So many answers, all of them wrong

By Doug Page | Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 12:31 PM

Just before midnight on a Saturday, an Englewood officer was parked off Main Street watching traffic when he saw a car make an illegal left-hand turn, slam on its brakes in front of him, then gun it across two lanes of traffic into another parking lot.

On went the overhead lights as the officer pulled in next to the vehicle.

Got a drivers license? Not on me.

Identification card? Not on me.

Oh, and officer, this car doesn’t belong to me, and I don’t know where the insurance card is.

When asked his birth date, the driver tells the officer he was born in 1992, making him 17. The officer is skeptical.

The passenger tells the officer she knows the driver because she is a friend of the mother of the driver’s child. But all she knows is his first name, and they are en route to a local motel.

The officer then asks the driver if he’s had anything to drink. Just one beer comes the reply. The officer remains skeptical.

After performing field sobriety tests, the driver is arrested for drunken driving. Once arrested, the driver admits to giving the officer a false name and birth date. He is, in fact, 41. That is something the officer already figured out.

Running the driver’s information, the officer discovers the driver has not had a drivers license since 1999 and has a long history of license suspensions.

A search of the vehicle turns up a suspect crack pipe and a six pack of beer. The driver has $986 in cash on him, what he calls his “working money.” When asked what he does for a living, the driver replies he does not have a job.

He is taken to the county lockup on numerous charges.

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