Benjamin Antaramian (D) – Sergeant, Kenosha Police
KENOSHA, Wis. — Rebecca Antaramian, a Uline quotes representative, Democrat activist and former Kenosha Joint Services 911 dispatcher and certified training officer, has joined a local hate website as a blogger, creating an unusual connection to the Kenosha Police Department. Antaramian’s husband, Sgt. Benjamin Antaramian, is a supervisor with KPD, while her new boss, the founder and operator of the website she has joined, is currently a defendant in four pending criminal cases stemming from KPD investigations.
Antaramian herself has a lengthy background in emergency communications. Before working for Uline, she spent more than a decade as a 911 dispatcher and certified training officer with Kenosha Joint Services, the agency that provides dispatching services for the Kenosha Police Department and Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office.
Her husband remains with KPD, where he holds the rank of sergeant and serves in a supervisory capacity.
Benjamin Antaramian was also a lead detective in the Kyle Rittenhouse investigation following the August 2020 shootings. According to the KPD investigative report, Antaramian asked then-Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley to charge Rittenhouse with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide. Rittenhouse was ultimately prosecuted and acquitted of all charges submitted to the jury.
That makes Rebecca Antaramian’s new role noteworthy: the wife of a KPD supervisor is now writing for a website controlled by a woman who is simultaneously a defendant in four active criminal cases stemming from investigations by the same police department where her husband serves.
(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
New Boss Facing Four Criminal Cases
Antaramian’s new boss is a Kenosha therapist currently facing four pending criminal cases carrying a combined 11 charges.
Those charges include defamation, computer message-threaten/obscenity, disorderly conduct, knowingly violating a harassment injunction and multiple counts of misdemeanor bail jumping. She also has a pending OWI case. The charges remain pending.
In addition to her four pending criminal cases and 11 charges, Antaramian’s new boss is the defendant in a robust defamation lawsuit that she is almost certainly going to lose.
The website founder has also publicly acknowledged mental-health issues and has a documented history involving drugs and alcohol.
Records previously obtained by Kenosha County Eye documented an apparent suicide attempt involving Xanax and alcohol that resulted in hospitalization and a Chapter 51 emergency mental-health detention.
She has also admitted marijuana and cocaine use, according to previous KCE reporting. During the investigation resulting in her pending OWI case, police said she admitted consuming alcohol and taking Xanax, Vyvanse and Hydroxyzine before driving. She also expressed concern that cocaine could appear in testing.
Kenosha County Eye has described the website founder as a drug-using, mentally unstable therapist based on her documented conduct, statements, drug use, apparent suicide attempt and emergency mental-health detention. The description of her as mentally unstable is opinion, not a medical diagnosis.
Bottom Row – Judge Michael Easton (D) and State Rep Tip McGuire (D)
Deep Family Connections To Government
Antaramian’s connections to local government extend well beyond her husband’s supervisory position with the Kenosha Police Department.
Her husband’s extended family includes former longtime Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian, who also previously served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
The extended family also includes Edward R. “Ed” Antaramian, a former Kenosha city attorney who currently serves as interim municipal judge for the consolidated Village and Town of Somers Municipal Courts.
Other extended-family connections include Kenosha Municipal Judge Michael Easton and Democratic State Rep. Thaddeus “Tip” McGuire, who represents Wisconsin’s 64th Assembly District.
Combined with Antaramian’s own years working inside Kenosha’s emergency-communications system, the family has extensive connections throughout local government, law enforcement and politics.
(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
Another Uline Employee Contributing
Antaramian isn’t the only Uline employee contributing to the website.
Salem Lakes Village President Rita Bucur, a Senior Print Project Manager at Uline, has also contributed material to the website, including supplying photographs that were clandestinely taken.
Bucur’s involvement adds another government connection to the website: she currently serves as the elected president of the Village of Salem Lakes while simultaneously holding a senior position at Uline.
KPD Supervisor’s Wife Now Blogging For KPD Defendant
Antaramian’s new role creates an unusual intersection between local law enforcement and the website she has chosen to join.
Antaramian previously spent more than a decade dispatching for Kenosha-area law enforcement. Her husband currently supervises officers as a Kenosha Police sergeant and previously served as a lead detective in the Rittenhouse investigation. Her husband’s extended family includes numerous current and former government officials. Another Uline employee contributing material to the website is a sitting village president.
Her new boss, meanwhile, is currently a defendant in four pending criminal cases stemming from KPD investigations and carrying a combined 11 charges, as well as a defendant in a separate defamation lawsuit.
The criminal charges remain pending.
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Didn’t Judge Michael Easton’s father fornicate with ladies of the night and was banging prostitutes while his wife was battling cancer? Some real classy people in all the wrong positions.
Never forget- The mayors brother bought the huge lot along Sheridan Rd and 54th street for either $1 or $5 (can’t recall exact) from the city. It is used for “overflow” parking and is grass currently. It will be interesting to see when businesses or apartments are built on it. I would have loved to have been offered the $5.00 lot for about 3 acres downtown.
Sgt Antaramian was also the officer that agreed with charging Rittenhouse with possession of a “short barreled rifle” mid-trial because the barrel was only 16 inches long. Oddly, the statutory definition of a “short barreled rifle” is a barrel “less than 16 inches”. Insane that a KPD detective could not discern the fact that the rifle was 100 percent commercially purchased and within legal spec. You cannot become a detective unless you supposedly demonstrate investigative traits above and beyond the rest of the same group that applied at the same time (especially as a white male). Oddly, It was miraculous “how fast” an officer with the same last name was promoted to that position.
There’s nothing a good cop hates more than a bad cop.
I bet Liz Uihlein would be interested in learning that two of her employees are engaging in harassment and spreading woke liberal propaganda. 👀
With the twenty interview process one would thin Liz already knew?
I’ll forward this article to Dick, he is not going to like this.
Rita Really? You are such a disappointment. Is Rita still dating the Failed Farmer?
I have been wondering lately where Liz Uihlein really stands, is she still all RED????
Liz and Dick are in a tough spot. The Antaramian local and state level Democrat network can cause them and Uline a lot of trouble. That both Liz and Dick are (Maga) Republicans in Blue country makes them particularly vulnerable. Good on Eye for exposing this situation and the Antaramian family’s intergenerational Democrat network connections into KPD law enforcement and city-county judicial administration.
correction:
He wasn’t a “democratic member”, he was a DEMOCRAT member.
Brian Steil has yet to learn proper terminology as well, unfortunately.
Liberalism is a virus that spreads quickly in our local government. When they tell you that we need to build homes to lower your taxes, BIGGEST LIE EVER. Kenosha County Government is trying to get you to pay for all the housing their fortune 500 company’s need for their employees. Biggest scam ever!!! Bristol, Salem, Brighton, Wheatland, Randell, Twin Lakes, Somers- they want you land and they want taxpayers to pay for the improvements. F- Them
Uline bitches are crazy.