HC list ping: poss. for Police Blotter Fax Friday?
Suspect back on road for one day--Driver charged with third DUI
SALEM — A man who lost his license for drunken driving got it back on Thursday and the very next day went on a drunken jaunt through Peabody and Salem, where he was arrested, police said.
Salem District Court Judge Richard Mori ordered James P. Malone of North Reading held on $10,000 cash bail yesterday, twice the amount recommended by police prosecutor Lt. Conrad Prosniewski. Malone faces two charges, failure to stop and drunken driving, third offense. Malone was last arrested in January on drunken-driving charges he faces in Woburn District Court, which caused his license to be suspended for the six months, Prosniewski said. His license was reinstated Thursday.
"And the next day he gets picked up for drunk driving?" Mori asked. "What timing."
"Yes," Prosniewski responded.
The lieutenant said a police dispatcher in Peabody received the first call on Malone on Friday around 10:20 p.m. An erratic driver in a red Buick was traveling on Boston Street into Salem. Salem police officers found Malone driving from Summer Street onto Margin Street, Prosniewski said.
Officers noticed the car weaving in front of the post office, saw it run a stop sign at Mill Street and pulled the driver over on Endicott Street, according to the police prosecutor.
Malone attempted to open the door about 20 times but couldn't and eventually managed to roll down the window. The officer could smell alcohol coming from inside the Buick.
"His eyes were red and watering," Prosniewski told the judge. "His speech was slurred." When officers asked Malone where he had come from, he told them his house and gave the same answer when asked where he was going. The driver struggled to get out of his car and during a field sobriety test could not lift up his left leg without losing his balance, the police prosecutor said.
Standing outside, Malone urinated on himself. He also was unable to recite the alphabet, Prosniewski said. After being taken back to the police station and read his Miranda rights, Malone was given two Breathalyzer tests, the police prosecutor said. His blood alcohol content was .20 on the first try and .21 on the second, the police prosecutor said. The legal limit for drunken driving is .08.
"His license was seized and destroyed at this point," Prosniewski said.
He said another driver had followed Malone from Peabody and had seen him lose control of the Buick and strike a tree. The police prosecutor said officers could not determine which tree had been struck. "The tree could have been a vehicle or another person," Prosniewski told the judge
Wed column ping
Hey, Pags, how ’bout them Celtics?
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, December 9, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
When the phone don’t ring this morning, you’ll know it’s Steve Pagliuca.
Sorry, Steve, those robo-calls just didn’t pay off, did they? Neither did all your lame TV spots. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time, as a famous Republican once noted.
Steve, until this weekend I didn’t know who I was going to vote for. Usually there’s one Democrat in any primary who is at least marginally less committed to the moonbat agenda than the rest of the field. This “special” election, I was at a complete loss. It was Moe, Larry, Curley - and Shemp.
But then I got that third Pagliuca robo-call. And I knew what I had to do. I voted for Alan Khazei, even though he’s a moonbat’s moonbat, even though he’s from Brookline (am I repeating myself?), even though he was endorsed by the Globe (understandable, an unprofitable rag endorsing someone from a “nonprofit,” which to a moonbat is the next best thing to not working).
But Steve, I just had to vote for Khazei, to push you into last place.
How’s that championship trophy of yours doing this morning?
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Steve, given your record of supporting George Bush and Mitt Romney, did it ever occur to you to run as what you really are, which is to say, a Republican?
That is not to say that you would be the favorite today against Martha Coakley. She is, after all, the perfect candidate for the modern Massachusetts electorate - someone for rich, white lunatics to vote for if they still feel guilty, even after voting for Barack and Deval (and, in Newton, Setti).
Steve, here’s something you should have considered about $10 million ago. If you give moonbats a choice among three moonbats and a fake moonbat, they’ll pick the moonbat every time.
Capuano wasn’t always a moonbat. But at least he had the voting record to prove that Barney Frank has kidnapped his mind. Watching Pags veer left there were only two possibilities - he’d either lost his mind, or he was lying. Either way, his credibility was zero.
When he claimed he was inspired by Kerry’s 2004 reporting for doody - I mean duty - speech, you knew he would say absolutely anything to get elected.
Yesterday morning, I heard one final Pags radio spot: “I’ve met so many people whose lives were turned upside down by this recession. . . .”
And Bain Capital does what to people’s lives when it buys a company? But Pags wants confiscatory taxes on those evil robber barons - now that he’s made his bundle.
See ya, Steve.
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