The Brief
- Caraya Carter is accused of OWI and child neglect in Milwaukee.
- She allegedly crashed her SUV into a police squad car while drunk.
- A 4-year-old child was a passenger in her vehicle, and the officer was injured.
MILWAUKEE – A 26-year-old Milwaukee woman is accused of driving drunk with a 4-year-old child in her SUV, and then crashing into a police squad. The accused is Caraya Carter – and she faces the following criminal counts:
- Operating while intoxicated causing injury
- Neglecting a child
Crash involving Milwaukee police squad
What we know:
According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee police were dispatched on Saturday, Oct. 4 to a vehicle crash at 14th and Greenfield on the city’s south side. When officers arrived on the scene, they found an SUV and a Milwaukee police squad, both with severe damage. The SUV had front-end damage. The squad had significant damage to its side, with airbags deployed.
The defendant was the driver of the SUV and “admitted she had been operating the Trailblazer” with a 4-year-old child as a passenger, the complaint says. When asked about the crash, “Carter stated she had trouble remembering what happened,” the complaint says. An officer asked if she had hit her head. Carter responded, “I have been intoxicated a lot of times going home,” the complaint says. When the officer asked if she was intoxicated at that moment, the complaint says she replied, “I believe so.”…