Crime & Safety
OWI Suspect Didn't Know Whether She Was Coming or Going
Driving west into Brookfield from Tosa, resident says she was on her way to Milwaukee – and, by the way, was dropping off her car for some work, but then again... maybe not.
It may be human nature to concoct a little story in your defense when confronted with a little blame.
But when you're over 2½ times the legal alcohol limit, it can be hard to make the threads of deception hang together.
As in the case of this driver.
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At 1:50 a.m. Monday, a 47-year-old Brookfield woman was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after she reacted rather suspiciously to just the sight of a Brookfield patrol officer.
She and the officer crossed paths at Capitol Drive and 124th Street, where she was going west on Capitol and he was going north on 124th but about to turn the same way onto Capitol. Both stopped at the light in sight of one another.
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The officer said the woman got the green light first and accelerated rapidly away, zooming down Capitol.
He followed, and at Reina International Auto, 12730 W. Capitol Dr., she turned quickly into the parking lot and shut off her lights. The officer reported that he had the distinct feeling she was trying to elude him.
He pulled in to see what she would do, and there was a brief standoff. She sat in her car. He watched. When, after a minute or two, she neither got out nor drove off, he decided it was time for a field interview.
The officer said that when he approached her car, the woman was trying to get out but was having trouble opening door. He told her to stay put. He noted a strong odor of alcohol that got stronger the more they spoke. Her speech was slurred and she had bloodshot eyes, he said.
First, the woman said she was dropping her car off to be worked on in the morning. But then again, she'd decided she wouldn't, and was just about to leave.
She was on her way home to Milwaukee, she said. But then again, she lives in Brookfield and was coming from Milwaukee.
Curtailing the conversation, the officer concluded, the woman was "not making sense."
He asked her to perform field sobriety tests. She failed. She agreed to a breath test and blew a .21 blood alcohol concentration.
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