Michigan Legislator Kivela Reportedly Commits Suicide: Patch PM

METRO DETROIT, MI — A Michigan state representative arrested Monday on a second drunken driving charge in two years has reportedly committed suicide, according to media reports. John Kivela, a Maquette Democrat, apparently took his life at a home he owns in Lansing hours after he was released from jail Tuesday.

Police said Kivela was “super drunk” under Michigan law when he was stopped Monday afternoon by sheriff’s deputies after numerous motorists on U.S-127 north of Lansing called to report an erratic driver, the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office said. Field sobriety tests showed Kivela’s blood alcohol content more than the legal limit of 0.08. Read the rest of the story here.

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