GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Green Bay man is due in court Wednesday on charges he repeatedly stalked his ex-girlfriend.
39-year-old Jack T. Waite is charged with stalking and 2 counts of bail jumping. The stalking count has a domestic abuse enhancer, while all three charges have repeater enhancers.
According to the criminal complaint, Green Bay police were called for a harassment complaint on April 30 to the 1000 block of N. Platten Street. The caller told authorities that her ex-boyfriend, identified as Jack T. Waite, had been harassing her, following her, coming to her work and ringing her doorbell at 3 a.m.
One officer spotted a vehicle passing the squad car which matched a description given. After following the vehicle for a few turns, the officer conducted a traffic stop.
Waite told the cop that he stopped by his ex’s place to drop off some of her items. He claimed that he himself didn’t make contact with her, but that he had a, “Third party meet him and follow him there to have them bring the items to her.”
The officer was told that Waite knew of the no contact order in place, and that he parked across the street while the items were brought to the front steps. However, the cop noted that Waite had a bunch of stuff still in the back of his vehicle.
When asked about all that stuff, Waite replied, “Because some of my stuff is mixed in with some of her stuff and I needed to separate it.” Waite couldn’t come up with an answer as to why that wasn’t done prior to going to her house.
After Waite’s arrest, he told the officer in a statement that he woke up around 6:30 or 7 a.m. to call his friend to let him know he had to deliver some stuff to her. Before he left his house, Waite stated that he called his friend again to let him know he was leaving.
Waite said that he knew there was a man helping his ex-girlfriend remove her items from his apartment while he was incarcerated. He said he arranged to have his friend meet him at a nearby gas station, before making their way to the home.
He then said that he tried knocking on the door, but nobody answered, and so he just left all the stuff on the porch.
When the officer asked to check Waite’s phone to see the calls he had made, there were no calls made, received, or missed for the date of April 30 at all. Waite was asked why that was and he responded by saying, “I don’t know.”
Then on May 6, police were called to a business in the 1600 block of W. Mason Street for a report of a disturbance. The complainant stated that Jack T. Waite came into her place of work in violation of his bond conditions due to a no contact order.
An officer responded to the business and spoke with the woman and said that Waite came in to the store so he could give her some mail.
A check of surveillance video of the business shows a person matching Jack Waite’s description entering at 12:31 p.m. and talking with the victim. She told police that Waite makes her feel, “Sick to her stomach like she’s going to puke.” The victim added that she feels, “Paranoid and is constantly looking over her shoulder for Jack and she fears him because he attacked her several other times.”
Later on that night, police were again called to the 1000 block of N. Platten Street after both the woman and a man living there received numerous phone calls from Waite.
The complaint states that the woman told police that Waite had called her, “Approximately 35 times today,” and has begun calling the male friend. The officer looked at her cell phone log and confirmed repeated incoming calls from the same number, along with multiple numbers that were showing up as “blocked.”
The woman explained to the cop that Waite has been, “Following her around showing up at her work, at the house, at her kids’ school and at the kids’ babysitters’.”
Waite apparently keeps nagging her about getting back together, and that if she won’t take him back that, “He will testify in an upcoming custody hearing between her and the father of her children saying that she’s in an abusive relationship, that her male friend abuses the kids, and that she is an unfit mother.”
She goes on to again state that Waite’s actions have her terrified and, “Doesn’t know what Jack will do.”
Jack T. Waite was booked into the Brown County Jail on May 14. He’s currently being held on a $10,000 bond.
Waite is due back in court for his preliminary hearing on Wednesday. If convicted on all counts, Waite faces about 10 years in prison.
