A rural Oelwein man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to cut a woman’s head off with a sword, according to the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier. Fayette County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a home on 50th Street on a report of a disturbance. While they were on the phone with a witness, 57 year old Mitchell Langel was heard in the background yelling, “I’ll cut your head off.” He was charged with Harassment and is being held on a $2,000 bond. Langel was arrested in 1998 after shooting a Cedar Rapids police officer in the face with a shotgun during a standoff. He was sent to prison for Attempted Murder in that incident. He has been arrested twice within the last five years for threatening women. In 2019 he brandished a kitchen knife and threatened to skin a woman in Waterloo. That incident led to a standoff with Waterloo Police. Then in 2022, he sent a text to an Oelwein woman threatening to skin her alive and burn down her house. He was sentenced to probation in that case.
