Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Bucher's office fails to charge sex offender

David Blundell, whom witnesses claim threw a malt liquor beer can out of the ice cream truck he was driving, and whom New Berlin police say had a blood alchohol level of 0.255 when they arrested him, has been charged in Waukesha County charged with his second offense of operating while intoxicated (OWI).

However, the Waukesha Freeman reports (in the last paragraph) that Blundell, a convicted sex offender, has not been charged with any crimes regarding his sex offender status.
The Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry indicates Blundell is a lifetime registrant after being convicted in 1987 of second-degree sexual assault. He has failed to comply with registration requirements set by the Department of Corrections, according to the registry.
Failure to comply with the registry requirement can result in a Class H felony with a penalty of $10,000 maximum fine, six years in jail, or both.

What are District Attorney Paul Bucher and his office thinking? Doesn't he want to be the State Attorney General? Are these the types of stories he wants hanging on his campaign's neck?

We have the tools to lock these threats to society up. But it takes our prosecutors and judges to actually use them.

(note: I changed the headline from "lock up" to "charge" as the latter is more accurate. Bucher can't just lock someone up. Of course, nobody can if he doesn't charge them.)