Cheryl Mitchell (Brown Co. Jail)
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Cheryl Mitchell was charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle for the Thanksgiving Day crash which killed one person and injured two others. She told police she had three glasses of wine in the hours before the wrong-way crash on I-43.
Mitchell, 67, of Pound, made an initial court appearance Monday, where a $150,000 cash bond was set, jail records show. She also faces two counts of injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle. She returns to court Dec. 9 for a preliminary hearing.
According to the criminal complaint, emergency crews responded to the two-vehicle crash on I-43 near the ramp with State 96 in New Denmark shortly after 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving.
Mitchell told police she was travelling from Denmark to Pound.
“Cheryl stated she drank some wine at her nieces. I asked Cheryl if she remembered how much wine she drank. Cheryl stated she maybe had three glasses,” the complaint states. “Cheryl stated she had 3 glasses of red wine and started drinking around 12:00 pm and stopped at 4:00 pm.”
After being taken to a hospital, she declined to perform a field sobriety test, but a blood draw was taken. No results are cited in the complaint.
“At this time, based on the totality of the circumstances, the odor of intoxicants coming from Cheryl’s vehicle, breath, her slurred slow speech and lack of balance, I believed Cheryl was under the influence of intoxicants,” the complaint states.
The driver of the vehicle Mitchell hit told police “he was going southbound on I-43 and was going to exit but was struck head-on by the other vehicle,” according to the complaint.
The vehicle Mitchell struck injured a husband and wife, and killed their son, who died on Saturday, two days after the crash.
Mitchell was convicted of OWI in Kewaunee County in 1989, the complaint states.
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