Police arrest around 1.5 million Americans for driving under the influence (DUI) every year. It’s a sobering statistic. You can excuse the word play, but you can’t excuse the drivers for the crime. Especially when a violator is a police officer, like a Massachusetts police sergeant who is in hot water for a DUI car crash and having a gun in the car at the time.
A Massachusetts police sergeant is facing gun charges on top of a DUI for a June car crash in Rhode Island
Last month, a sergeant with the Bellingham Police Department crashed into a parked car while driving in the neighboring state of Rhode Island. That would be a relatively straightforward situation. If the Massachusetts police officer wasn’t drunk and in possession of a gun at the time.
Rhode Island police arrested Sergeant Kevin Heenan for driving under the influence (DUI). But, as if to complicate things, Heenan had a firearm in his car at the time.
According to the Milford Daily News, the police in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, charged Heenan with “operating a vehicle under the influence of liquor and possession of a firearm while intoxicated.” As a result, Bellingham Police Chief Ken Fitzgerald placed Heenan on paid administrative leave…