MADD Award Winner Arrested For DUI (Oh yeah, he is a cop too)

[matcom]

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AURORA, Ind. -- A Cincinnati police officer was jailed Thursday morning, charged with driving while intoxicated.

Charles Bebee, 53, was arrested in Aurora, Ind., around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A police report stated that an officer spotted a sport utility vehicle moving at a high rate of speed, then a car behind the SUV stopped to tell the officer that the driver of the SUV was going to cause an accident.

The officer followed the SUV for some time before pulling it over for doing 55 in a 35 mph zone.

The report said the officer gave a field sobriety test to Bebee, who failed it. The report said Bebee consented to a chemical test, where his blood-alcohol level was determined to be .08 percent.

Police said that Bebee was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and operating while intoxicated with a blood alcohol content of .08 or higher.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving presented Bebee with a Top Cop award earlier this year.

Cincinnati police said Beebe would be assigned to desk duty, with police powers suspended, pending the outcome of his court case.

http://www.wnbc.com/news/13256454/detail.html

[datasuspect]

1. "police powers"?

i bet he knows magic too

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. THat's what crossed my mind too.

"Police Powers... Activate!"

[Shell Beau]

2. That sure sucks for him. There goes all he stands for.

He probably had 1 beer with that level!

[datasuspect]

3. cops usually give each other a pass for stuff like that

note to self: don't be a cop in Indiana

[Shell Beau]

4. He must have been an ass! Or the other one was!

Maybe it was that same cop who wouldn't let that girl get to the hospital to check on her dad's heartattack!!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. There are more cops per square foot in Indiana than

ANYWHERE I have ever lived. They are SERIOUS about their law enforcement- they even patrol the back country roads. They cover EVERYTHING in Indiana.

[datasuspect]

6. come to texas

in my area there are at least 5 overlapping agencies.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. I live in Dallas.

I know.

[datasuspect]

13. my bad for being lazy

shoulda checked the profile

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Didn't the president of MADD get busted drunk driving a few years

ago?

This is why I am "Designated Driver" always. Not even a glass of wine those limits are so low.

[Shell Beau]

9. You are right! Like I said, by that reading, he may have had 1 beer which

for a lot of men and women hardly qualifies as drunk. I do understand though the reasons that law is there.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I agree. Drunk driving laws are a good thing but I sometimes think

they've made the levels too low. It almost appears the low levels get arrested for drunk driving while the 2.5ers wrap themselves around another car. :(

[Shell Beau]

11. Yep! How is it that they avoid the cops? And you know they always

come out of the wrecks unscathed while the innocent usually get pounded!