A former Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy was busted again Saturday for drunk driving after crashing into two cars in a restaurant parking lot, court documents allege.
Guy J. Mikulich, 45, is charged with Level 6 felony operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a prior conviction within seven years, two misdemeanor counts of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and an infraction for Operating a Motor Vehicle Without Financial Responsibility.
Court filings show he posted a $1,000 cash bond.
Highland Police responded just after 6 p.m. July 5 to Theo’s Steaks & Seafood, 9144 Indianapolis Blvd.
The staff saw him “staggering” to the door and the manager said she would call an Uber. They said he only had one drink there.
The affidavit alleges Mikulich got into an SUV, hit a parked black Jeep in the parking lot, before the manager went outside and told him to park. Mikulich backed up and hit another vehicle.
When cops showed up, Mikulich was “argumentative” and “uncooperative.” He admitted hitting both vehicles, but refused to talk otherwise, holding his hands out to be arrested.
“Take me in,” he said.
He declined to do field sobriety tests. Officers later found an empty 1.75-liter vodka bottle on the vehicle’s floor.
“All I did was get wasted in my car,” he said at the police station.
Court records show Mikulich pleaded guilty, but mentally ill in 2018 for a 2016 hit-and-run at the Gary Air Show. He has since finished his Lake County Community Corrections stint.
As part of a plea deal in that case, he admitted to leaving the scene of an accident with serious bodily injury and causing serious bodily injury when operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol concentration of .08% or more, both Level 6 felonies.
Mikulich, who was in uniform, struck Derrick Dircks, of Frankfort Square, Ill., with his county-issued unmarked Ford Crown Victoria and fled the scene on July 10, 2016, after Mikulich had worked security at the air show, according to court documents.
Dircks was packing up his minivan on Oak Avenue with his family when he was struck, the deal states.
The Lake County sheriff’s police merit board fired Mikulich, a 16-year veteran with the department in 2017.
Dircks sued Mikulich and the city of Gary. A jury awarded him nearly $20 million in May. Gary was ordered to pay $15 million of that total. Another court hearing is set for July 17.
