October 24, 2011
A Houston, Texas, police officer has been charged with DWI after causing an accident in Pasadena on Sunday, October 16.
The 37-year-old officer was charged with drunken driving and unlawful carrying of a weapon after running a red light in his white Tahoe and crashing into another vehicle on Red Bluff and Beltway 8 around 1 a.m. that Sunday.
No one was seriously injured in the auto accident.
A Pasadena Police Department public information officer told The Pasadena Citizen that an officer dispatched to the scene noted that the Houston officer appeared intoxicated, had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. He failed several field sobriety tests. After refusing to have his blood drawn, the officer was taken to HPD’s Central Intox facility where a search warrant allowed the taking of his blood.
A sample of his blood revealed a blood alcohol level of 0.127 percent. However, the legal limit in Texas is 0.08 percent.
The Houston officer, who was been with the department since 2001, was relieved from duty on Monday pending an investigation into the accident.
The Pasadena Citizen notes that while it’s not illegal to carry a weapon in a car in Texas, it becomes an offense when connected with a violation of the law.
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