A caddy who got into a squabble with his roommate over some cheese pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor false-imprisonment charge, as part of a plea deal that resulted in the dismissal of two felony charges.
Pitkin County Judge Erin Fernandez-Ely ordered Jon Douglas Williams, 58, to pay a $100 fine and placed him on probation through Sept. 7, 2010.
He originally faced separate, class-five felony charges of false imprisonment and menacing, which each carried prison sentences of one to three years.
The disposition comes after police arrested Williams in August for allegedly wielding a knife on his 20-year-old caddy roommate at their Snowmass Village apartment. The dispute arose when the roommate accused Williams of eating some cheese from a refrigerator the two shared.
Court documents indicated the cheese in question was provolone and havarti.
The next day Williams wrote the roommate’s name on the cheese packets, which led to an altercation between the two. Williams, apparently upset that his roommate called him “stupid,” grabbed a kitchen knife and threatened him, police alleged in court filings.
The victim later called Snowmass police to report the altercation.
See what Williams told the judge at .
