A repeat drunk driver was picked up on his seventh drunk driving charge late Wednesday, and this time authorities say his alcohol level was nearly four times the legal limit.
Dennis Alich, 57, of Colerain Township, Ohio, registered .309 on a test to measure his intoxication level, a traffic ticket shows. Ohio’s legal limit for driving is .08.
He also had an open container of alcohol in his 1991 Pontiac Grand Am when a Hamilton County sheriff’s deputy pulled him over just before 5:30 p.m. at U.S. 27 and Dry Ridge Road in Colerain Township, records state.
Alich remains at the Hamilton County jail Thursday under $50,000 bond. He faces several charges, including operating a motor vehicle while extremely intoxicated and driving under a suspended license for a previous drunk driving conviction.
The drunken driving arrest is Alich’s seventh since 1991, and is a felony. Court records show that Alich has been convicted of six previous drunk driving offenses, two in Indiana and four in Ohio, between August 1991 and July 2004. Alich served a three-month jail on the last conviction and was released in December 2005.
