Woman Charged With 6th OWI After Driving Drunk on Highway 45
Delavan woman speeds past sheriff's deputy Saturday during heavy downpour.
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A 56-year-old Delavan woman is facing her sixth drunk driving charge after she was caught speeding and driving erratically through Wauwatosa.
Consuelo Ehmke was charged Tuesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of sixth-offense operating while intoxicated. If convicted, she faces up to six years in prison and $10,000 in fines.
According to the criminal complaint:
On Saturday, a Milwaukee County sheriff’s deputy was travelling southbound on Highway 45 near West North Avenue during a heavy downpour when Ehmke came past doing 70 to 75 miles per hour, then slammed on her brakes once she got about two car lengths in front of the squad.
The deputy followed Ehmke as she continued to drive erratically and switch lanes without signaling before she eventually exited from I-94 at South 70th Street by crossing two solid white lines.
The deputy pulled Ehmke over, and she told him she had stopped drinking three hours before driving. She still smelled of alcohol, though, andfailed field sobriety tests. She had a blood alcohol level of 0.182, which is more than twice the legal limit to drive in Wisconsin.
She was previously convicted of OWI in 1992, 1994, 1999, 2003 and 2010. She’s currently being held in Milwaukee County Jail on $2,500 bond.
alt ideas needed
6:31 pm on Wednesday, May 30, 2012
She will not learn - six years in prison and $10,000 in fines maximum will get knocked down to 6 months.
Six years in prison and $10,000 should be the minimum.
We need a new plan. Tougher sentences for drunk drivers.
Jim Price
12:08 am on Thursday, May 31, 2012
I fear you are right, Alt Ideas, she will not learn, because she appears to be a hopelessly acute alcoholic. Probably a full prison sentence will not help, probably a longer prison sentence would not help (except, of course, to keep her off the road, protecting the rest of us, a good thing).
But I think what is needed, at a much lower level – like after one OWI – is not more incarceration but a much harsher proscription and enforcement from DRIVING at all, under any circumstances.
I'm not sure how this is to be accomplished, but people with one, two, three OWIs get their licenses back far too easily and start driving again far too soon.
So, alt ideas, give us some. How do you not only legally, not only theoretically, but actually keep someone from driving a vehicle for a meaningful time?
alt ideas needed
8:18 am on Monday, June 4, 2012
recently heard about DUI license plates for repeat offenders.
In 1967, Ohio began to issue special license plates to DUI offenders who are granted limited driving privileges such as work-related driving until a court can rule that they can have full privileges back. However, judges rarely enforced the plates, so in 2004, the plates became mandated by state law to all DUI offenders.[9] Unlike Ohio's standard-issue plates (which as of 2008 have a picture of the Ohio country side), the DUI plates are yellow with red writing with no registration stickers or graphics. They are sometimes known as "party plates".[9] Minnesota has a similar program, where the plates are white with either blue or black text. The plate number is a "W", followed by a letter and four numbers. These plates may be issued to drivers with at least 2 DUIs in a ten-year period.[10] In Minnesota, DUI plates are referred to as "whiskey plates",[11] whiskey being the name of the letter W in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
wikipedia
tazz
6:23 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012
I think she should have her hands and feet cut off so she can't drive no more. should like a one time big loser.