Bruce Jenner, AKA "Bruised Gender"...
Posted on 06/13/2015 7:52:10 AM PDT by SamAdams76
WMEX host Michele McPhee was arraigned Thursday on charges she drove up I-93 while drunk and then attacked the trooper trying to arrest her.
At her arraignment in South Boston Municipal Court today, McPhee was released on personal recognizance on charges of OUI, assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and failing to observe marked lanes.
According to a State Police report, when Trooper Patrick Candeliere declined McPhee's repeated requests to call the head of State Police and the president of the state-trooper's union and instead tried to cuff her, she started a struggle that ended with both of them heading to Tufts Medical Center for observation - in her case, overnight.
McFee did not make her 3-6 p.m. shift at WMEX, however. Instead, morning host Joe Ligotti filled in, praising her as "my dear friend, who I love, and support, and cherish."
The report, written by Candeliere, said the events leading to McPhee's arrest started around 1 a.m. on I-93 northbound near Savin Hill Avenue, when he noticed a Mercedes SUV swerving from lane to lane - at one point coming "within mere inches of sideswiping the jersey barrier on right side of the road."
At the Dorchester Ave. overpass, Candeliere writes, he turned on his cruiser lights and siren. "The Mercedes, in sequence, declerated, accelerated and declerated, bypassing the Exit 16 off-ramp. The Mercedes came to a slow rolling stop in the right lane beyond the Exit 16 off-ramp in South Boston."
Candeliere reported he pulled up, smelled alcohol and asked her why she didn't get off as he tried to get her to do. He writes she told him she wasn't headed that way, because she was heading home to East Boston. She agreed, however, to get off at Exit 18, which he reports she did, more or less - after rolling the SUV over the curb and onto a sidewalk.
McPhee, who he wrote had bloodshot and glassy eyes and slurred speech, said she'd just gotten off work at WMEX in Marina Bay - in fact, her shift ends at 6 p.m. - and that she'd "defended cops for 30 years."
At his order, she got out of the vehicle, after first making sure to "adjust several knobs and levers on her steering column and dashboard" - and then pulling up her jeans, which were falling down. Then she got chatty, the trooper reports:
"McPhee reported the following, in order: HS Grad/UMASS Boston Graduate (Bachelor degree 'Just barely graduated'), employed as reporter for ABC News and radio host for a radio station in Marina Bay (Quincy), which she identified and I was unable to understand. McPhee state that she has 'defended the police for years' and requested that I contact Dana Pullman [president of the state troopers' union] so she could go home. McPhee listed several members of police agencies and Massachusetts State Police Colonel Timothy Alben as friends whom I should contact. McPhee continued by reporting the following during field interview, in order: No medication, not seeing a doctor, no injury, no medical problems, no diabetes. I asked McPhee about how much sleep she had on the previous day and she replied 'Zero.' I asked McPhee what she had done during the day and she stated 'Work.' McPhee stated that she got out of work at 9 P.M. and went out with her boyfriend. McPhee stated that she consumed dinner, after work, at Port 305 Restaurant in Marina Bay near the radio station. McPhee reported consuming 'steak tips and stuff' for dinner.
"McPhee again stated that she has advocated for police for several years and that I should know of her. I asked McPhee how much alcohol she had consumed and she stated, 'Nothing ... well some wine at dinner.' McPhee did not detail the quantity or total volume of alcoholic beverages that she had consumed.'"
When the trooper asked her to perform a series of field-sobriety tests, McPhee allegedly told him to "call any trooper, Dana Pullman or the Colonel so I can leave." When he demurred, she refused to do any more tests - at least until he said he felt she had been driving drunk and that he was placing her under arrest.
"Fine I'll do the tests, get me a supervisor!"
The trooper tried to cuff her. McPhee "grew billigerent, resistant and enraged."
"McPhee physically counteracted my attempts to place her in handcuffs at the front of the Mercedes. I gained control of McPhee's left arm and she elbowed my chest with her right arm. McPhee proceded to kick her feet, striking me in the legs while stating 'I'm calling the Colonel ... let me go ... get a supervisor.' I radioed for help on my portable radio of struggling with McPhee for about 1 minute.
