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Bradford motorcyclist's ruse fails to foil DUI
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
An early Monday morning anonymous tip
reporting a man talking to himself on Chase
Hollow Road in Bradford led police to charge
Bradford resident Shawn Pape, 39, with driving
under the influence -- the man's fourth.
Pape, partially pinned under the rear wheel of
his motorcycle, deflected officers' questions by
pretending to be asleep on his bike's gas tank,
according to a statement released by Vermont
State Police on Tuesday.
Pape refused field sobriety tests, but technicians
at the Bradford barracks later that evening
determined his blood alcohol content to be 0.209
percent (0.08 percent is the legal limit), the
statement continued.
Officers escorted Pape to the Northeast Regional
Correctional Center in St. Johnsbury for lack of a
$5,000 bail, police said
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