Police Log

DUI

On April 10, at about 6 p.m., a vehicle exiting the McDonald’s parking lot was flashing its high beam and beeping the horn to get the patrolman’s attention.

The operator then shouted, “There’s two people overdosed in a car back here!”

Patrolman Nick Bordieri then turned on my emergency lights and siren and pulled into the parking lot. Upon arrival he observed a male in the driver seat and front passenger seat, both asleep, heads down, and snoring.

The patrolman immediately started to perform a sternum rub on the man in the driver’s seat who then finally became conscious and alert. The operator then began to shake and became conscious and alert.

Bordieri observed the operator’s pupils to be constricted and his speech to be slurred. He asked the operator if he had taken any narcotics to which he replied they did not and that they were just tired.

While in his cruiser running procedural checks, Bordieri observed the driver put his vehicle in reverse and back up without looking, subsequently striking the red Jeep behind him.

The operator of the Jeep advised he was not injured and there was minor damage to the Jeep’s front bumper. Johnston Fire Department (JFD) responded to the scene.

Patrolman Bordieri then asked the original driver to submit to a series of field sobriety tests to which he consented.

The driver was placed under arrest for the suspicion of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor and/or drugs. The operator refused a chemical test. Later, at the station, the driver admitted to having taken two Xanax pills that he had bought off a street dealer.

He was charged with DUI first offense-B.A.C. unknown, refusal to submit chemical test and driving with suspended/revoked/cancelled License fourth offense.

He was awaiting arraignment.