An intoxicated driver was discovered by multiple eyewitnesses to be passed out behind the wheel of a running car with his foot on the brake early on Sunday, July 4.
Diego Pedro Bernabe, 30, of Shelton, did not awaken despite several attempts by witnesses to wake him up according to Olympia police.
Olympia police contacted Bernabe at 2:07 a.m. at the intersection of Cooper Point Road SW and Capital Mall Drive SW. Police say he did not awaken during their initial attempts either, which included knocking on the driver’s window, shining a flashlight and announcing that they were law enforcement.
OPD opened the front passenger door, which was the only door unlocked, and accessed the vehicle, placing it in park without waking Bernabe up.
After multiple sternum rubs, Bernabe woke, appeared confused and tried to put the car into drive. OPD removed Bernabe from his vehicle, placing him in handcuffs. The reporting officer said that Bernabe “immediately appeared confused and looked like he was lost. I asked Diego to turn the car off and motioned him to do so. When I told him this, he began to turn the volume of the radio off and on instead. Diego also began honking the horn. Diego was advised multiple times to turn the car off but was unable to do so.”
OPD observed that his eyes were bloodshot, watery and there was an odor of intoxicants from his breath.
Based on Bernabe’s condition, police were unable to use standard field sobriety tests with him.
Bernabe refused to provide two breath samples so police woke up a judge to secure a warrant to draw blood samples. Bernabe was transported to Capital Medical Center for the procedure
Bernabe was booked into Olympia Jail on suspicion of driving under the influence.
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allislost
What an a.. Hopefully he gets serious jail time, AND that he peed all over his driver's seat.
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