Handcuffed Suspect Dives Headfirst Out of Sheriff's Office Window

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An Orfordville teen apparently was not thrilled about being in the custody of the Rock County Sheriff's Office in October, 2019.

So when an officer left him alone in an interrogation room, the 17-year-old immediately dove headlong — with his hands cuffed in front of him, according to video of the incident — out a window, landing some 10 feet below before he sprinted away.

Video shows the entire escape as well as an officer's reaction upon returning to the room about 13 minutes later to find the suspect gone with only some tangled mini blinds left in his wake.

The windows in the interrogation room at the time had regular home-style screens that could easily be pushed out.

"That won't happen anymore. There are bars on the windows now," a deputy told.

The incident was subject to an administrative review, and only the windows were found at fault, not the procedures the Sheriff's Office uses.

The suspect in the case is identified as Quantrell D. Schwartzlow of Orfordville. He is charged with escape, a Class H felony.

Online court records also show he is charged with strangulation and suffocation, also a felony, stemming from an incident on Aug. 1, 2018. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Schwartzlow had been arrested Oct. 18 at Orfordville Parkview High School and was placed in the interview room, authorities said at the time.

Schwartzlow allegedly planned his flight out the window.

"He was taken out of the (interview) room and 'manipulated' his way back into the room, Deputy District Attorney Perry Folts said at an earlier court hearing, suggesting he planned to jump after his first exposure to the room,".

No camera caught his landing, but he apparently completed the jump without having injured himself.

He did not get far. He was caught in Janesville at a friend’s house about 3½ hours after his escape, police told.

Schwartzlow remained in custody at the Rock County jail on Thursday in lieu of $15,000 bail.

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Tens of thousands have been entertained by a video showing Quantrell D. Schwartzlow jumping out a window at the Rock County Sheriff’s Office.

But the reason he was in that room was an ugly, horrible story.

He choked a young woman until she passed out and then sexually assaulted her, saying he was trying to make her feel better, Deputy District Attorney Perry Folts said at Schwartzlow’s sentencing in Rock County Court.

He’ll spend four years in prison, followed by four years of extended supervision upon his release.

The victim read a statement that many victims of domestic abuse will recognize. Judge Karl Hanson told her it was the most courageous act he ever witnessed, including during his service in the Iraq war.

She described a relationship full of such abuse and threats.

“I believed I was going to die the day I was strangled,” she said.

“The way he grabbed my throat, the way his eyes darkened and the noises I heard as I fell unconscious will forever be ingrained in my brain. …

“I will never forget him telling me right before I blacked out he was going to take me somewhere, where no one could hear me scream so he could kill me. Words like this were said to me so often that I knew better than to not obey. …

“Whenever I tried to convince myself that the abuse I was enduring was not normal, he degraded me into believing that the trauma he put me through was what I deserved, and if that wasn’t enough to shut me up, he would threaten my life or the lives of my family members.

“I wish I could have mustered the strength to report his acts of violence sooner. But those threats hung over my head and made me feel as though I could not scream, even though I desperately wanted to. Even when his hands were not around my throat, I had no voice,” she said.

“Part of me wishes that every mark, cut, bruise, scrape, busted lip and black eye could all come back at once so the court could truly see the extent of the physical damage done to me over the course of the relationship, if my body would even be recognizable. What is even more detrimental to my daily life is the psychological trauma …

“Nearly every night of sleep is interrupted with me waking up, shaking in a cold sweat from nightmares as I have continued living the assault that used to be my reality.”

She said she is in constant fear.

“If one day I show up dead, I guess you know who to look for,” she concluded.

Folts said Schwartzlow was adopted by the Schwartzlow family, but he later got in contact with his biological father, and Schwartzlow described how he loved hanging out with a man he called “a big drug dealer.”

Folts noted the state Department of Corrections recommended two years in prison and two years of extended supervision for two charges, escape and strangulation. Folts recommended doubling that sentence.

Defense Attorney Michael Murphy said Schwartzlow’s biological father came into his life when the boy was 16, and the man’s money, power and the fact that “girls like him” had great influence on the boy.

He learned his negative behaviors from his biological father, not his adoptive family, Murphy said.

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[Bananamanize]

That looked like something out of a movie lol!! That last part “Awwww no fuckin’ way!” I lost it

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His reaction is priceless!

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He pulled a Ted Bundy move!