Man Calls Police to Get Him At Convenience Store, is Charged With Public Drunkenness, Police Say

Lower Pottsgrove police cited a Boyertown man for public intoxication on Sept. 15 after responding to the man’s phone call to police that he made from a Turkey Hill convenience store, telling them that he would wait for them in the store’s lot, according to The Sanatoga Post.

Lower Pottsgrove police arrived at the Turkey Hill convenience store on East High Street around Rupert Road in Lower Pottsgrove to find James M. Kiene, 50, who appeared to police to be very intoxicated, according to a Lower Potsgrove police report. Kiene said that he had argued with someone at another person’s residence, after which Kiene left, walked to the Turkey Hill, and then called police, say police.

Police gave him a portable breath test, and, after it was determined that he could not drive a motor vehicle and no sober person could fetch him or accept him, police took him into custody to the Pottstown police station to await sobriety, according to the report.

Kiene is charged with public drunkenness and similar misconduct, according to court documents found by Patch.com.