Janesville, WI - 20 Yr. Old Drunk Tries To Getaway In Rock Co. Sheriff's Office Squad Car - Arrested Behind The Wheel
Drunk man tries to make getaway in squad
car
Gazette Xtra
Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009
JANESVILLE — A man whose blood alcohol level was more than five times the
legal definition of intoxication apparently tried to make a getaway attempt in a
squad car Aug. 7, according to a report from the Rock County Sheriff’s Office.
He was one of 10 people cited for underage drinking outside a home in the 9400
block of West Mineral Point Road, Center Township.
Deputies responded at 11:22 p.m. to an anonymous complaint and found 30 to 40
cars parked outside, the report says. Several vehicles were leaving the scene
when deputies arrived. The house was dark and no one would come out, the report
says.
As a deputy peered inside, a 20-year-old Janesville man walked out of a
cornfield, the report says. The man admitted he’d been drinking, and deputies
put him in the back seat of a squad car.
A few minutes later, Deputy Matthew Jacobson heard the squad car’s alarm
going off and saw the 20-year-old man in the driver’s seat. When asked where he
was going, the man said he wanted to go back with his friends. He was cited for
obstructing a police officer, handcuffed and put in the back seat.
The man submitted to a breath test and blew a 0.41, more than five times the
level considered intoxicated, the report says. Jacobson thought the result might
be a mistake, so he had the man take another test with a different
breath-testing machine, resulting in a 0.38 reading.
He was issued a citation for underage drinking, second offense, and his mother
picked him up from the jail, the report says. Jacobson advised the mother to
watch the man and suggested she take him to Mercy Hospital, but the man was not
seen at the hospital, a spokeswoman there said.
When contacted Friday, the man said he wasn’t sure how much he drank that night
but estimated “a couple of cups” of beer. He said he thinks the breath tests
were inaccurate.
He denied making an escape attempt but admitted he didn’t remember everything
that happened that night.
Nine other people were cited for underage drinking during the incident,
including seven who were discovered in two vehicles driving away from the party,
one who was in the driveway and one a deputy discovered passed out in a ditch
across the street, the report says.