Crime & Safety

Nature Calls During OWI Sobriety Test

Waukesha woman faces a felony drunken driving charge after speeding on Highway 83, according to a criminal complaint.

A Waukesha woman, who is charged with her fifth drunken driving offense, told a deputy she didn’t want to complete her field sobriety tests because she had to use the bathroom, according to a criminal complaint filed n Waukesha County Circuit Court.

Kelly J. Pierson, 45, was instead arrested on two charges – felony drunken driving and operating while revoked. Her blood alcohol concentration level was .17 percent at the time of her arrest, according to a criminal complaint.

Pierson was released from the Waukesha County Jail on Monday on $2,000 bail, online court records show.

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A Waukesha County sheriff’s deputy pulled Pierson over on Friday after she was traveling 50 mph in a 25 mph speed zone on Highway 83 in the Town of Genesee, according to the complaint. She handed the deputy a driver’s license that expired in 2010 and told him she was unfamiliar with the area.

The deputy reported that Pierson smelled like intoxicants, had slow and slurred speech and that her eyes were red and glassy. She admitted to consuming four drinks at a bar in Waukesha and that she was driving to another bar with her friend, according to the complaint.

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Pierson lost her balance and was stumbling as she was asked to get out of the car for the field sobriety tests. She stumbled her way through the beginning of the test and eventually was asked to walk for the deputy. She put one foot down and then told the deputy “I can’t do this,” the complaint states.

“I have to poop,” Pierson told the deputy when he asked her why she couldn’t finish the test, the complaint states.

Pierson was glad she was stopped from driving, she told the deputy, because she may have gone to another bar, consumed more alcohol and if she had driven later, they may have died or she could have killed someone, the complaint states.

Pierson previously was convicted of drunken driving in 1989, 1992, 2001 and 2004.


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