Wisconsin State Patrol officials say a 38-year-old man was arrested on his sixth driving-while-intoxicated charge after he struck a tractor pulling a hay wagon that was carrying several passengers, WCCO reports.
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The driver is being held on suspicion of criminal vehicular homicide.
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A 5-year-old boy knocked on a stranger's door and told the person his dad was just driving around, pulling over in random places, and refusing to take him and his sister home after picking them from day care. Police arrested the man for driving while intoxicated and refusing a breathalyzer test.
Police believe a man who drove into the back of a St. Cloud school bus carrying kids was intoxicated. They arrested the 72-year-old man after he rear-ended the bus that stopped to let kids off. No one was seriously injured.
Same old, same old. Gilbert Ricardo Garcia was stopped by Bloomington police Sunday who found him with a blood-alcohol content twice the legal limit and eleven previous charges for DWI.
Wisconsin State Patrol arrested a 14-year-old boy near Bayfield over the weekend. Officials say the boy was driving an intoxicated adult home at the time. Later tests revealed the teen himself was high on marijuana.
A Fergus Falls man was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for a felony DWI conviction. Richard Papenfuss, 62, has over 20 DWI arrests on his record and has already served prison time for a previous DWI. In the Twin Cities, a Plymouth woman was arrested Thursday morning for probable cause DWI. She had already served prison time for hitting a killing a man in 2010.
WCCO reports bars and restaurants are upset with police pulling over customers and staff. The owners claim the increased patrols are hurting their business. The city council asked the police department to conduct an internal investigation.
Minneapolis police on Wednesday arrested former Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher's son, Kyle Fletcher, 23, who suspected of driving while intoxicated. Bob Fletcher famously had his son arrested twice when he was struggling with heroin and cocaine addictions.
The annual late-summer enforcement campaign is yielding fewer drunken-driving arrests this year and the number of fatal crashes involving alcohol is continuing a five-year decline, state officials say. Over the past two weekends, 605 drunken drivers were arrested as part of a statewide DWI enforcement campaign. During a similar summer's-end crackdown last year, there were 1,787 arrests over three weekends culminating on Labor Day.