(Kenosha County Sheriff)
A Milwaukee man is holding at the Kenosha County Jail on a $500,000 cash bail for more than a year of serious allegations. Paul L. Augustine is facing the following criminal charges:
5 Counts of Felony Stalking
11 Counts of Felony Bail Jumping
1 Count of Felony Intimidation of a Witness/Threaten Force, etc.
5 Counts of Felony Misappropriate ID Info – Harm Reputation
3 Counts of Felony Threats to Communicate Derogatory Info
2 Counts of Felony False Reporting of an Emergency (Swatting)
3 Misdemeanor Counts of Defamation
and
4 Counts of Obstructing an Officer
If convicted of all charges, Augustine faces almost 150 years in the Wisconsin Prison System. According to the criminal complaint, between May 1, 2023 and March 25, 2024, Augustine intentionally engaged in a course of conduct directed at a specific person to wit former KUSD School Board member Carl Bryan, his lover, and his former lover’s mother, that caused those people and that would cause a reasonable person under the same circumstances to suffer serious emotional distress or to fear bodily injury or death to themselves or to a member of their family or household.
A Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department detective was investigating a complaint made by Bryan, who said that he broke up with his boyfriend when his boyfriend was sent to prison for OWI (4th). Bryan’s best friend, Paul Augustine, began to contact Bryan, pretending to be Bryan’s ex boyfriend and his ex-boyfriend’s mother. He was spoofing Bryan. Spoofing is when you use an app or a device that makes the person you are calling think it is someone else they know. Bryan’s new boyfriend “Spencer” started to receive many spoofed messages as well. Spencer’s mother then received similar messages. Bryan kept a spreadsheet of the contacts and said he was contacted by random phone numbers over 200 times.
The ongoing harassment has included not only phone calls and text messages but also phone calls, often utilizing a voice changer, to services such as tow companies, plumbers, and electricians directing these unwanted services to Bryan and Spencer’s residences and calls to Spencer’s place of work falsely accusing him of sending inappropriate photos to minors, and swatting type calls.
Augustine gave a signed, written statement to the Sheriff’s Department claiming that about two months after Bryan’s ex boyfriend was released from jail, he sent Augustine a message on “Grindr” (a dating app) accusing Bryan of cheating on his ex with Augustine. Augustine also claimed that Bryan’s ex made accusations that Augustine was the reason Bryan’s ex and Bryan’s relationship ended.
A Kenosha County Sheriff’s Detective served a search warrant for a popular “spoofing” app and learned that Augustine was lying to investigators and he was the one contacting the trio. The Detective stated that on September 6, 2023, Bryan received two text messages from a random number. These messages began “You will have hell to pay & all I can[‘t] wait for is the shit storm that is about to wreak havoc on your life…on all three of you. From the times you made me believe we had a chance even after I should have known you were a liar”. The second message begins “How hard was it to call me an Uber that night almost like you’re glad that it went the way it did”.
Augustine’s behavior escalated to swatting Bryan and his boyfriend. Swatting is defined as “the action or practice of making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of armed police officers to a particular address.” Augustine called the police to advise that there was an interaction with a knife involved at Bryan’s home. This elicited an emergency response from the Sheriff’s Department. The dispatcher noted that it sounded like the called was using a voice changer.
Augustine was interrogated by a Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department’s detective where he changed his story several times and finally admitted he had spoofing apps on his phone, but that he didn’t download them and his phone must have been hacked. Augustine was arrested and charged with three counts of stalking and one count of obstructing an officer for giving false statements to police.
Augustine was arrested on January 23, 2024 and charged on January 25, 2024. He was given a $5,000 cash bail after court on the 25th, which he paid promptly and was released.
It wouldn’t take long for Augustine’s behavior to continue and turn potentially deadly. Augustine continued to call, text and otherwise communicate with Bryan and Spencer. Augustine then tried to buy a gun, but failed the background check. He then started to research where the Sheriff’s Detective lived. He wanted to blow up the Detective or hire someone kill the Detective.
Augustine was charged with a new felony file on August 7, 2024 and re-arrested on August 8, 2024. He was then slapped with a $500,000 bail. Bryan and Spencer have since filed restraining orders and have court on those later this month.
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Sounds like a case for sgt.Hard to investigate
Obviously has serious mental issues. Sad excuse of a life
Now that’s how you take a mugshot. It’s almost Frank Carson-esque.
https://www.cerescourier.com/news/crime/nine-arrested-in-kauffman-case/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/214lHyW3lc93agdb1JzLOi
Too much gay shit here…..
Definitely
FAGS
Shut up!!
What a nice fella why they pick on him
“Homosapian……..it’s a killer fag”…………………Archie Bunker
Carl was Yolanda’s hand picked replacement on the KUSD Schhol Board for Eric Meadows (when she tried to push him out). What a great candidate he would have been…
Wow victim blaming much??? I’m sure you also believe that Casey Anthony’s daughter had it coming and that Elizabeth Smart deserved to be kidnapped.
Wow, reaching much? Way to make assumptions. #TolerantLiberal
It is hilarious when the left eat their own.
It’s hilarious when the right projects to hide their constant gay urges.
Hmm. Who is projecting about “gay urges”? You buddies with crispy Carl and crew on Grindr too?
Only gay for you^
How does this even make sense? In what way are you saying that is what is happening here?
Kevin, could you look into and do an article on Kevin Siler arrested yesterday by Pleasant Prairie for HOMICIDE BY NEGLIGENT HANDLING OF DANGEROUS WEAPON/EXPLOSIVE
Kevin, There was a murder in 2019 in Pleasant prairie that never went public and I have no idea why, this guy was rumored immediately to be the one that did it. Yet he been free and in and out of jail for other reasons since then. I’m wondering if this is related to the 2019 murder. And why was the murder never public
https://inmate.kenoshajs.org/NewWorld.InmateInquiry/kenosha/Inmate/Detail/-14056
I saw this, thats why I’m asking Kevin to dig into it for a story
this is my kinda story
So I gave oral to a guy once! Now I’m labeled for life 😲
Wait, Carl Bryan is a rump ranger ?
Butt Pirate as well
It’s sick to see how many homophobic people are still out there in 2024. This is a story about something terrible that happened to someone, and these are responses to it? I hope you are just dumb kids or something.
Sex between two men is an illness
And a sin.
Friendly reminder that the victims’ sexual orientation is the least interesting thing about this case.
Perverted
What a bunch of homos.
Sgt hard especially
I wonder what he would get for those orange undies? Are they clean or matted with man smell?
Any relation to Matt Augustine?
Matt’s trans daughter. She is now a he. Trans Men rule!!
I know him personally. Can’t believe how many MAGA lovers are coming out against him because he is a gay man.
It’s nice to see the maga people eat their own
Hmm this guy is a Maga peep? I’d bet money he’s not…
This guy initially contacted me on Grindr awhile back. Glad I never got involved with now with what I know! He must have some real mental issues!
Looks like he’s still in jail…. must be serious