Driver jailed for hitting bike cops

A driver who plowed into three Milwaukee police bicycle officers in September was sentenced Friday to 2 1/2 years in jail, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Gaudencio Ruiz-Ramirez, 25, pleaded guilty last month to three counts of drunken driving causing injury, and one count of hit and run involving injury in connection with the September 9 crash.

According to the criminal complaint, Ruiz-Ramirez was westbound in the 1100 block of W. Lincoln Avenue where four officers were bicycling when he struck three of them and kept driving. All the officers suffered non-life threatening injuries and are now in physical therapy.

Ruiz-Ramirez was arrested a short time later. He will serve his sentence at the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility-South without work release privileges. Circuit Judge J.D. Watts also ordered him to pay $600 in fines.