Authorities say a 54-year-old man who has had his driver’s license pulled a half-dozen times and been caught driving drunk four times got behind the wheel while intoxicated this weekend and turned into the path of another motorist at a rural intersection, leaving his victim hospitalized with severe injuries.
Brian R. Krautbauer, who was on probation for a recent drunken-driving conviction, was charged Tuesday in Wright County District Court with criminal vehicular operation in the Saturday night collision of his pickup with a minivan on Wright County Road 39 at Aetna Avenue NE in Monticello Township, about a mile from his home.