DWI: An alleged drunk driver's insane outing started in a Wendy's parking and ended after plowing his vehicle through a chain link fence at a nearby school.
SAPD officer faces elevated DWI charge after overnight arrest
Demarius Holmes, 24, charged with DWI with BAC over .15
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Demarius Holmes was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. (KSAT)
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio police officer was arrested by fellow officers overnight after being accused of driving while intoxicated, an SAPD spokeswoman confirmed Friday.
Demarius Holmes, 24, faces a Class A misdemeanor charge of DWI with a blood alcohol concentration over .15, booking records show.
Holmes, a three-year veteran of SAPD, was arrested just before 2:40 a.m. near Blanco Road and Tammy Drive, on the city’s North Side.
He has been suspended without pay, pending the outcome of a criminal and administrative investigation, according to an SAPD release.
Number of DWI crashes in Bexar County didn’t drop as expected amid pandemic, advocates say
MADD continues to provide support to families impacted by DWI crashes during coronavirus pandemic
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SAN ANTONIO – Although bars were closed for most of 2020 and the pandemic kept many people home, DWI cases did not drop as expected in Bexar County.
The pandemic shutdown did not slow down the need for services for victims of drunk drivers, said Azeza Salama, volunteer resource specialist for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, South Central Texas.
“I think our biggest concern was that we were still having the fatalities regardless of being in pre-pandemic or pandemic. We were still seeing crashes. We were still seeing arrests,” Salama said.
Alleged drunk driver gets car halfway off bridge in western WI Umm sorry but we are pretty sure that guardrail didnât want to go for a late night swim.
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You see some pretty interesting things on the Facebook profiles of local law enforcement agencies case in point, this post from authorities in Barron County, Wisconsin.
This weekend, the local sheriff s department posted a picture of a Nissan sedan teetering perilously on the edge of a bridge, along with an unusually candid description: Umm sorry but we are pretty sure that guardrail didn’t want to go for a late night swim, it reads. Maybe the open alcohol containers were why you didn’t stick around to explain how you pulled off this physics defying parking job?