A Little Chute man who had been reported missing until he was arrested in Florida was booked into the Brown County Jail April 23 and faces sex crime charges in Brown and Calumet counties.
In October, the Fox Valley Metro Police Department asked the public for help in finding Noah Czarneski, now 20, who had last been seen in Little Chute Oct. 5. A vehicle that was previously driven by Czarneski was found Oct. 8 near Dundas in Calumet County, police said at the time.
Czarneski was arrested March 29 by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, according to sheriff’s office records. He has been charged in Lee County with providing law enforcement false identification.
Lee County Jail records show Czarneski was released from their custody April 23. He was booked into the Brown County Jail that same day.
At the time Czarneski was reported missing, he had an open case in Brown County with a misdemeanor charge of sexual intercourse with a child 16 years or older as a person 19 years or older and two felony bail jumping charges. A bench warrant was issued in that case after Czarneski didn’t appear at an Oct. 17 hearing, court records show.
Prosecutors allege Czarneski had sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl when he was 19 years old in February 2022, according to a criminal complaint. The bail jumping charges allege Czarneski made contact with minor females without a parent present despite being out on bail from a Calumet County case with a condition prohibiting that kind of contact.
In January 2025, Czarneski was charged in Calumet County with second- and third-degree sexual assault, both felonies, and with having sex with a minor aged 15 years or older while he was under 19, a misdemeanor. Prosecutors allege Czarneski sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl when he was 18 years old in January 2025, according to a criminal complaint. He has pleaded not guilty to all three charges.
Czarneski returned to Brown County court on the bench warrant April 24, according to court records. He had previously paid a $30,000 bail in the case and his bail was increased to $1 million at the hearing, meaning Czarneski would need to pay an additional $970,000 to be released from custody.
Two additional felony bail jumping charges were filed in Brown County Oct. 9 against Czarneski. At the April 24 hearing, a $25,000 bail was set for Czarneski in the new case.
Those bail jumping charges allege Czarneski violated two conditions of his bail in the original Brown County case after posting the $30,000 and being released, according to a criminal complaint. Prosecutors allege Czarneski contacted a 16-year-old girl over Snapchat, violating bail conditions prohibiting him from contacting minor females without parental supervision and from using any social media messaging apps.
Czarneski returns to court May 14 for a status conference in the sexual intercourse with a child case and a preliminary hearing in his new bail jumping case.
A bench warrant was also issued in Czarneski’s Calumet County sexual assault case after he missed a Nov. 4 hearing. Czarneski has not returned to Calumet County court yet and the warrant remains open. A $7,500 cash bail Czarneski had paid has been forfeited, according to court records.
On Oct. 17, Czarneski was also charged with felony bail jumping in Calumet County. He has yet to make his initial appearance in that case, which also has an open bench warrant.
In the Calumet bail jumping case, prosecutors refer to the same contact Czarneski allegedly had with a 16-year-old girl over Snapchat that led to his bail jumping case in Brown County, according to a criminal complaint. The contact violated a bail condition from the Calumet County sexual assault case requiring Czarneski not to have contact with any female minors unless a parent was present, the complaint said.
No future hearings are currently set in either of Czarneski’s Calumet County cases.
Vivian Barrett is the public safety reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. You can reach her at vmbarrett@usatodayco.com or (920) 431-8314.
This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Missing Little Chute man arrested in Florida has open Brown County cases
Reporting by Vivian Barrett, Green Bay Press-Gazette / Green Bay Press-Gazette
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