Jude gets probation for vandalizing store
Frank Jude Jr., who has had repeated run-ins with the law since a group of off-duty Milwaukee police officers brutally beat him in 2004, was sentenced Monday to probation for vandalizing a convenience store.
Jude, 38, of Oak Creek, entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors that reduced his felony count of criminal damage of property to a misdemeanor in the April 8 rampage at Teutonia Gas Station on Milwaukee's north side.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Jean Kies ordered him to pay $4,000 in restitution to the store's owner and to serve 60 days in the House of Correction in Franklin as a condition of his probation with work-release privileges.
Kies also gave him a nine-month jail sentence, which may be imposed if Jude fails to abide by the terms of his supervision.
Milwaukee police were called to the gas station at 4295 N. Teutonia Ave. and arrived to find several metal racks of food strewn across the floor and a shirtless Jude standing at the front door yelling through a broken window.
Security footage showed what appeared to be an angry and agitated Jude knocking racks of snacks and newspapers to the ground, shoving a microwave off a shelf and throwing a glass bottle at a window.
Two other cases against Jude from 2016 also were resolved Monday. In one, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct instead of the original charge of resisting an officer and received 18 months of probation. A separate resisting case was dismissed but considered during sentencing.
Jude was the victim of a brutal beating on a street in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood in October 2004. Seven police officers were convicted in the beating in federal court. Jude filed a lawsuit against the city, later settling it for $2 million in 2012.
Since then, his life has been marked by lawsuits, countersuits and run-ins with the law. Several years ago, he spent 500 days in jail in solitary confinement after he was charged with domestic violence. In that case, he ultimately was sentenced to time-served on charges of making a phone threat to a girlfriend and violating bail.
In court Monday, Jude said that he has worked with a psychologist for more than a decade and that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, flashbacks, anxiety, paranoia and depression as a result of the beating.