VIOLENT INCIDENTS ARE PART OF SUSPECT'S HISTORY

Confrontations Are Alleged To Include A Baseball Bat, A Brick, Profanity
And Disorderly Conduct

Polk County court records show the man alleged to have shot three police
officers during a drug sting at a south Des Moines hotel has a history of
violent confrontations - and of bailing other violent people out of jail.

But neither Dennis Joseph Schofield nor a fellow suspect, Lee Michael
Castillo, have served jail time for illegal narcotics, according to county
records.

Court documents list a series of arrests for Schofield, 24, that began with
a September 2003 disorderly conduct charge. Schofield allegedly "directed
profanity" at some south-side liquor store employees who refused to serve
him without identification.

The charge ultimately was dismissed.

But "D.J." Schofield was arrested the following month after he took a
baseball bat into a suburban video arcade to fight two pool players and two
of Schofield's drunken acquaintances.

Schofield pleaded guilty of going armed with intent. He was sentenced to
two years' probation and ordered to attend an "assaultive behavior" class.

By the time the class met, Schofield had been arrested again. Court papers
say that in November 2003 he threatened to hit a man with a brick
"following a verbal exchange after being escorted out of the Lumberyard," a
strip club north of Des Moines. Schofield paid a $100 fine.

He later served two days in jail for a probation violation from the the
baseball bat incident. Documents show Schofield was arrested in February
2005 for interference with a police investigation after an assault at East
14th Street and University Avenue. He refused police orders and was sprayed
with Mace.

Records show Schofield posted bail for three other men arrested on minor
charges that included trespassing, driving without a license and domestic
assault between September 2001 and September 2004.

One of the men was Travis Wolfkill, a teenager arrested for loitering at an
elementary school in 2001 who now serves a life sentence for the murder of
his grandmother in 2002.

Court records show Castillo was arrested in 1999 for driving without a
license. A man named Michael Lee Castillo with the same birth date also was
arrested in 1999, court records show. He allegedly provided vodka and
whiskey to minors in a Des Moines hotel room.