamming her face into the floor.
Video footage from a camera system inside the residence documented both the forced entry and parts of the attack. The homeowner was alerted by this system and contacted tribal police after witnessing some of the incident. Officers arrested Cloud outside the house.
Emergency medical services arranged for the victim’s transport to a trauma center in Wausau. She spent nearly two weeks in intensive care and almost a month hospitalized due to injuries that included fractured orbital bones and soft tissue damage to her throat, which required intubation to maintain her airway.
Cloud is an enrolled member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and previously lived on the reservation. He faces up to 10 years in prison for burglary and up to 20 years for assault with intent to murder. Sentencing is scheduled before Senior United States District Judge William C. Griesbach on November 10, 2025.
The case was investigated by the Menominee Tribal Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorneys Andrew J. Maier and Alexander E. Duros prosecuted.
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