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Tuesday, February 04, 2025

UW police arrest man on Langdon Street for fifth drunk driving offense

Police arrested a Sun Prairie man on Langdon Street for his fifth drunk driving offense early Friday morning, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department news release.

According to the release, a UWPD sergeant stopped a vehicle that did not have its headlights on at 1:28 a.m.

The release also said all three of the vehicle’s passengers were intoxicated and had previous convictions for operating while intoxicated. During the encounter, one of the vehicle’s passengers vomited on himself and another urinated on himself.

After the vehicle’s driver, 26-year-old Karl Moreth, failed a field sobriety test, the news release said the sergeant arrested him for his fifth offense of operating a vehicle while intoxicated .

Moreth also faces charges for operating a vehicle after license revocation and without working lights, according to the news release.

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