GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A woman whose blood alcohol level was triple the legal limit when she crashed her SUV – with three kids inside – has been convicted.
Monica Mencheski, 32, will be sentenced October 3rd after pleading no contest Monday to recklessly endangering safety, and drunk driving with a minor passenger, court records show. Several other counts were dismissed.
The criminal complaint says:
Officers responded to a home on Cormier Road in Ashwaubenon May 10 for a vehicle which was stuck on a large rock in the middle of a landscaping area. Police discovered the vehicle left the roadway, drove between two houses, struck a tree, continued through a yard, and struck a utility pole before becoming wedged on the rock.
The driver, Mencheski, couldn’t provide police with the names or ages of the three children in the vehicle. Police later said the children are ages 5, 2 and 3 months.
When asked to perform the field sobriety tests, she responded with, “I am too fat and wobbly to do this”, “I am too drunk”, and “not gonna lie I’m drunk,” the complaint states.
A preliminary breath test showed a blood-alcohol level of .240 – three times the legal limit. The results of a blood test were not cited in the complaint.
Mencheski has three previous drunk driving convictions.
