Crime & Safety

When 'Not Enough' Is Too Much to Be Driving On

Pewaukee woman talks faster than she can think, and it's little wonder with the cocktail of illegal substances she admits she's been imbibing before driving.

A Pewaukee woman showed a little confusion about how much she'd had to drink after a traffic stop April 28, suggesting that however much it was, it was "not enough."

Later, she admitted she had more than one reason for her difficulties.

At 2:52 a.m., the woman, 55, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after a traffic stop at West Capitol Drive and North Brookfield Road.

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A patrol officer going west on Capitol Drive at Calhoun Road saw her speeding toward him, turned around and paced her. He said she was going about 10 mph over the limit and was also changing lanes repeatedly, without signaling and for no apparent reason.

When he pulled her over and walked up to her car, he first noted that she was speaking "extremely fast." She said she was coming home from a party in Milwaukee and kept repeating that Michael Jackson was dead and she was out to have a good time.

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The officer smelled alcohol on her breath, and when he asked her how much she'd had to drink, she exclaimed, "Not enough!" He asked her to explain what "not enough" meant, and she said, "Oh, I meant 'Not much.'" He asked her again, for the record, how much she'd had, and again she blurted, "Not enough!"

She also volunteered the information that she'd been smoking marijuana and doing cocaine – which, police said, may have explained her accelerated speech.

She failed field sobriety tests, and because of her admission to using drugs as well as alcohol, was asked to give a blood sample instead of a breath test, which would not have detected whether or how much drugs influenced her impairment. She agreed to a voluntary blood draw.


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