BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A longtime Baton Rouge Fire Department captain has been placed on paid administrative leave after his arrest over the weekend on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, marking his fourth DWI charge.
Captain William Niette was arrested Saturday in Livingston Parish after deputies received reports of erratic driving on Highway 190, according to Sheriff Jason Ard.
“We got some calls that actually came in through our dispatch about this vehicle, which he was driving, driving erratic in certain areas on 190,” Ard said. “One of our deputies was able to get behind the vehicle, get him pulled over. Very quickly, he realized that he appeared to be impaired.”…