Legislator arrested for OWI, pot possession

Dec. 15, 2008 9:48 a.m. Madison - A Wisconsin lawmaker has been released from jail after an arrest on drunken driving and marijuana charges. Rep. Jeffrey Wood, an independent from Bloomer, was arrested early Friday by the Wisconsin State Patrol. A deputy at the Columbia County Jail says Wood was booked on charges of operating while intoxicated-first offense and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The deputy says Wood was booked at about 3 a.m. and released by about 9 a.m., when he posted $200 bond. Formal charges have not yet been filed by the district attorney. Wood became the first independent elected to the Wisconsin Legislature in decades in November after he quit the Republican Party. Democrats who took control of the chamber recently made him a committee chairman.