DUI driver released, caught same night cooking pizza on car vent, police say

Friday, May 8, 2015
STURTEVANT, Wis. -- Police deal with drunk drivers all the time. But this is a case with a twist.

Officers in Racine County, Wisconsin, say they arrested a 25-year-old driver Saturday in Sturtevant driving westbound on Durand Ave, swerving into oncoming lanes of traffic.
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Later that night, police say, 15 minutes after the driver was released from jail into the care of a sober driver, he got another DUI violation. Police say they found him inside his car warming up a pizza on the dashboard.

The pizza was situated over the heat vents.

Police tested him and say he failed an alcohol test. So they re-arrested him - probably before he had a chance to eat that pizza.

Police say the man already had one DUI on his record - these are his second and third arrests.
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