Crime & Safety

Man Drives Drunk With Toddler in Car, Police Say

Ronald E. Doern, 64, is accused of driving with a .29 percent blood alcohol concentration after being pulled over by the Waukesha Police Department.

A 64-year-old Waukesha man is accused of driving with a .29 percent blood alcohol concentration with his 2-year-old grandson in the vehicle, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Waukesha County Circuit Court.

Ronald E. Doern was charged with felony drunken driving. If convicted, he faces between 120 days and two years in jail and $1,200 in fines. He remains jailed in lieu of $2,500 bail.

Doern was pulled over at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday near Highway 164 and East Broadway after a police officer noticed the vehicle he was driving accelerate through a yellow light and saw a beer can being thrown out the passenger window, according to a criminal complaint.

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Doern’s 2-year-old grandson was in a child’s seat in the vehicle, the complaint states.

Doern twice attempted to leave the vehicle while being stopped by police. He admitted to the officer he threw a beer can out the window that he had just purchased from a store on West Sunset Drive, according to the complaint.

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Doern failed his field sobriety test and provided a “very poor sample of breath” that indicated he had a .29 percent blood alcohol concentration, the complaint states. Waukesha police have shipped some of Doern’s blood for further analysis to the Wisconsin State Crime Lab.

Doern’s previous convictions were from December 1990, April 1991 and July 1991, the complaint states.


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