A Janesville man who held a family member at gunpoint before being arrested by the Janesville Police Department’s SWAT team in April of 2024 is found guilty but not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
At his plea hearing in Rock County Court Tuesday afternoon Judge Barbara McCrory said that 47-year-old Joshua Kahn suffers from Schizophrenia.
Kahn plead guilty to first-degree reckless endangering safety and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Additional charges of failure to comply with police and disorderly conduct were dismissed but read into the record.
According to the criminal complaint, Janesville Police used tear gas and rubber bullets to take Kahn into custody following a two-hour standoff. Kahn was apparently not taking his medication and was upset over the death of a parent.
Judge McCrory ordered that Kahn spend the next seven-and-a-half years in a secure mental health facility under the care of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
