Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Extra effort and resources will focus on both drunken driving and speeding as police seek to protect those out to enjoy the beginning of summer.
The High Visibility Enforcement OWI Task Force will be out this holiday weekend, with most metro area agencies deploying additional officers all weekend long for Memorial Day. Wauwatosa will be no exception. In fact, as usual the Tosa Police Department takes a leading role in Task Force deployments. "There will be a slew of different enforcements out there," promises Tosa PD Capt. Tim Sharpee, who is the Task Force coordinator for the whole region. Besides bumped-up drunken driving enforcement, Tosa plans High Visibility speed monitoring as well, Sharpee said. "With it being Memorial Day, we know people are going to be traveling," Sharpee said. "It's supposed to be nice weather, so people will be using the parks, they will biking and …
Monday, May 20, 2013
Curious crashes and odd exchanges mark arrests of several first-offense OWI suspects.
At 3:09 a.m. May 9, a man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after he crashed into two metal poles following an odd altercation with his wife. Two citizen callers alerted police, one of whom, in the 2100 block of Swan Boulevard, said there was a woman running down the street yelling "Call the police!" The other caller, moments later, reported a crashing sound at Swan and North Avenue. Separate officers located the wife and her husband at about the same time, and reported that both appeared highly intoxicated. The driver was uncooperative and so beligerent he was restrained and handcuffed immediately and put in the back of a squad car, where he commenced kicking and screaming. He refused to make a statement or to …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The National Transportation Safety Board wants another lowering of the blood-alcohol standard for drunk driving. It stands at .08; the NTSB wants it at .05.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants the blood-alcohol threshold for drunk driving to be lowered to .05 from .08. Wisconsin followed the rest of the country from a .10 to .08 standard in 2003, under the threat of losing federal highway funds. The state had almost 29,000 DUI arrests in 2011, almost 10,000 fewer than in 2000 but still the sixth-highest per-capita amount in the country. And police regularly arrest people for driving with concentrations two and three times the current legal limit, and/or for multiple convictions. Will a lower limit make Wisconsin citizens safer in any way? Or is it simply an unnecessary government intrusion? Vote in our poll and comment below. Related polls:
Friday, May 17, 2013
If set-up accident scene doesn't resonate with all students, followup film and testimonials do, as pre-Prom documentary of alcohol-related deaths hits home.
An eleborate mock crash scene set up Thursday morning at Wauwatosa East High School was only the beginning of an intensive two-day course of events designed to drive home the danger of mixing alcohol and automobiles. For some students, Thursday's mockup didn't quite live up to its billing in shock value: It was a little too staged, they thought. They were kept at a distance while firefighters and police officers swarmed around two smashed-up cars that supposedly contained friends of theirs – but they were barely visible. And then, too, the scene was crawling with camera operators intruding on every scene, poking lenses between paramedics and victims, police and perpetrators. It was a little shocking just knowing that was your friend out …
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Blaring music and failure to pay tickets and maintain proper registration make a quick trip to the convenience store a beacon for police attention.
A man with two drunken driving convictions on his record probably could have gotten away with a quick errand in the neighborhood had he not gone out of his way to draw so much attention to himself. At 2:50 a.m. – an hour when few are on the road but many who are have been drinking – on May 8, a patrol officer at Wauwatosa Avenue and West Center Street heard extremely loud music pounding from a car at the BP gas station on the corner. The officer pulled in and saw that nobody was in the car. He ran the plates and found they were suspended for unpaid parking tickets and expired since January, yet there was an improper 2014 registration sticker on the back plate. The officer pulled out and parked north of the gas station to watch, and soon a …
Monday, May 6, 2013
Making a name game of sobriety tests cuts no mustard with a patrol officer when it's 3:30 in the morning.
A driver being tested for soberness adopted a playful attitude, but if she got even a smile out of the police officer doing the testing, he wasn't saying so in his report. The woman was stopped in the early morning hours of Thursday and arrested on suspicion of operating while intoxicated after she drove erratically and ran a red light in front of a patrol officer. At 3:36 a.m., the officer reported, he was enforcing overnight parking violations in the area of West Garfield Avenue and North 65th Street when he saw the woman stop at that corner and not move for more than a minute. She proceeded south on 65th and then turned east on Lloyd Street, where the officer saw her drifting across the center line and then go through a flashing red at …
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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.” 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…
Friday, April 26, 2013
Besides suspected felony five-timer, recent arrests include a 3rd-timer, a 2nd offender who blew a whopping .30 blood alcohol concentration with a child in his car, and a driver now on his 2nd offense who caused a collision while operating with a .24 BAC.
A Milwaukee man has been charged with his fifth count of operating while intoxicate after a display of dangerous driving early Monday morning on the streets of Wauwatosa. Michael Ray Johnson, 59, was charged Thursday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with fifth-time operating while intoxicated, a felony punishable by up to six years in prison. According to police reports: At 2:17 a.m. Monday, Johnson was arrested after a traffic stop for extremely erratic driving. A patrol officer was pulling up just in time to see Johnson take off with screeching tires from a flashing red light on Milwaukee Avenue at Wauwatosa Avenue. The officer followed, and said Johnson sped up to 45 to 50 mph in the 25 zone, and as he slowly caught up he recorded …
Monday, April 22, 2013
Despite his having all the wrong characteristics you'd want in a chauffeur, a group selects a West Allis man to shuttle them home from an exotic night club, police reports say.
When picking a designated driver for a night of drinking and entertainment, here are some handy tips on whom it would be wise to eliminate: Any one of those factors might factor a person out of most people's safe driving plans. Add them all together, and you have a recipe for trouble. According to a police report: At 2:51 a.m. Saturday, a 38-year-old West Allis man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, second offense, after he was stopped in the 5800 block of Blue Mound Road for speeding. A patrol officer reported that he was just pulling up to Blue Mound on 74th Street when a Chevy Suburban whizzed by, clocked at 54 mph in the 30-mph zone. The officer smelled alcohol when he spoke to the driver, but the man claimed he’d had only …
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Brewers pitcher told deputies he'd been at State Street bar in Tosa before he was pulled over and blew a .22 alcohol level, according to Sheriff's Department. But bar owner says Gallardo was there with his keeper.
Yovani Gallardo was drinking at a Wauwatosa tavern until shortly before his drunken driving arrest early Tuesday morning, the bar's owner said. But according to his bartender, he said, the Brewers' pitching ace was with his bodyguard and designated driver, an off-duty Milwaukee police officer. "We did everything we were supposed to," said Chris Leffler, owner of Leff's Lucky Town, 7208 W. State St. "We check for designated drivers. We have the taxi companies on speed dial." Leffler said he did not know how the bodyguard/designated driver arrangement broke down, but that it appeared to his staff that when the two left that Gallardo was in sober hands. "After that, I don't know," Leffler said. "He (the bodyguard) was supposed to be his …
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Brewers ace Yovani Gallardo told deputies he was drinking at this Tosa tavern before OWI arrest
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Gallardo booked and blew a .22 blood alcohol level
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9:14 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
@me Let us just agree that there may be a little more accountability for every law introduced in the future. Hmmm? more ›