Husband, Wife Arrested for Drunk Driving Blocks From Their House

An apparent night out became a rough night for a Greenfield husband and wife.

According to the Greenfield Police Department, at approximately 9:05 p.m. Tuesday, police officers pulled over a 55-year-old Greenfield woman for apparent drunk driving near the intersection of 43rd Street and Edgerton Avenue.

While the officers performed field sobriety tests on the woman, a man driving a truck circled the area repeatedly. Moments later, after police took the woman into custody for OWI, the man, who parked his car north of Edgerton on 41st Street, approached the officers on foot.

That turned out to be a bad move.

The man, a 55-year-old from Greenfield and the woman’s husband, was also intoxicated and arrested for OWI, less than 10 minutes after his wife was handcuffed and put in the back of the patrol car.

The arrests occurred approximately seven blocks from the couple’s home.

The OWIs were the first for either member of the drunk-driving tandem. They were booked, cited and released to a sober adult, and both vehicles were towed at their expense.