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| Doesn't prevent crime |
GPS, didn't prevent this crime, nor will it prevent anything else. It only allows them to find the person afterwards, and who in their right mind, would commit another crime with the GPS on? He must want to go back to jail/prison.
08/01/2011
By Jim Price
Police dog helps "flush" suspect out of Underwood Creek after he breaks down door at victim's home.
A 44-year-old East Troy man who is a registered sex offender was arrested early Monday for battery and criminal trespassing after he forced his way into a home in the 1000 block of North 115th Street and struck and injured a 24-year-old Wauwatosa woman.
According to the police report:
The man was giving her a ride home Sunday evening when they began arguing and he put her out of the car several miles from home. She called for a ride home with a friend, but in the meantime the suspect arrived at her home and demanded money for gas from her parents, who called police.
Twice he disappeared before police arrived, and they called a third time after he showed up again at 11:50 p.m. By this time, the daughter was home, and he broke open the front door to confront her to “hash things out.” It was not clear from the police report what their relationship had been.
He grabbed her and twisted her arm and slapped her, and she broke a bone in her hand striking him back in defense. Again, he ran before police arrived.
A background check revealed a long criminal history, including his status as a sex offender. Officers called the Department of Corrections and learned the man was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.
The DOC quickly located his electronic signature in the 11900 block of Underwood Parkway, and following his movements, they determined that he was in the creek and moving upstream.
Wauwatosa officers closed in, and with the assistance of a Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department K-9 unit “flushed (him) out of the river" in the 12100 block of the parkway.
After his arrest, he told officers that he had run out of gas after putting the woman out of his car and just wanted help to get home. He tried to blame the break-in at the home on another man, an ex-boyfriend of the woman, about whom they had been fighting.
But both the woman and her parents gave statements that he alone had broken in the door and assaulted her.
When confronted with those accounts, he became abusive to police and refused to answer any more questions. He was scheduled for a charging conference Monday morning.
The woman was taken to the hospital and treated for the broken bone in her hand.