The struggle continued until another trooper and a Boston police officer arrived.
"Officer Coyne ran to my location and gained control of McPhee's left arm. Officer Coyne, McPhee and I stumbled toward the sidewalk and fell to the ground. I traveled, in the air, over McPhee while still holding her right arm. I lost control of her arm and fell on my left hand, right forarm and right knee. McPhee continued to resist and was placed in hancuffs while on the sidewalk with the assistance of Officer Coyne. McPhee was able to free herself from the handcuff and they were re-applied."
At that point, he noticed blood coming from her face - some of which now coated his left hand and arm. He says she continued her "enraged and condescending statements/behavior" as she was being booked at the South Boston State Police barracks and before she was transported to Tufts - where he went for evaluation himself.
She only recently got the new gig over at the new WMEX.
She has always been very pro Cop.
When I first read this story a couple of days ago I sensed that the arresting officer had embellished the report a little. This above reads like even more BS.
I drive that area of the Expressway quite regularly, and the Cops rarely ( I mean never) pull anyone over for erratic driving. Heck, erratic driving is a requirement there.
I am no big fan of this woman simply because she does not have a ‘radio voice.’ It is difficult listening to her in my opinion.
I don’t buy this report at all though. It is way too iron clad for this Police Officer.
Does that include Operating my power saw or chain saw and lawn tractor in my yard?
Booze is the main and original “mind altering substance” and it works.
That is why some people act in ways their friends don’t recognize, when they get drunk.
Was she drinking Night Train [Woo Woo]?
As I stated up top, this seems very uncharacteristic of her. She always seemed like a solid citizen and a patriot to me. I always liked her work, whether it was her reporting, her books or her talk radio work (annoying voice notwithstanding).
Here is her official website.
Of interest to you perhaps? Chump line ought to be good with this stuff to work with.
Thank you! I vaguely recollect writing rules that require one to define an acronym before using it. /rant
I guess it is really hard to not drive drunk in Boston.
Fwiw, I think it works that way in most every state now.
Thank MADD and the state revenuers.
Add Transgender and Hispanic for full credit!
“What is a “OUI”?”
Yes.
So many laws, so little time.
It's entirely at the discretion of the officer, Red.
It's like the little girl lemonade stand thingee. The officer picks and chooses which of the innumerable laws he wants to enforce at that particular moment.
One of my favorites (blast from the past) was when the guy was sitting outside a diner and using their WiFi hotspot on his lunch hours:
Another Incident Of Dumb Cops Arresting A Guy For Using An Open Wi-Fi Connection
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1843766/posts
...Sparta Police Chief Andrew Milanowski asked Peterson where he got the Internet connection, and Petsron said from the cafe.
Now, the story so far is shocking enough, but it gets even more shocking:
Milanowski ruled out Peterson as a possible stalker of the attractive local hairdresser, but still felt that a law might have been broken.
"We came back and we looked up the laws and we figured if we found one and thought, 'Well, let's run it by the prosecutor's office and see what they want to do,'" Milanowski said.
Here's how that reads to me: They don't care about who's using Wi-Fi in Sparta, Mich. The police chief just didn't like the way Peterson parted his hair, and so he dug and dug and dug until he found something he could charge Peterson with.
Peterson copped a plea. If he'd fought it, he could have faced a sentence of up to five years in jail, and a $10,000 fine...
I call this "peasant law" - this is the reason that no charges against Hillary Clinton or Lois Lerner don't pass the smell test. I know for a fact that Lois Lerner committed felonies by giving taxpayer information to other, unauthorized gruberment agencies.
Hillary committed obstruction felonies.
But they aren't peasants...
She looks like John Kerry after a Bruce Jenner make-over.
Saretainly - it's a state of affairs that's enough to git yer Irish up!
It is French for “I’m your fool”
Some places it includes riding a horse.I don’t know how they handle it if the horse has been drinking too.
Bruce Jenner, AKA "Bruised Gender"...
They shoot the dog? Or do they do that, anyway?
In the 70s OUI was a dirty magazine.
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