Crime & Safety
OWI Follows Car-Tree Collision
It's a Milwaukee man's fifth OWI charge after he crashed his car into a tree on Douglas Avenue, Caledonia police say.
A man is facing his fifth drunk driving charge after he crashed the Nissan Sentra he was driving into a tree, said Sgt. Gary Larsen, of the Caledonia Police Department.
The 40-year-old Milwaukee man was taking a passenger in his car to work when he went into a ditch in the 7000 block of Douglas Avenue at 2:47 p.m. on Wednesday. The driver and passenger were uninjured.
However, the arresting officer smelled alcohol on the man, they conducted a field sobriety test on him and arrested him.
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Larsen said the department has submitted charges to the Racine County District Attorney’s Office.
“We also found out that he had a warrant out for him in Milwaukee for operating a vehicle while his license was revoked,” Larsen said. “So not only should he not have been driving drunk, he shouldn’t have been driving at all.”
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Police have submitted the charges to the Racine County District Attorney’s. However, those charges have not been issued and are pending the results of the blood work.
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