Judge sets trial for Green Bay man charged with 18th OWI
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Monday, February 1, 2021
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - A judge says the case of a 74-year-old Green Bay man charged with his 18th drunken driving offense will go to trial.
Wallace Bowers was arrested last month after a crash that took out power lines and caused an outage. He faces 15 years in prison if convicted, WLUK-TV reported.
Bowers had 17 prior operating while intoxicated convictions between 1988 and 2011, but had a valid license to drive at the time of last month’s accident. A law that went into effect in 2018 requires driver’s licenses to be revoked after a 4th OWI conviction.