Crime & Safety
PD: Man Who Drive at 3X Legal Limit and Rolled Car Over Had Empty Six-Pack
The 33-year-old failed a breathalyzer and walking sobriety tests, finally telling police, 'just go ahead. Take me in. I'm [ruined] anyway.'
On May 3 at 8:07 p.m., George J. Rzeczka, 33, of no certain address was involved in a one-car rollover accident on Lyceum Road in his Ford Fusion.
The report says the car was in the bushes in leaning on the passenger side at a 40-degree angle with the other wheels off the ground and Rzeczka was stumbling around outside the car.
Police say just outside the car was an empty cardboard six-pack of Coors Light glass bottles and he smelled heavily of alcohol and had glassy and bloodshot eyes.
He admitted to drinking four beers prior, police say, and said at first the Coors wasn't his, then later admitted to throwing them because he has a CDL license and was fearful the tolerance for DUI with a CDL was lower and didn't want to lose his license.
He allowed a walking sobriety test, saying, "Yea, sure. I'm screwed anyway," and he failed, after being told four times to put his hands by his side; instead putting them twice on his head, once in his pockets and "the fourth time he turned around and put his hands behind his back and said, 'just go ahead. Take me in. I'm screwed anyway,'" according to the report.
His blood alcohol levels registered .2702 and .2727, the report says, and he was arrested for failure to drive upon the right and DUI.
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