Trooper: DUI Suspect Tried to Hit on Me

[sunny]

You troopers out there better be careful!

wwltv.com


Trooper: DUI Suspect Tried to Hit on Me

WOODVILLE, Maine (AP) -- A state trooper says she's baffled by the behavior of a suspect who displayed amorous intentions as she was taking him into custody for getting into a car accident and failing three roadside sobriety tests.

"What did he think I was going to do? Go out on a date with him?" asked Trooper Jennifer Fiske, who arrested Peter Bradley Murray early Sunday morning on Route 116.

Murray, 42, allegedly began behaving inappropriately while seated beside Fiske in the front passenger seat of her cruiser, which has no cage separating front and back seats.

"Then he said, 'You have beautiful green eyes,' and he started touching my arm," Fiske said. "I'd had enough of that."

Fiske got out of the car and went around to the passenger seat to handcuff Murray. She said he tried to cuff himself to her, saying, "I just want us to be tied together."

Fiske responded by giving a sudden short twist to the handcuff and rapping him on the thigh with her police baton. She said he later tried to grab for the steering wheel, forcing additional smacks.

Murray was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence, assault on a police officer, refusing to submit to arrest, and refusing to sign or give a name.

© 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[alicia-w]

if she was coyote ugly, it may have been another indicator of how drunk he really was...

[Skywatch_NC]

You troopers out there better be careful.

wwltv.com


Trooper: DUI Suspect Tried to Hit on Me

WOODVILLE, Maine (AP) -- A state trooper says she's baffled by the behavior of a suspect who displayed amorous intentions as she was taking him into custody for getting into a car accident and failing three roadside sobriety tests.

"What did he think I was going to do? Go out on a date with him?" asked Trooper Jennifer Fiske, who arrested Peter Bradley Murray early Sunday morning on Route 116.

Murray, 42, allegedly began behaving inappropriately while seated beside Fiske in the front passenger seat of her cruiser, which has no cage separating front and back seats.

"Then he said, 'You have beautiful green eyes,' and he started touching my arm," Fiske said. "I'd had enough of that."

Fiske got out of the car and went around to the passenger seat to handcuff Murray. She said he tried to cuff himself to her, saying, "I just want us to be tied together."

Fiske responded by giving a sudden short twist to the handcuff and rapping him on the thigh with her police baton. She said he later tried to grab for the steering wheel, forcing additional smacks.

Murray was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence, assault on a police officer, refusing to submit to arrest, and refusing to sign or give a name.

© 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Wonder why cruisers stopped using the cage screen? Surely not all of them have. As for Mr. Murray...this happened while he was under the influence...but you wonder if he's that frisky while sober?

[Brent]

[beenthru6]

I find it very odd that she put him in the front seat with her uncuffed. If she had to get out of the car and then go back around and cuff him, apparently she originally wasn't planning on cuffing him. I find that very strange.

[TexasStooge]

This story is also posted in the "Stupid Crimes" topic.