Man Faces 3rd OWI Charge After Town of Brookfield Crash

A Brookfield man ran a red light and hit another car while driving drunk in the Town of Brookfield, charges allege.

Josiah R. Lonski, 23, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Monday with third-offense operating while intoxicated, operating a motor vehicle after revocation of his license and two counts of OWI while causing injury.

According to the criminal complaint:

At 5:27 a.m. Saturday, a Town of Brookfield police officer was at a stop light at East Moreland Boulevard and West Blue Mound Road when he saw Lonski’s car approach the red light at more than 40 miles per hour and smash into an SUV trying to turn left onto Blue Mound Road.

Lonski and a passenger in the car were hitting a second passenger who was unconscious, trying to wake him up. The police officer told Lonski to stay in the car until rescue personnel could assess the men's injuries, but Lonski and one of the passengers got out and became uncooperative with the officer until they had to be “tactically decentralized” by a Waukesha County sheriff’s deputy.

Lonski later told an officer he had been drinking beer earlier in the night and was on his way to Arby’s at the time of the accident.