Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Wisconsin State Patrol spotted a vehicle that appeared to have been in an accident early Wednesday morning.
Editor's note: This article was updated at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday with more information about charges being filed. A 50-year-old West Allis man was arrested for his 13th drunken driving offense early Wednesday morning on Interstate 94 just east of Moorland Road. Kim F. Liebrecht was charged Wednesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with his 13th operating while intoxicated offense. If convicted, he faces up to 7.5 years in prison. Liebrecht had a valid driver’s license at the time of his arrest. His last offense was in 2006 and his driver’s license was revoked for 3-1/2 years when he was also sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison. Liebrecht remains jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail. According to the complaint: The trooper was on westbound …
Sunday, February 24, 2013
After nearly hitting oncoming squad car, driver flees and tries to escape into apartment garage. But pursuing officer slips in behind, and then finds his hands full.
A suspected drunken driver nearly collided head-on with a Brookfield patrol officer, fled at high speed, managed to shut himself and the lone officer up in an apartment parking garage, and continued to fight back after he was shot twice with a Taser – all to avoid a first-offense drunken driving ticket. According to the officer's report: At 1:46 a.m. Feb. 16, the 43-year-old man, who was identified as being from West Allis but had access to a Brookfield apartment, was arrested for first-offense operating while intoxicated, failure to stop for a stop sign and resisting arrest. The patrol officer was driving west on Blue Mound Road when an oncoming car swerved across the center line right in front of him. The officer had to hit his brakes …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Two of three men are suspected second-time offenders, and one is so far over the limit he can't stay upright – but that didn't stop him from driving.
Two of three people arrested by Brookfield police for drunken driving are facing charges of a second offense, and one of those drivers had a blood alcohol concentration of .26, 3½ times the proscribed limit. According to police reports: At 8:06 p.m. Feb. 8, a 55-year-old New Berlin man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after police were called to Outback Steakhouse, 1260 S. Moorland Rd., about a highly intoxicated customer who had tried to get in his car to leave. Restaurant taff begging him not to drive, but before police could arrive, he did get in his car and drive off. Officers spotted him on West Greenfield Avenue, caught up and pulled him over near Davidson Road. Besides the evidence of numerous frantic …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Citizen calls in one suspected drunken driver and a patrol officer spots another, both driving erratically and dangerously on busy thoroughfares.
A 54-year-old Wauwatosa woman was arrested at 9:55 p.m. Feb. 2 on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after a Brookfield police patrol officer saw her driving erratically and dangerously and pulled her over. The officer was driving southbound on North 124th Street near West Burleigh Street when he noticed the woman weaving. He got behind her and saw her almost strike a curb and then veer back over the center line. When he had noted that she kept varying her speed for no apparent reason and then crossed the center line again, he stopped her. The officer said he immediately noticed a strong odor alcohol when he spoke to the driver. But when he asked if she'd been drinking, she said she was coming home from a dinner date and had …
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Caller spots Milwaukee man driving erratically and reports him
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Officer sees Wauwatosa woman weaving down 124th
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
For three women stopped and cited for operating while intoxicated, one is now on her third offense and the others on their second.
Three women arrested recently by Brookfield police on suspicion of drunken driving were all cited for their second or third offenses. At 10:33 p.m. Jan. 26, a 28-year-old Eden woman was arrested for drunken driving, third offense, after a caller reported a vehicle stopped and running in the middle of the road near Tremont and Edwards streets. The caller said the SUV was not running and didn’t appear to be occupied. But it was. Police found the woman slumped over the center console and passed out. An officer tried to get attention from outside but couldn't rouse her. He opened her door and still couldn't wake her by shouting, but she finally responded to a shake. He asked why she was in the middle of the road, and she said she wasn’t – she…
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Hartland man charged with felony after driving the wrong way on Capitol Drive in Brookfield.
A Menomonee Falls police officer returning from the Waukesha County Jail Friday night prevented a possible tragedy when he pulled over a wrong-way driver in Brookfield on Capitol Drive. The driver, 48-year-old Daniel M. Goepel, of Hartland, is charged with his fifth drunken driving offense after being arrested by a Brookfield police officer. He faces up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted of the charge. According to a criminal complaint: The Menomonee Falls police officer was traveling eastbound on Capitol Drive when he saw a vehicle leave a strip mall, turn left onto Capitol Drive and travel west in the eastbound lane. The officer activated his emergency lights as the vehicle came near him. The vehicle pulled over and…
Monday, January 28, 2013
She has to subdued by police after ranting and cursing and then threatening them after she hits a parked car with her kids on board. Soon after, another driver gets his third OWI arrest.
Two drivers arrested just about an hour and a half apart Friday on suspicion of drunken driving presented just about opposite reactions to their situations. A suspected third-time offender was cooperative and more or less honest with police, admitted having been at a bar and drinking, and took his troubles in reasonably good grace. But a Brookfield woman getting her first ticket for OWI showed considerably less control and no cooperation whatsoever, despite having her two children in the car. According to the police reports: At 9:25 p.m. Friday, a caller reported to Brookfield police that someone had just hit a parked car on her street, in the 900 block of Weston Hills Drive, and an officer was sent to investigate. When he arrived, a 39-…
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
In four arrests, two drivers are unconscious behind the wheel; two are three or more times over the .08 alcohol limit, and one is driving far, far about the speed limit.
Brookfield police reported the recent arrests of four suspected drunken drivers, including one who tipped the scales at three times the proscribed blood-alcohol limit to drive in Wisconsin – in the middle of the afternoon. According to their reports: At 3:43 p.m. Wednesday, a 55-year-old Whitefish Bay man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after police were dispatched to aid in an ambulance call at Betsy Ross Court and Independence Drive. The driver had been reported unconscious at the wheel of his stalled, locked car and was thought to have had a medical emergency. Police officers arrived to find a group of concerned people standing around the vehicle and school buses rolling through the neighborhood. The driver …
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Driving down the main drag on two flat tires, a Brookfield man calls himself to the attention of a patrol officer who finds he wasn't fit to be driving at all.
At 1:42 a.m. Jan. 6, a 38-year-old Brookfield man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, first offense, after a patrol officer spotted him on Blue Mound Road driving on two flat rear tires. The officer pulled him over in the parking lot of Great Midwest Bank, 15900 Blue Mound Rd., and noted immediately that the man smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech. The driver told the officer he was coming from the New Berlin Ale House and admitted having had “a little” to drink. When the officer asked him how both his rear tires came to be flat, he said, “They both just popped.” He failed field sobriety tests and blew a .13 blood alcohol concentration on an evidentiary breath test. In other recent incidents: Jan. 6 A Brookfield man …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Suspect was charged with his fifth offense drunken drunk driving and possession of marijuana.
A Hales Corners man drove drunk in front of a Brookfield police officer early Monday morning, charges allege. Joseph C. Chojnacki, 32, was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Monday with one count of fifth offense operating while intoxicated, one count of possession of drug paraphernalia and one count of possession of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. If convicted, he faces up to 4 1/2 years in prison and $20,000 in fines. According to the criminal complaint: At 2:20 a.m. Monday, a Brookfield police officer spotted Chojnacki driving eastbound on Capitol Drive near 165th Street, traveling 55 miles per hour in a 45-mph speed zone. The officer began to follow Chojnacki, who at one point slowed down to 37 mph, then sped up again. …
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5:44 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013
The 90s were not a good decade for this guy but it seems like he almost got it figured out in the 2000s...I wonder what sent him back over the cliff? Time to figure it out dude, before you kill someone. more ›