On February 20^th, 2013, Milwaukee County Deputy Joseph Quiles, with the airport division of the Sheriff’s Office, was working night shift by General Mitchell International Aiport. After making his rounds patrolling, he blew through a stop sign on to Howell Avenue, and t-boned a Camry, sending it spinning and crashing into a tree.

The driver, 25-year-old Tanya Weyker wound up with a broken neck in four places, nearly paralyzing her, and was placed under five separate charges including drunk driving .

She wasn’t drunk.

“It was a miracle I wasn’t paralyzed.” Weyker told a Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Deputy.

Weyker was injured so badly in the accident that she couldn’t even blow into a breathalyzer or perform sobriety tests.  For over a year, the DWI charges lingered over Weyker, despite blood tests proving she was sober.

As the ambulance was treating her neck injuries, she was questioned by officers.

“One asked if I had anything to drink that night,” Weyker told WITI, “And I told them a few sips from a friend’s drink.”

In his official police report, Quilles wrote that he had stopped at the stop sign and checked both ways before proceeding, mentioning to a Milwaukee police officer that he didn’t see any coming headlights, despite Wekyer’s Camry having automatic lights.

The report is contradictory to the video via a nearby surveillance camera: Quilles’s squad car turned before making a complete stop.

While at the hospital, blood samples were taken from Weyker by doctors; tests later proved that there was no alcohol in her system. Yet despite this, months passed before the charges against Wyeker were dropped by the district attorney.

Wekyer has filed a complaint against the deputy, which could lead to a lawsuit against the county; she is still waiting for the state to pay her medical bills since the crash.

Quilles is waiting on a permanent duty disability claim.

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