Milwaukee DV Murder Suspect Was on GPS Waiting List, Out on $250 Bail
Dennis Kurasz, who is accused of a domestic violence homicide, was on Milwaukee County's electronic monitoring waiting list for a previous domestic violence and felony case involving the same victim, Wisconsin Right Now has exclusively learned. He was released in the pending case on just $250 bail, but the county couldn't come up with a GPS device to better monitor him.
We previously wrote about Milwaukee County's waiting list for electronic monitoring bracelets. It's left some violent offenders without tracking devices, endangering the community.
A source gave us the information about Dennis Kurasz and the chief judge, Mary Triggiano, confirmed in an email that she believes Kurasz was on the waiting list. "I believe he is/was," she wrote WRN in an email on Dec. 28, 2021.
The open case was filed in May 2021 and charged Kurasz with possession of a firearm as a felon, domestic-violence battery and disorderly conduct with domestic abuse assessments. On M