Woman awaiting trial for fifth DWI charged with more felonies

A 57-year-old woman who is awaiting trial on a fifth-offense drunken driving charge and whose driver’s license is suspended now faces additional felony charges after being caught driving through Grafton last week.

Grafton resident Angela A. Vey was charged Monday in Ozaukee County Circuit Court with two counts of felony bail jumping and a misdemeanor charge of driving without a license.

As of Monday, she was being held in the county jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.

According to a criminal compliant, Vey was arrested shortly after noon on Friday, June 14, when a sheriff’s deputy ran the license plate of a vehicle on 13th Avenue near Washington Street and learned the registration was suspended.

When the deputy tried to pull the vehicle over, it continued north until pulling into a driveway on 13th Avenue.

That’s when the officer learned Vey was the driver and her license had been revoked. In addition, Vey was free in lieu of $6,000 bail in connection with the pending drunken driving case. A condition of her release was that she not drive without a license.

The fifth-offense drunken driving case dates to Jan. 4, 2024, when at 9:07 p.m. a deputy saw her drift from the right lane into the left lane, then back onto the right shoulder of Highway 57 in the Town of Saukville, according to the complaint in that case.

The deputy pulled Vey over and said her car smelled of alcohol and her eyes were bloodshot and glassy.

Vey, who was living in the Town of Port Washington at the time, told the deputy she was coming from work. When asked how much she had to drink, Vey replied, “not much,” then said she had one shot of vodka, according to the criminal complaint.

Vey refused to consent to a blood test, but the deputy obtained a warrant and a test was conducted. It revealed she had a blood alcohol level of .258. The legal alcohol limit is .08, although it was .02 for Vey because of her prior operating while intoxicated convictions, the complaint states.

According to court records, Vey was convicted of operating while intoxicated four times between 1997 and 2013, when she was sentenced to six months in jail for fourth-offense drunken driving.

Fifth-offense drunken driving is a felony punishable by a maximum five years in prison and five years of extended supervision.