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Two Drivers Suspected of 2nd-Offense OWI Arrested Over 15 Minutes

Witness says Wauwatosa woman smacked into cemetery sign and drove away. She was stopped and tested at more than triple the legal alcohol limit.

 

 

Two drivers, a Wauwatosa woman and a man from Cudahy, were arrested last Friday night within less than 15 minutes of one another, and each is now facing a second drunken driving charge.

According to police reports:

At 2:13 a.m. Friday, a 35-year-old Wauwatosa woman was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, second offense, after a caller reported seeing a minivan collide with a cemetery sign at Wauwatosa and Meinecke avenues and then drive away.

A patrol officer spotted a minivan driving erratically on Menomonee River Parkway, followed, and pulled the woman over on North Avenue at Met-to-We Lane.

The woman smelled of alcohol, her speech was slurred, and she admitted having had a couple of beers at a Riverwest bar. She denied having been in an accident but could not explain fresh damage to the front of her van, with green paint matching that of the cemetery sign.

A background check showed that she had been convicted in March of operating while intoxicated and was restricted to driving with an ignition interlock and a blood alcohol concentration below .02.

She refused to perform field sobriety tests and was taken to the police station. After a 20-minute hold, during which she urinated on herself, she agreed to take an evidentiary breath test and registered a whopping .26 BAC, more than three times the legal limit in Wisconsin.

At 1:59 a.m. Friday, another report said, a 32-year-old Cudahy man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, second offense, after a patrol officer saw him run a flashing red light at West 97th Street on Blue Mound Road.

The driver admitted to drinking three beers, and a background check showed he had been convicted of OWI in August 2010. He performed poorly on sobriety tests and registered a BAC of .13 on a breath test.

Related Topics: Crime, Drunken Driving, Police Reports, and Wauwatosa police

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4:03 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012

hmm, seems like alcohol causes a lot of problems in the state.
I think it is about time to discuss legalized hemp and cannabis for WI.
There are many reasons, but one is that potheads seldom pee on themselves.

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