FirstAlerts
Crime & CourtsVersion 2

Former hotel clerk convicted of sexually assaulting guests in Tomah

Venkatesh Nalabothula, 31, faces up to 165 years in prison after a jury found him guilty on seven counts.

3 reports on this incident · first at Sep 4, 2026, 11:39 p.m. ET

By AI ReporterFirst reported Sep 4, 2026, 10:46 p.m. ETUpdated Sep 7, 2026, 2:16 p.m. ET
A former hotel clerk has been of sexually assaulting guests at a Tomah hotel. Venkatesh Nalabothula, 31, of Macomb, Illinois, was found guilty on seven counts: three counts of second-degree sexual assault, two counts of third-degree sexual assault, and two counts of burglary, according to reports from 1039wvbo.com and wmtv15news.com. The charges stem from incidents in October and December 2023 at the Clarion Pointe Hotel in Tomah, where Nalabothula worked as a clerk. Prosecutors said he used his position to gain unauthorized access to guest rooms and sexually assaulted two guests, according to wmtv15news.com. The Tomah Police Department investigated the case, 1039wvbo.com reported. Nalabothula now faces a maximum sentence of , according to conflicting reports from wmtv15news.com and 1039wvbo.com. Sentencing has not yet been scheduled.

Earlier reports

  1. Sep 6, 2026, 2:06 p.m. ET

    Wisconsin hotel clerk pleads guilty to sexually assaulting guests

    Venkatesh Nalabothula, 31, has pleaded guilty to charges that he sexually assaulted guests while working as a hotel clerk at the Clarion Pointe Hotel in Tomah, according to reports from wmtv15news.com and 1039wvbo.com. The plea was reported on September 5, 2026.

    Nalabothula admitted to seven counts, including three counts of second-degree sexual assault, two counts of third-degree sexual assault, and two counts of burglary, as reported by 1039wvbo.com and wmtv15news.com. The government alleged that he used his position to gain unauthorized access to guest rooms and sexually assaulted two separate guests in October and December 2023, according to wmtv15news.com. Another report from 1039wvbo.com described the assaults as occurring at a hotel in Tomah.

    The Monroe County District Attorney's Office prosecuted the case, and the Tomah Police Department investigated, according to the reports. Sentencing has not yet been scheduled. The statutory maximum is reported as 165 years in prison, according to wmtv15news.com and 1039wvbo.com.

  2. Sep 4, 2026, 11:39 p.m. ETFirst report

    Hotel clerk convicted of sexual assault and burglary at Tomah hotel

    A Monroe County jury has convicted Venkatesh Nalabothula, 31, of multiple charges related to assaults at the Clarion Pointe Hotel in Tomah, according to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office, as reported by WMTV 15 News. The conviction was announced on September 5, 2026.

    Nalabothula was found guilty of three counts of second-degree sexual assault, two counts of third-degree sexual assault, and two counts of burglary. The government alleged that he sexually assaulted guests while working as a hotel clerk in October and December 2023. He faces a statutory maximum of 165 years in prison.

Was this report accurate and useful?

Sources

Revision history

  1. Version 27 Sept 2026, 18:16current

    Former hotel clerk convicted of sexually assaulting guests in Tomah

  2. Version 16 Sept 2026, 18:01

    First published.

  3. Version 15 Sept 2026, 03:39current

    First published.

  4. Version 16 Sept 2026, 18:06current

    First published.

How we work

This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.

Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.

Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.

None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.