Updated April 12, 2016:
WAUPACA (AP) --Two people have been charged in the death of a man whose body was found in a Waupaca County ditch.
Prosecutors filed charges of first-degree intentional homicide and robbery with the use of force against 16-year-old Zachary Hohn of Tigerton and 24-year-old Adam Ozuna, of Bear Creek. Both had court appearances in adult court in Waupaca Tuesday afternoon.
The body found in the ditch has been identified as Matthew Pagel, 25, of Clintonville.
Authorities executed a search warrant Monday at a Bear Creek home a few miles from where the man's body was found near Clintonville. An autopsy on Pagel was expected to be done Tuesday.
Both men are charged with beating Pagel to death, and dumping his body in a roadside ditch near Clintonville. The victim's mother reported her son missing just hours before police called to tell her he was found dead.
In court, the judge had very little leniency with Hohn and Ozuna, setting a cash bond of $500,000 and ruling they have no contact with Pagel's family.
According to the criminal complaint, this all started over drugs.
Pagel was hoping to receive Adderall from Hohn and Ozuna, and was picked up from the Clintonville Motel around one in the morning Monday.
But the two men had other plans, says the complaint, and Hohn is quoted as saying they were going to rob him, but Pagel fought back.
Once the fight broke out, Hohn and Ozuna started throwing punches, hitting Pagel repeatedly until they killed him. The complaint says the two then dumped his body on Airport Road.
Later Hohn and Ozuna decided to drag Pagel into a ditch just off the road.
Then they came back one more time to steal his phone, which had text messages on it from them.
"There's nothing saying that they disliked each other," says Waupaca Co. Sheriff Brad Hardel, describing the beating as brutal, "they knew of each other so it was like, that day, they decided that's what they were going to do."
Police say they were tipped off to the two men's involvement from an anonymous caller who had heard Hohn bragging about killing Pagel.
If convicted both men could face life in prison.
Ozuna and Hohn are both scheduled to be back in court one week from Tuesday.
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Crime scene investigators are searching Airport Road southeast of Clintonville.
NBC26 reporter on scene saw hearse arrive and remove a body from the scene.
Our crew is awaiting additional information from the Waupaca County Sheriff's Department or the Wisconsin Department of Justice's crime scene unit.
This story will be updated as soon as more information is available.
