Accused drunk driver passes out near police station, mistaking it for hotel, cops say
A Wisconsin man was arrested on a drunk driving charge after he mistook a police station for a hotel, according to police.
Officers with the Marshfield Police Department noticed a Toyota SUV parked halfway into a parking space outside the station about 2:30 am. on Jan. 4, a police report said.
The vehicle was still running and as officers approached, they could see the driver was hunched over behind the wheel, police said. He woke up when officers knocked on the glass, but he had a hard time rolling the window down to speak with them, police said.
Officers said there were empty cans of beer “scattered throughout” the man’s SUV and “a strong odor of intoxicants coming from his breath.”
He told officers he thought the police station was the hotel where he was staying, police said.
The officers tried to conduct a field sobriety test, but the man was too intoxicated to do several of the tests, police said. He also blew a .265 on a breath test, according to police, which is well above the legal blood alcohol limit of .08.
He was arrested on a charge of operating while intoxicated, police said, adding that it was the man’s fourth OWI.
Marshfield is about 130 miles west of Green Bay.
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