Leonard J. Litt

WAUKESHA - A town of Waukesha man reportedly told police he thought he was ramming his truck into a vehicle driven by his father - and not a stranger on her way to work - in an alleged incident at about 4 a.m. Wednesday where he reportedly later hid for hours in a tree and registered a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit.

Leonard J. Litt, 30, was charged with first-degree reckless endangerment and hit and run Friday in Waukesha County Circuit Court, and was unable to post the $20,000 bail Court Commissioner Martin Binn imposed in the incident he called "shocking and appalling." Litt was also given a municipal citation by the Waukesha Police Department for his first operating while intoxicated arrest.

According to the criminal complaint, a town of Waukesha woman left her Merrill Hills Road house at about 4 a.m. to go to work when she soon noticed in her rearview mirror that a car was traveling at a high rate of speed toward her. The woman told police that the driver, who was later allegedly identified as Litt, drove through a stop sign at an intersection and passed her before coming to an abrupt stop.

The truck allegedly driven by Litt then began to back up toward the victim, who in turn drove in reverse in an attempt to create a distance between herself and the other vehicle, the complaint stated. 

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