Friday, May 3, 2013
Wisconsin's drunk driving-related incidents are the highest in the United States and state Legislators have crafted six bills to confront the issue, but they carries a hefty price tag.
Some state Republican Legislators want to toughen the laws for habitual drunk drivers and first-time drunk drivers if they cause an injury or killed someone, but the price tag for those laws could cost taxpayers up to $236 million, according to a story in the Wisconsin State Journal. Rep. Jim Ott (R-Mequon) and Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) have introduced six bills to the Senate and House. The bills would: Because of the jail time provisions, the state expects to have to build 17 facilities that would each house 300 people. "A fiscal estimate from the state Department of Corrections put the cost of the bill regarding third and subsequent offenses at between $169 million and $204 million annually. Other agencies also weighed in, …
Monday, April 22, 2013
The woman was seen driving the wrong way on West Burleigh Street while she was intoxicated. She'll serve six months in jail as part of her sentence.
A 50-year-old Dousman woman was sentenced last week for a fifth OWI offense from last year to five years in prison, but the sentence was stayed for three years of probation. Kari L. Campbell was sentenced in Milwaukee County Circuit Court for one count of fifth-offense operating while intoxicated and one count of operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration. Campbell was was spotted by police driving the wrong way on West Burleigh Street in Wauwatosa. The court stayed her five-year sentence on a number conditions that include she serves six months in the House of Corrections, get AODA treatment, maintain absolute sobriety with random urine screens, perform 30 hours of community service and pay a $1,200 fine. The …
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Walgreens delivery of drugs missing a bottle of powerful narcotic tablets, and pharmacist is sure it was stolen in transit.
At 1:41 p.m. Thursday, the pharmacist at the Walgreens store at 6600 W. State St. called police to report that a delivery of Schedule II narcotics was missing one 100-tablet bottle of Oxycontin in a powerful 40mg dosage. He said his staff told him that the shipment had been delivered by a different driver than usual. He checked with the supplier, who, he said, assured him that the company's redundant shipping procedures had accounted for every bottle packed. The pharmacist demonstrated to officers how it was possible to pry up one or the other end of the plastic totes the drugs are delivered in without breaking the tape “seal” across the middle of the tote. The missing narcotics were valued at $846. In other recent incidents: Monday A …
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Racing through red lights in the Village and driving into oncoming traffic on Mayfair Road are among violations leading to drunken driving stops.
Among four arrests on suspicion of drunken driving over the long Christmas and New Year's weekends were two second-offense citations, both involving extremely reckless behavior behind the wheel. The is little doubt that more reports will be forthcoming when Wauwatosa police have completed a roundup of Monday night and Tuesday morning stops during an OWI Task Force deployment. According to the police reports: At 1:49 a.m. Dec. 23, a 29-year-old West Allis man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, second offense, after a traffic stop for speeding and other infractions. The man drove southbound past a parked patrol officer in the 1700 block of Wauwatosa Avenue at 50 mph. The officer followed him, almost three blocks behind, through …
Sunday, December 9, 2012
An Oak Creek man arrested for drunk driving last week has six prior convictions, but only one since 1996. How much should that time span factor into what punishment he faces now, if at all?
Should the time between drunk driving arrests have an impact on how those people are handled in the courts? An Oak Creek man was arrested for operating while intoxicated last week near Mitchell International Airport. The 51-year-old man has six prior convictions, but only one in the last 16 years. If a person’s second OWI comes at least 10 years after the first, then it is generally treated like a “first offense” in Wisconsin. But if it happens a third time — no matter when any of them occurred — then the person is considered to have two first-offense convictions and a third-offense conviction. In the case of the Oak Creek man, he was given a two-year prison sentence for his sixth offense, in 2002, but it was “stayed,” essentially turning …
Saturday, November 10, 2012
A Wauwatosa man pulled over for suspicion of drunken driving is accused of resisting arrest after his passenger attacked officer, court records say.
