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Since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers' Parole Commission has released hundreds of convicted criminals, freeing them early on parole mostly into Wisconsin communities, including more than 300 murderers and attempted murderers, and more than 47 child rapists. Daniel Yost was one of them. His release was discretionary. 47th in the series . A Portage police officer testified he heard Daniel Yost admit intentionally killing his wife. “I put it between her eyes and pulled the trigger; I meant to do it,” the officer testified he heard Dan Yost say. On May 2, 1990, Daniel Yost was convicted of one count of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of endangering another's safety, according to Court records. He received a life term. Killers with life sentences do not qualify for mandatory release. the parole was discretionary. Evers' Parole Commission Freed Daniel Yost Early [caption id="attachment_91991" align="alignleft" width="240...

This is #45 in a series. A serial child rapist and registered sex offender released in a discretionary parole by Tony Evers' appointee has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography. The parolee is Patrick S. Appel. According to the Department of Corrections' database , Appel, 53, is already back behind bars at Stanley Correctional Institution. DOC says that Appel was paroled on Sept. 23, 2020, and he was "returned from parole" on Aug. 29, 2022. What was Appel's original offense? In a 1997 case, he was convicted of three counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child and a count of bail jumping. The Park Falls man received 40 years in state prison for the rape counts and 5 years for the bail jumping offense. According to DOC, his mandatory release date was not until 2034. Thus, the parole was discretionary. Tony Evers' two-time appointee John Tate authorized Appel's release, and Tony Evers reappointed Tate after the parole...

Parolees freed by Gov. Tony Evers' appointee in 2022 are already endangering the community. A West Bend man who was paroled this January by Gov. Tony Evers' appointee after serving just 22 years of a 40-year sentence for a homicide conviction is back behind bars in Washington County after driving erratically on I-45 with a loaded illegal gun. The parolee, identified by sources as Floyd Marlow, used a racial slur after the murder of a man on a Milwaukee porch. He is not the only parolee released during Evers' tenure to reoffend. On Friday, we revealed that a violent rapist, also paroled in 2022, had already reoffended, trying to choke and attack a woman in Appleton. We had to sue to get the 2022 names. According to Washington County Sheriff's Department Facebook post dated Oct. 20, Last evening at 10:36 PM the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center received multiple 911 calls of an erratic driver on US 45 near Pleasant ...

Milwaukee County Sheriff Earnell Lucas has resigned and took a position as Fiserv's Vice President of Security for Wisconsin, starting Monday, Oct. 24. Sheriff Lucas has worked in law enforcement for 46 years and has served as the Milwaukee County Sheriff for the last four years. There is no word yet as to who will replace him. About Earnell Lucas Sheriff Lucas' career began in October 1976. In a 25-year career with the Milwaukee Police Department, he served as the department's public information officer and as a district commander and retired at the rank of captain. Sheriff Lucas survived a gunshot wound as a young officer but overcame it to finish his career. Sheriff Lucas was appointed Major League Baseball’s Supervisor of Security for Commissioner Allan H. “Bud” Selig in 2002. In a 17-year career, he rose to oversee all of security at Major League Baseball as the Vice President of Security & Facility Management and later served as the Chief Liaison of S...

An Appleton man who was paroled this June by Gov. Tony Evers' appointee after serving just 23 years of an 82-year sentence for a violent rape and false imprisonment conviction is already back behind bars for attempting to commit an eerily similar crime. [caption id="attachment_91776" align="alignleft" width="217"] Kenneth Moffett[/caption] Kenneth Moffett, 58 was charged on September 23, 2022, with one count of strangulation and suffocation, and one count of false Imprisonment, both felonies, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Wisconsin Right Now from Outagamie County. The crime is almost a mirror image of the rape he was convicted of in 1998. According to WI DOC records , Moffett was paroled on June 7th of this year after serving 23 years of an 82-year sentence. His mandatory release date was in 2053. He was an old law inmate, and the parole was discretionary. WRN has reported that, since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers’ Parole Commission...

You can't make this stuff up... The man pushed out as the head of Wisconsin’s Parole Commission after critics said he let dangerous people out of prison is set to become the new violence prevention manager in Racine. Racine Mayor Cory Mason announced Wednesday that John Tate II will take over the role. “The City continues to invest in traditional law enforcement. The creation of this position allows us to bring an additional public health perspective to crime and crime prevention,” the mayor said in a statement. “We know we need to use every tool available to us to reduce violent crime.” Tate was asked to resign by Gov Evers from his previous position as Wisconsin Parole Commission chairman in June after it was discovered he paroled a man who brutally murdered his wife in Wauwatosa in 1997. Her family said they never heard from Tate or the Parole Commission until after the man’s release was approved. The case became an election-year issue, giving Gov. Tony Evers’ critics a...

School across Southeast Wisconsin are receiving threats of school shootings. So far all seem to be fake. Active shooter threats have been reported at the following schools. Again at this time all seem to be false: Port Washington High School in the Port Washington-Saukville School District Rawson Elementary School in the South Milwaukee School District Bradford High School in the Kenosha Unified School District Rufus King High School in the Milwaukee Public School District Franklin High School in Franklin Public Schools LakeView Technology Academy in the Kenosha Unified School District Park High School in the Racine Unified School District Law enforcement is reporting no evidence of an active shooting threat. False reporting like this is described by law enforcement as "swatting."