In June of 2010, the wife of powerful Indiana
Sen. Richard Lugar was arrested for drunk driving after she slammed into a
parked car and took off. The cops waited
for three hours before administering a blood test to her and to be even more
extra special nice, they dropped the hit and run charges.
But when the breath test administered at jail
three hours after her arrest showed a 0.11 percent blood-alcohol level, above
the 0.08 percent legal limit, the cops were really worried because now they had
to press charges. Here’s the lighter
part of the story, the cops said a three-hour lag between the incident, and the
breath test is within the normal range because of the time it takes to
transport someone to jail.
The
jail is in Fairfax, she was arrested in McLean about fifteen minutes away. Later on when she was found guilty in court,
the mandatory jail sentence imposed on her was suspended. Outraged the politics playing by the police,
the Board of Supervisors demanded an international investigation….no, that
didn’t happen either. In fact, the Board
of Supervisors said and did nothing.