It started with flashing lights in the rearview mirror. For seven Tennessee drivers, that was the moment the night tilted into something unreal. They hadn’t been drinking. They hadn’t been using drugs. Yet each ended up in handcuffs, booked for DUI, and facing criminal charges that would later collapse under the weight of clean blood tests.
The common link: Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper James Zahn.
Court documents show the DUI arrests spanned from 2018 to 2025, all in Williamson County, Tennessee
In each case, drivers insisted they were sober, and lab results proved them right.
One was Hunter Lundgren, who in September 2024 crashed his car after misjudging a turn. Bleeding from a broken nose, he sat in an ambulance when Zahn asked if he’d been drinking at work. Lundgren worked at a winery, but he denied having alcohol. Minutes later, bodycam footage recorded the police officer speculating with another trooper that Lundgren was on cocaine or “some kind of upper.”…