Crime & Safety
Capital: Off-Duty Annapolis Officer Speeding, Legally Drunk at Time of Fatal Crash
The newspaper reports that the officer's blood alcohol content was nearly double the legal limit and was driving more than 30 miles over the speed limit when involved in a fatal crash that killed a Glen Burnie man.
According to police reports, Annapolis Police Officer James Salyers had a blood alcohol content of 0.19 and was speeding last October when he was involved in a fatal crash, as reported by The Capital's Scott Daughtery.
Salyers was off-duty and driving his own vehicle at the time, according to an earlier .
According to The Capital, a passenger in the other vehicle, Andrew Arnold-McCoy, 18, of Glen Burnie, died in the accident. Whether Salyers was responsible for the death "remains an open question," The Capital report states.
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The full Capital report can be read here: hometownannapolis.com/news/top/2011/06/09-19/Police-Off-duty-Annapolis-cop-drunk-speeding-in-fatal-crash.html
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