Walworth County Judge Daniel S. Johnson Lowers Cash Bond To $25K For Kimberlee Coronado Who Has Been Held On $100K Since March 2023 For Interfering With Child Custody Of Other Parent And Party To A Crime

Coronado's cash bond of $100,000 was reduced to $25,000 without any objection by the Walworth County District Attorney's Office.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

May 17, 2023

Elkhorn, Wisconsin - On Wednesday, Walworth County Judge Daniel S. Johnson lowered the required cash bond from $100,000 to $25,000 in the Kimberlee M. Coronado, 46, criminal case for interfering with the custody of another parent and party to a crime in the Ethan Valadez, 15, run away incident on January 10, 2023. Ethan decided to run away from his abusive father Ricardo Valadez and wanted placement with his mother, Julie Valadez in the Waukesha County divorce case Julie Valadez v. Ricardo Valadez.

Coronado was taken into custody without a warrant in Waukesha in mid March 2023 on connection with Ethan's run away incident.

Judge Johnson was recently named as a defendant in a federal Civil Rights lawsuit (complaint and injunction request) filed on May 12, 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the District Court of Hawaii. https://bit.ly/3OkaFFK

In the federal lawsuit, Coronado who is one of plaintiffs that include Julie Valadez, Katherine Alamea-Xian and others claimed that Coronado was held in confinement in Walworth County violating her 8th Ammendment right against cruel and unusual punistment with an excessive must pay cash bond of $100,000 since March.

Update:

On Thursday, May 18, 2023, Kimberlee Coronado, 46, from Waukesha made bail after getting a GPS ankle monitor and no longer at Walworth County jail.