In a pair of unrelated new incidents, two police officers crashed patrol cars and trucks although driving beneath the affect. A single happened in Florida in which an off-responsibility officer struck an unoccupied automobile. In the 2nd incident, an off-responsibility officer rammed into the back again of other motorists prior to fleeing the scene. Equally ended up arrested soon thereafter.
In the initial incident, Miami-Dade officer Leopold Lewis, 42 drove his police car into a parked motor vehicle although off-responsibility and drunk. Lewis still left the scene prior to he was arrested and now faces expenses of leaving the scene of a crash, drunken driving, and DUI with assets hurt.
“This officer put the community in threat in the similar automobile that the neighborhood has entrusted as a image of security,” MDPD Director Alfredo Ramirez claimed in a assertion to Regional 10 Information. “I will not tolerate any agent of the Miami-Dade Law enforcement Division to jeopardize the neighborhood’s rely on.
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In yet another incident, 36 yr-previous Doug Rutoskey rear-finished yet another motorist although beneath the affect of liquor. Likewise to the incident in Florida, Rutoskey was driving his patrol motor vehicle and fled the scene following the incident. He only stopped following he strike a development barrier with his patrol motor vehicle.
Rutoskey was booked on expenses of leaving the scene of an incident, running a automobile with an ACE (Liquor Focus Equal) of .15 or larger, and running a automobile although intoxicated endangering a human being. He was subsequently unveiled.
“My viewpoint is that I was just in shock I didn’t even know what was likely on,” claimed the male who was in the automobile that was strike, Roger Mason to WRTV. 𠇎ven this early morning, following the truth of all the things I was just in shock. I can’t imagine that this occurred.”
Regrettably, these sorts of incidents aren’t unheard of. On November 16th, yet another off-responsibility law enforcement officer, 21-12 months veteran Sgt. Peter Fekkes of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Law enforcement division was issued a summons on allegations of driving beneath the affect. Fekkes was put on administrative go away following Ohio freeway patrol observed an open up liquor container in his crashed Jeep, says FOX59.