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Updated: March 31, 2023 @ 10:05 pm
The driver of a vehicle that crashed into a ditch last November in the town of Stanley had a blood alcohol level between two and three times the state’s legal threshold of intoxication, according to a complaint filed Friday, March 10, 2023, in Barron County Circuit Court.
The defendant is identified as Katherine Jeanne Gitzen, 38, 927A 24 7/8 St., rural Chetek. Court records said the defendant is due for an initial appearance today, March 15, 2023.
The complaint said two Cameron police officers responded to a report of a late model Chevy Impala that had backed up into a ditch near U.S. Hwy. 8 and 23rd St., east of the village of Cameron, on the evening of Nov. 17, 2022.
A witness told one of the officers that the Impala had pulled out in front of him near Cameron and was swerving in its traffic lane as it drove through the village. The witness followed the vehicle east of town and saw it back up into the ditch.
The driver of the vehicle, later identified as the defendant, smelled of alcohol and failed a field sobriety test. She was arrested. A blood sample taken that day was examined by the Wisconsin State Hygiene Lab. On Jan. 20, 2023, the lab reported that the sample had a blood alcohol content of .304. The state of Wisconsin’s legal limit of intoxication is a .08 blood alcohol reading.
Court records showed Gitzen had two prior drunk driving convictions dating back to 2009.
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