Man sentenced for driving drunk with kids in van
Man nabbed after picking up children at Park Lawn school
Waukesha - A 52-year-old City of Oconomowoc man was sentenced to 250 days in jail for drunken driving after he picked up his children at their school last year.
Ross A. Butterfield of 971 Silver Lake St., entered a guilty plea Jan. 13 in Waukesha County Circuit Court before being sentenced on a felony count of third-offense drunken driving with a child in the vehicle. Butterfield will be serving his sentence in the work-release jail.
According to the criminal complaint, on May 18 an employee of Park Lawn Elementary School told police Butterfield came to pick up his two children, ages 6 and 8, and he was late for the second time. The employee said Butterfield arrived without wearing his glasses and he smelled of alcohol.
A secretary at the school saw Butterfield stumble out of the vehicle and two teachers told police they could smell alcohol coming from him.
Police went to Silver Lake Street and saw a Dodge minivan drive into the driveway at Butterfield's residence. Police approached the van and saw two children in the van. When Butterfield got out of the van he stumbled and when he attempted to close the van's sliding door after the children got out, he "staggered and his hand slipped on the door," the complaint said.
Police asked Butterfield if he had been drinking and he said he had some "coconut juice," the complaint said. He later admitted to having two pina coladas, the complaint said.
Butterfield failed a field sobriety test and a preliminary breath test showed he had an alcohol content of 0.15. The legal limit for adult drivers in Wisconsin is 0.08.
Butterfield was convicted of drunken driving in September 1998 and May 2001.
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