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
A Wauwatosa man and his companion from Milwaukee have now been charged and can be identified in a case in which a sheriff's deputy said he was attacked from behind and brutally beaten during a drunken driving investigation. The Wauwatosa man is accused of resisting arrest after his friend attacked a Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy who was trying to administer field sobriety tests, a criminal complaint says. Matthew S. Sleider, 23, of Wauwatosa, was charged Tuesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of obstructing an officer and one count of disorderly conduct, while Brandon Stephen Bell, 22, of Milwaukee, was charged with one count of battery to a law enforcement officer and one count of obstructing an officer. If …
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Tosa man loses control and loses a wheel, and Brookfield driver knew he was in no shape to drive.
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- Jim Price
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Two suspected first-time drunken driving offenders were taken in on Tosa streets last week, one a Wauwatosa man and the other from Brookfield. At 11:41 p.m. Wednesday, a 26-year-old Wauwatosa man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after a caller reported seeing him drive into the parking lot at Pick ‘n Save, 6950 W. State St., on just three wheels. Police arrived to find the man rolling his missing wheel toward his car from North 70th Streer. He explained that he had lost control on wet pavement while turning from State Street onto North 70th and hit a curb. Police examined the accident site and found that the man had done just that but was probably driving too fast for conditions, as he had ended up skidding …
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Friday, October 5, 2012
Woman on probation from earlier drunken driving arrest commits most major traffic violations within a matter of a few blocks into, through and beyond the Village.
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- Jim Price
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Friday, October 5, 2012
A caller reported a suspected drunken driver, then followed and gave police a full description of the wild and dangerous maneuvers she witnessed as the woman careened through Tosa Village. It would turn out that the driver, at the wheel of a full-sized GMAC SUV, was already on probation for causing injury by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle. According to police reports: At 8:16 p.m. Monday, the 33-year-old Milwaukee woman was arrested for drunken driving, second offense, and violating probation after the call came in that she was driving recklessly through the Village area. The witness was following the woman southbound on Wauwatosa Avenue and said that her SUV had been veering into oncoming traffic, then ran a red light at Milwaukee …
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Man arrested headed toward Mayfair Road thought he was close to 28th and Beecher, while another takes issue with being arrested on a holiday.
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- Jim Price
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Two citizens were arrested recently in Wauwatosa for driving while drunk. One was seriously lost, nearly 8 miles from his destination and still headed in the opposite direction. The other was seriously misguided in his belief that holidays are a valid excuse for driving while intoxicated – and also about the powers of police to enforce the laws. At about 1 a.m. Sunday, a 20-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for operating while intoxicated, first offense, after he was pulled over for erratic driving at North 95th Street and West North Avenue. The patrol officer said he saw the man weaving back and forth across westbound traffic lanes and then across the centerline, causing one oncoming car to have to swerve to avoid him. After he was …
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Wauwatosa Police Department, participating in regional sweep on Memorial Day weekend, cuffs two through vigilance and has two more fall into its lap – none from our city.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The Wauwatosa police arm of the Southeast Wisconsin Multijurisdictional OWI Task Force was deployed again on Memorial Day weekend. And, as usual, a number of drinking drivers showed they have not learned that holidays bring out extra, dedicated patrols watching just for them. Task Force officers did not even have to work for two the four intoxicated drivers they reeled in. One obligingly drove into a ditch and another passed out at a gas pump. At 11:09 p.m. Sunday, a 36-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for drunken driving, first offense, after he ran his car into the ditch and crashed into a tree off the east side of North Mayfair Road in the 3500 block. The driver admitted he'd had a couple but said he had fallen asleep at the wheel …
Lika Phipps
11:12 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013
Drinking is a privilege. So is driving. If you can't be responsible, they get taken away, because obviously some people aren't responsible enough, so they have to be treated like children. If you want to get trunk off of your tuches, do it at home and stay there. No one wants to deal with obnoxious people who think they're Benny Parsons and end up doing too much damage than what it's worth. more ›