Two Women Get Second OWIs in Afternoon Arrests

Two women arrested separately last week on the streets of Tosa for drinking way too much and driving were so intoxicated by late afternoon that neither of them was capable of completing a field sobriety test.

One of them had her 1-year-old grandchild in the car with her.

At 5:03 p.m. Thursday, a 64-year-old Wauwatosa woman was arrested for drunk driving, her second offense, after a neighbor on Blanchard Street called police to report that she had just left in her car, clearly intoxicated, and wearing a bath robe.

He told an officer that it was a frequent occurrence for the woman to drink heavily through the day and then go to a store to buy more alcohol. On one occasion, he said, she had backed into his gas meter and destroyed it.

The officer waited nearby and within five minutes, he reported, the woman returned. She was carrying a large bottle of wine in a bag and admitted she had already drunk one bottle of wine that day.

She was incapable of performing a field sobriety test and blew a 0.21 blood-alcohol content on a breath test.

Drunk, disorderly and 'caring' for a child

At 3:42 p.m. Monday, a 50-year-old Racine woman was arrested for drunk driving, her second offense as well, after police were called to Red Lobster, 2801 N. Mayfair Rd., on a report of a disorderly patron who had a 1-year-old child with her.

Several members of the restaurant staff said they believed the woman to be intoxicated, and the manager said she had become so rude and disruptive that she had the woman’s food packed to go and told her to leave.

Police arrived so quickly they spotted the woman backing out of a parking spot, and an officer hit his emergency lights and blipped his siren to try to stop her in the parking lot. But she left the lot and drove another block south on Mayfair before pulling over.

She proved to be incapable of completing the steps of a field sobriety test without falling. She blew a 0.20 BAC on a preliminary breath test at the scene and a 0.17 on an evidentiary test later at the police station during booking.

The woman was found to be on probation for resisting an officer and was arrested not only for an enhanced OWI for having a child passenger – her grandchild – but also for disorderly conduct, operating after revocation and violating probation. She was sent to the County Jail.