A veteran of the City of Waukesha Police Department quit after he was arrested for driving drunk and knocking down a light pole with his Jeep. The Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office hired him in March.
Steven Guth, a 21-year veteran of the Waukesha Police Department, resigned in 2023 shortly after he knocked down a light pole with his Jeep and got arrested for a first-offense OWI in western Wisconsin. After a year away from law enforcement, Guth now works as a patrol deputy for the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office.
Guth “clearly possessed the knowledge that operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated was wrong and obviously presented a danger to himself and the public,” Waukesha Police Department Lt. Scott Christensen wrote in an internal investigation obtained by The Badger Project via a records request. “These are laws that he himself as a patrol officer has enforced on many occasions.”
The internal investigation recommended Guth be terminated, and he later opted to resign in 2023, officially separating from the department in January 2024.
Guth spent his last nine years at the department as a detective in the sensitive crimes unit investigating sexual assaults against minors, said James Gumm, an inspector for the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office. Guth also worked as a school resource officer…