FOND DU LAC, WI (WHBL/KFIZ) - A Fond du Lac County jury Thursday took 45 minutes Thursday to find a 62-year-old Kenosha man suspected of killing Berit Beck guilty of drug and bail jumping charges he was also facing.
The drug charges against Dennis Brantner stemmed from a search of him at the Fond du Lac County Jail last March when he was being booked in for the murder of the 18-year-old Sturtevant woman.
District Attorney Eric Toney says he’s pleased with the jury’s verdict in the two-day trial. “I think it was a very attentive jury that did a very good job listening to all the evidence and rendering a fair and just verdict.”
Brantner was charged with drug possession and bail jumping charges and eight of those charges were felonies. Toney says a pre-sentence investigation was ordered. “After the jury reached its verdict I requested that his bail be revoked and the court granted that, and then I also asked for a pre-sentence investigation and the court ordered for that report. So sentencing will occur sometime after that reports is received.”
Meanwhile, Brantner will go to trial in June for the 1990 murder of Beck.