WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — A Wausau man faces more than 30 years in prison after his 10th OWI offense, this time with his infant son in the car.
51-year-old Joseph Grulkowski avoided crashing his pickup truck into another car Sunday but ran it into a soybean field off County Highway M in Marathon County. Officers found his blood alcohol content at .17, but he claimed he only had one beer and he was sleep-deprived from his 18-month-old son’s sleep pattern.
Grulkowski’s wife came to the scene and recovered the boy, while Grulkowski himself was booked with his 10th OWI charge and recieved a $50,000 cash bond Monday. He faces a possible 31 years in prison for the number of OWI offenses and having the child in the car.