Overview

• Ryan Borgwardt, 45, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor obstructing an officer in Green Lake County Circuit Court.
• Judge Mark Slate imposed 89 days—nearly double the 45 days proposed in the plea—saying Borgwardt obstructed investigators for that duration.
• He was ordered to pay $30,000 toward costs from a roughly 58-day, multi-agency search of Green Lake that initially treated the case as a drowning.
• Prosecutors described a planned escape involving a new passport, a $375,000 life insurance policy, a reversed vasectomy, wiped devices, and attempts to move funds overseas.
• Authorities traced him through a Canadian passport check and, with help from a Russian-speaking intermediary, contacted him abroad before he returned from Georgia in December; his long-term marriage later ended.