The Brief
- Steven Trudell allegedly pointed a gun and shouted threats at an Indian Community School employee clearing brush along a property line.
- A court commissioner issued a 10-year restraining and firearm restriction order prohibiting Steven Trudell from possessing weapons or contacting the school, its property, and its staff.
- Trudell skipped the injunction hearing and is scheduled to appear in court next month for his related criminal charges.
MILWAUKEE – A court official issued a 10-year restraining and firearm restriction order against a man criminally charged with pointing a gun at a private Franklin American Indian school employee, during a dispute over brush being cleared from adjoining property lines earlier this month.
Steven Trudell, 62, did not appear before a restraining order court Wednesday morning.
Sept. 16 incident
The backstory:
ICS – a private, faith-based intertribal school that offers nearly 400 students from 4K-8th grade an education based on traditional Indian spiritual and cultural principles – owns nearly 180 acres of woodland, prairie and wetlands surrounding its campus near W. Martins and Loomis Roads.…