A Caledonia man remains in the Racine County Jail after police say he was released from the Milwaukee County Jail and threatened to kill his wife.
Felipe Estrada, 36, was charged Tuesday in Racine County Circuit Court with one misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, domestic abuse assessments. If convicted, he faces up to nine months in jail and/or up to $10,000 in fines.
According to the criminal complaint, Caledonia police was dispatched at 9:58 p.m. Monday to a home where a woman pushed the panic button of her home security system because her husband had just returned home after getting released from jail in Milwaukee. He had been incarcerated there since April 1 on an operating while intoxicated charge.
Officers say that Estrada told them he had every right to be in the home because he had a court order, but what he showed them were documents pertaining to a divorce proceeding.
The woman told police that she wasn't expecting Estrada to be released from Milwaukee until later this month so she was surprised when he showed up at her house. She told him to come back the next day, but he returned just 30 minutes later and was intoxicated, the complaint reads.
Estrada was admitted to the home because, the woman told police, she was afraid he would break down the door. But once inside, police say the woman said Estrada chased her around the house and shouted that he would kill her because she slept with his father and the children weren't his.
Neither the woman nor the children was injured during the incident, police reports note.
The woman has filed police reports with CAPD on previous occasions, the most recent being on May 30 when she reported being harassed by Estrada's girlfriend.
Estrada was assigned a $500 cash bond Tuesday. If he posts bail, he is prohibited from contacting the victim and her children, he cannot possess or consume any alcohol and he also cannot have possession of a firearm.
His next court dates are a pre-trial conference on June 20 and a status hearing on July 2.
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