BRAINERD — A 34-year-old Brainerd man was charged May 28 with malicious punishment of a child. Alexander James Meese was charged in Crow Wing County District Court with felony malicious punishment of a child causing substantial bodily harm, felony domestic assault by strangulation and gross misdemeanor malicious punishment of a child.
Meese made his first appearance in Crow Wing County District Court on May 28 and, according to court documents,…