(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
Imagine being woken up just after dawn by the sound of a Sheriff’s S.W.A.T. team member on a loudspeaker calling for all occupants of your home to exit with your hands up. You do as ordered and you exit your home to see 39 law enforcement officers from multiple law enforcement agencies surrounding your home. One neighbor tells an officer, “It’s about time you take down this home.”
The police find drugs in your bedroom, your office, and in almost every room of your small, dilapidated home. They find an unidentified pill in the kitchen area, possibly a prescription pill with no prescription. They find a jar containing 3.2 grams of marijuana in your living room. They find .2 grams of marijuana in your office, that you admit to police “no one else has access to.” In your bedroom, they find .3 grams of marijuana and a package of “shroom gummies.”
In your kid’s room, they find 14 vials of steroids, boxes of syringes, a scale, two rolled-up dollar bills, charred tinfoil with residue, four glass pipes, a pill bottle with 6 yellow pills and two boxes of Narcan.
As a backstory, your mistress, died in your bed of an opiate overdoses almost three years ago. Your son, almost died twice in your home due to opiate overdoses, but brave deputies saved his life with multiple doses of Narcan. You know your son has had sex with at least three underage girls in your home. The police have been to your home and you lied to them, telling them there wasn’t an underage girl in the home. Once police tell you that they will be entering your home, you come clean, and finally tell the truth and get the underage girl. In fact police have been to your home many many times. Police also find evidence of child sex crimes and child pornography in the possession of your son. He’s arrested.
Are you arrested? If you are 99.9% of the residents of Kenosha County, the answer would be “yes.” If your name is Ted Kmiec, a lawyer and former politician, the answer is “no.”
Their Residence
(Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
This very scenario happened to Ted Kmiec just last month. He was not arrested and the Sheriff’s Department didn’t refer any charges against him at all. Not for the drugs, not for anything. Not even a non-criminal citation. Nothing. Why would Ted not be arrested with all that dope and other drugs? We don’t know. The Sheriff won’t tell us. Sheriff David W. Zoerner is Ted’s Guardian Angel.
Ted once called the police to tell them that I placed hidden “bugs” and cameras inside his home. I wanted to see the body-worn camera. I wanted to see what he told the deputies about me. Zoerner wouldn’t give it to me. He wanted to protect Kmiec. I had to sue him to get the video and transcripts of what was said in the home.
This is when I started to suspect that Ted was untouchable. Why the two classes of citizenry? We may never know. When Zoerner campaigned, he campaigned that marijuana was a “gateway” drug and that he would enforce its possession vigorously. He has. But not against a “Friend of the Sheriff’s Department,” Ted Kmiec. He is immune from charges from the Sheriff.
KCE initiated a public records request to the Sheriff for the amount of marijuana-related criminal referrals and citations for 2024. He refused to provide those numbers to KCE. Unfortunately we have to sue him again to get these numbers.
No one is ever going to be a perfect. Zoerner in my opinion has been a great Sheriff. But not here. He is helping someone out by shielding him of criminal charges. We may never know why. It’s a shame he won’t tell us. What are we missing? Why give big political favors for someone who is surrounded with death, drugs, and misconduct? What’s in it for the Sheriff? Ted isn’t an elected official anymore.
(File Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis can still charge Ted with possession of marijuana and possibly more charges, but that would be unusual. He wasn’t asked to charge him. We can only hope that Solis rebukes the Sheriff’s “get out of jail free card” for Kmiec and charges him anyway. Solis was afterall, elected to put an end to political favors like these.
Zoerner is a good Sheriff, but KCE must call balls and strikes. This is a strike. It’s a bad move and this type of cronyism shouldn’t happen in Kenosha County. It takes away from the professionalism of the deputies that work hard and risk their lives every day. We also must mention that the Sheriff hasn’t done anything and isn’t doing anything about the allegations of the 16-year-old boy exposing himself in front of 14-year-old girls at Westosha High School. The School Resource Deputy, Alexander Hyatt was notified of victims that wish to come forward, but Hyatt ignored them and refused to speak to them. Zoerner refused to intervene.
Do better Sheriff. The people are watching. The “Eye” is watching.
25 Responses
WTF???? Not Good! 😡
…to refuse a citizen complaint at the sheriff’s office?
Then we need to go directly to the DA !!!
How many times have we read that the police arrested someone and recommended charges only to see the DA Gravely not charge that person.
Since it’s obvious that the DA is in charge of the actual charging, why do we need the sheriff anyway ? Parents should go directly to the DA and file their complaint for charges there !!
Central Parents ? Call the NEW DA !!
File charges.
Let’s Go !
Question for lawyer:
– can a citizens arrest be made on Kmeic? I’ll do it
If so.
– Does salem lakes pay the county for a municipal officer that can make the arrest on behalf of Salem
Lakes? Charge him at the local level. Get it in front of the DA by whatever means necessary.
If the kid is a pedo the house seems very close to Salem and Westosha schools.
Mr Zoerner, Doing nothing is what Dave Beth would have done. You are better than that and you campaigned on it. Kevin is right on this one.
Sign me up as well
Well thanks to KCE, this piece of shit and his family have been exposed. I think I would rather take silent criminal charges that won’t show up in a google search, than to have my name blasted all over the internet pointing out exactly who and what I am.
Ohhhhh I have a great Zoerner story pertaining to uniform code of conduct and about 7 other sheriffs!!!!That connects with the village of Bristol. I’ve kept it under wraps but I’m at the point where I’m gonna spill the tea on everyone….
Do it.
Spill the beans as well
You have been too kind to the sheriff. You helped him get elected and he turns out as corrupt as any other Kenosha official. You can’t be friends with these types and keep your integrity as a journalist. It seems you are learning this lesson. They cast you out as soon as they are done using you.
100%
Ahh yes the DA who has run out all of his assistant DA’s because he has no idea what he is doing. He was elected solely because of his party affiliation. Can’t wait for our courts to be so back logged people stay out on the streets instead of jail because of incompetence.
No the little shitheads left because they don’t want to work with Solis. Which Solis just started and is doing a good job. Carli and Graveleys crew let those criminals out by being soft on crime.
Sheriff Dave wow. Corruption that is best. He always talk bad about sheriff Beth. By the way he endorsed Donald Trump. Now he won’t charge people. Maybe he won’t support the people he endorsed.
Oooh bad man I think you gotta throw the book at him! I LOVE JUSTICE! I LOVE YOU!
Greed and corruption
Rumor has it Deputy Nicole Sorenson is also a Kmiec “guardian angel.” She protects that family the same way Zoerner does unfortunately. I wonder what happens behind closed doors between Ted and Kenoshas law enforcement? What secrets are they hiding… why does Ted get an upper hand simply for being an attorney. The law IS the LAW. He ain’t anymore special than the average person matter of fact he’s a POS just like his creep ass son.
Corruption.
Not a good look Sheriff.
Another politician who lies
He has dirt on city officials
Stories like these would not have came out if it wasn’t for KCE. Another side to all stories. Kenosha News has become wanna be mainstream media that they barely report on Kenosha WI. Just slander on big politicians.
Jeez one week in and KCE is already criticizing the DA.
My guess is all these guys end up doing what the fuck they want regardless of what they said when they were running. That’s basically been typical of everyone KCE has endorsed….
Np that every politician period
Marijuana is NOT just a Gatweay drug.
Students at Parkside smoke it too.
Stop burning bridges. Not good. Ted’s life is destroyed. You won