MERRILL, Wis. (WSAW) – An 80-year-old Grafton man is charged with multiple felonies after authorities say a sheriff’s lieutenant had to deliberately hit the suspect’s vehicle to stop a wrong-way driver on U.S. Highway 51.
Rory Hofmann is charged with four counts, including first-degree recklessly endangering safety, second-offense operating while intoxicated causing injury, and fleeing an officer. He was formally charged Monday.
The incident happened around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, when Lincoln County 911 dispatchers received numerous calls reporting a vehicle swerving and traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of U.S. 51 from Oneida County into Lincoln County…