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Board OKs parole for Wiertzema, denies for Gaede

Jan 06, 2004 - 23:21:55 CST

By the Associated Press

The state Parole Board on Tuesday denied early release for a Milwaukee man serving a prison sentence in North Dakota for stealing the identity of a man who was found dead.

In a separate case, the board granted early release for Todd Wiertzema, of Grand Forks, who is serving six years in prison for manslaughter.

Dennis Gaede, 40, declined to appear at his scheduled parole board hearing Tuesday, so parole was denied, said Ernie Reinert, an assistant clerk for the board.

Gaede was sentenced in October 2002 to four years in prison. He had admitted stealing from his Fargo employer, Compressed Air Technologies, and using the name of Timothy Wick to get a mortgage for a house in Gardner, about 30 miles north of Fargo.

Wick's dismembered body was discovered in the Menominee River along the Wisconsin-Michigan border in January 2002.

Gaede has denied any role in Wick's death. Prosecutors have called him a suspect.

He is imprisoned in North Dakota on charges of theft of property, theft by deception and insurance fraud.

Gaede is fighting extradition to Wisconsin on warrants for alleged forgery offenses. His expected release date in North Dakota, with time off for good behavior, is Aug. 12, 2005, Reinert said.

Wiertzema, 23, had been scheduled to be released from prison on June 5, 2005. The Parole Board on Tuesday moved up the date to April 1 this year, Reinert said.

Wiertzema was sentenced in July 2000 to eight years in prison, with two years suspended, in the death of Joshua McMullen in September 1999.

Authorities said Wiertzema shot and killed McMullen during a dispute at Wiertzema's home that might have been related to drugs. They said the two men were friends.

Wiertzema also was given two suspended five-year sentences in 2000 for theft of property and marijuana possession.

Reinert said the Parole Board took into account Wiertzema's good conduct in prison, and the fact that he had completed a recommended treatment program.

"Of a six-year sentence, he will have served a significant portion of that," Reinert said.

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