Sussex Woman Charged with Second OWI

A 21-year-old Sussex woman is facing her second operating while intoxicated charge after she was arrested at a Waukesha gas station Sunday night.

Amanda M. Hake was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Tuesday with second offense OWI after an officer at Stop-N-Go, 910 W. St. Paul Ave., noticed her and a male partner at the station extremely intoxicated. If convicted, she faces up to six months in prison and $1,100 in fines.

According to the criminal complaint, at 10:14 p.m. Sunday, the officer pulled into the gas station and noticed the man with Hake enter the store extremely intoxicated, and later come out and head toward a car parked across two parking spots and pushed up against the curb.

The complaint states the man got into the passenger seat and the officer became concerned he was going to drive, so he went to the car. The man told the officer he hadn’t driven to the gas station and a clerk working at the gas station told the cop there was a female who was also intoxicated inside.

The officer also noticed an open bottle of rum in the back seat of the vehicle, the complaint states, which the man told the officer he had been drinking from.

The complaint states Henke had a blood alcohol level of 0.12 at the time of her arrest. She was previously convicted of an OWI charge in December 2009.