Shorewood Police Busy with Drunken Driving Arrests Over Weekend

Along with one driver who was under the drinking age, Shorewood police made a few drunken driving arrests over the weekend.

Late Saturday night, police pulled over a car in the 3900 block of North Oakland Avenue for speeding. After smelling alcohol coming from the inside of the car, the driver, a 20-year-old Shorewood man, was asked to perform a sobriety test and consent to a breathalyzer. While he came in under the legal limit with an .4 blood alcohol concentration, he was cited for underage drinking.

Sunday, a 37-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for operating while intoxicated after initially being pulled over by police for speeding. When pulled over in the 3600 block of North Oakland Avenue around 2:40 a.m., police say they smelled alcohol on the Milwaukee man’s person and noticed his slurred speech. He failed a subsequent sobriety test and his blood alcohol content registered at .15.

Also Sunday night, police pulled over and later arrested a 23-year-old Hales Corners woman in the 4000 block of North Oakland Avenue after she was observed driving without her headlights on and police later noticed she was drunk. She failed a sobriety test and had a .14 blood alcohol content, police say.