A Pair of Suspected DUIs

DUI  … Sharandeep Singh, 21, of 2000 block of Blair Mill Road, Willow Grove, was arrested March 8 at 11:42 p.m. near the corner of Susquehanna and Twining roads after he made an illegal turn on red while driving a blue Kia Sorento, police said. According to police, Singh did not pull over immediately and there was a strong odor of alcohol coming from the passenger compartment.

Singh was unsteady on his feet, police said, and had slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. He admitted to drinking, had a blood alcohol content of 0.197 percent and was released into the custody of a family member.

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DUI .. Richard Jeffrey Drew, 55, of the 600 block of Meadowbrook Avenue, Ambler, was arrested March 9 at about 3 a.m. at the 7-Eleven parking lot on Bethlehem Pike in Ambler after a citizen flagged down a police officer and said that a man appeared to be passed out behind the wheel of his vehicle — a dark Chevrolet HHR — in the parking lot with the vehicle running, police said.  According to police, Drew was disoriented and fumbled around the vehicle. There was a smell of alcohol emanating from the vehicle and Drew had slurred speech and bloodshot eyes, police said.  When asked if he had anything to drink, Drew said to police, “I should not be driving.”

According to police, when asked to perform some field sobriety tests, Drew said that he had graduated from Penn State. Drew recited the alphabet, slurring the letters together and becoming unintelligible in the end. He had a BAC of 0.228 percent, police said.