Crime & Safety
Seatbelt Violation Leads to 7th Drunken Driving Charge
Brookfield Police Department arrest New Berlin resident after he was driving with a .022 percent blood alcohol concentration, according to a complaint.
A New Berlin man is charged with his seventh drunken driving offense – with a .022 percent blood alcohol concentration – after police say he was driving without a seatbelt at Greenfield Avenue and Moorland Road in Brookfield on Monday, according to a criminal complaint.
Ray A. Pousha, 52, was charged Tuesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with operating while intoxicated-seventh offense and operating with a prohibited alcohol concentration-seventh offense. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and $25,000 in fines.
Pousha was released from the Waukesha County Jail on Wednesday after paying $1,000 bail.
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According to the complaint:
A Brookfield police officer pulled Pousha over for the seatbelt violation at 5:57 p.m. Monday. Pousha was unable to state why he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. He told the officer he was going to the grocery and had consumed one beer Monday.
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Pousha’s preliminary breath test showed he had a .022 percent blood alcohol concentration. The legal limit in Wisconsin is .08 for most people, but after three operating while intoxicated convictions the limit is .02 percent.
Pousha previously has been convicted of drunken driving in 1990, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2002 and 2007.
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