Man in Tavern Faces More Charges

By Dan Benson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Aug. 19–PORT WASHINGTON — A Waubeka man is facing two new felony bail-jumping charges after an Ozaukee County sheriff’s deputy found him sitting at a bar, nursing a drink Aug. 8, one week after posting $10,000 bail on another bail-jumping charge related to his fifth drunken-driving charge.

According to a criminal complaint, the deputy entered Glory Days Bar & Grill in Waubeka on Wednesday and saw Roger A. Wach, 62, with whom the deputy was familiar, sitting at the bar.

“In front of him was a highball glass containing ice and a clear liquid with a stir stick in it,” the complaint says. Wach told the deputy the glass contained 7Up and vodka.

A preliminary breath test showed Wach had a blood-alcohol level of 0.07, the complaint says.

Wach posted $10,000 cash bail Aug. 1 on a felony bail-jumping charge of failure to appear in court last September on his fifth drunken-driving charge.

A condition of both the drunken-driving charge and the bail-jumping charge was that he maintain absolute sobriety, resulting in two new bail-jumping charges for which Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Tom R. Wolfgram set bail at $20,000.

Each bail-jumping charge carries a maximum penalty of six years in prison.

Wach remained in custody Thursday at the Ozaukee County Jail.

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