LOL! It makes a good story, but the other circumstances as you say are what led to the arrest.
Besides, it's perfectly all right to drink some red wines with smoked salmon. Wine choices aren't based on color, but on flavor-matching with the dish. Obviously for something delicate like filet of sole in a mild sauce, a nice gentle but crisp white is appropriate, but salmon has a relatively strong flavor, especially smoked and if it's been gussied up with capers, chopped onion, crumbled egg, etc. I wouldn't drink a powerful Bordeaux with it (the "roast beef of Old England" is about all that can stand up to a really big claret), but a nice Beaujolais-style red or something mild and soft would be just fine. So would a full-bodied white with some bite to it, of course.