Crime & Safety

Hit and Run Driver Had a Cocktail of Drugs

Five bottles of prescription medications may have something to do with two hit and run crashes and failed sobriety tests, police say.

 A woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs after a caller said she had hit her and then another car near Harwood and Glenview avenues. 

At 9:29 p.m. June 1, a Wauwatosa patrol officer spotted the suspect car at 76th Street and Blue Mound with severe front-end damage and smoke billowing out of the engine compartment.

But even after he pulled up behind with lights flashing, the driver continued and pulled into Gilles Frozen Custard, 7515 Blue Mound Rd. As the officer followed, the driver ran into a barrier in the parking lot, "which caused the vehicle to come to a complete stop," the officer wrote.

When the officer spoke to the driver, she said she was going to commit herself for treatment. She said she didn't see why she should stay where she was since she hadn't hurt anyone.

As smoke continued to pour out of her engine, the officer removed her to a safe distance and continued to question her. The woman could not keep her balance, he said, but she insisted she'd had nothing to drink.

Apparently, that was in true. She would later blow a .00 on an alcohol breath test, but she failed all field sobriety tests.

Officers found three bottles of prescription medicine in the woman's purse and two more in her car. Based on that, the two hit and run crashes and her perfomance on tests, the woman was arrested on suspicion of operating while under the influence of drugs.

A matter of balance

At 5 p.m. May 31, a patrol officer stopped a man in the 2300 block of Menomonee River Parkway after he clocked him doing 40 mph in a 25-mph zone.

The officer smelled alcohol and administered field sobriety tests. The suspect failed tests, being barely able to keep his balance, and then refused to take a chemical breath test for alcohol.

He was arrested at any rate and cited for operating while intoxicated, first offense.


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