Alison Dirr

USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin

APPLETON - A Fond du Lac man was arrested Sunday evening on suspicion of 11th-offense drunken driving, according to police.

Steve A. Johnson, 52, was arrested in the incident and is being held in the Outagamie County Jail, the Appleton Police Department said in a news release Monday. A woman was also cited on suspicion of second-offense drunken driving, unsafe backing and driving after revocation. She was released to a family member.

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Sunday marked the first day that tougher drunken driving penalties went into effect in Wisconsin. The measure includes raising the maximum penalty for 10th or subsequent drunken driving offenses to a decade in the prison system from 7 1/2 years.

Police were called about 8 p.m. on Sunday to a possible hit and run in the 100 block of South State Street. The caller said that a truck had backed into another vehicle and left, according to the news release. Before officers arrived, the truck returned and parked in the same spot it had left from. Several bystanders stopped the 30-year-old driver when she tried to leave the area on foot, according to police.

As officers were speaking with her, another person told police that someone was trying to leave in the truck the woman had been driving. Officers tried to flag down the truck as it drove past them but the driver, Johnson, kept going.

An officer stopped the truck near the 500 block of South State Street.

Johnson had a valid driver's license at the time of the incident.

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