Crime & Safety

Suspect Twice Threatens Officer After OWI Arrest

Driving impaired with an open beer in his car and a fraudulent sticker on his license plate, man still calls his stop 'petty' and tells officer he's now on 'borrowed time.'

A drunken driving suspect, despite facing only his first offense, threatened the life of the officer who arrested him, according to police reports.

At 12:12 a.m. Saturday, a 38-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after he was stopped in the 5900 block of West North Avenue for having an expired registration and a fraudulent registration sticker.

A patrol officer ran the driver’s plates at 60th and North and immediately pulled him over. The man insisted he had “already taken care” of his registration and it was now “straight.”

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Be that as it may, the officer reported a strong smell of alcohol on the man’s breath and a plume of beer odor emanating from the car. Peering in, he saw a spilled bottle of beer on the floor behind the driver.

The suspect could not keep his balance to complete field sobriety tests, yet he accused the officer of pursuing a “petty” incident and said he had friends and associates who would find out who the officer was and "take care of him."

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He also refused to give a breath or blood sample, and as it was a first offense, police declined to seek a warrant for a blood sample as now required by law.

As he was leaving the booking room, the suspect again threatened an officer, suggesting he was now “living on borrowed time.”


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