Friday, December 25, 2009

Full Of The Christmas Spirit

Or some kind of spirit, anyway:
The executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association was arrested last weekend in Columbia County on suspicion of drunken driving after he was called to the scene of an accident involving the group's director of finance.

James L. Palmer II was arrested early Saturday after a Columbia County Sheriff's deputy noticed he smelled of alcohol, his speech was slurred and his eyes were bloodshot. A preliminary breath test showed Palmer's blood alcohol level was 0.146.

Palmer told a sheriff's deputy that he was called to the scene of a one-vehicle crash by Jean O. Steinhauer, who is director of finance for the police association.

When a Columbia County Sheriff's deputy arrived at the scene around 2:30 a.m. Saturday in the Town of Hampden, a state trooper reported Steinhauer had crashed her vehicle into a shed and had been consuming alcohol, according to the Columbia County Sheriff's accident report. When the deputy arrived, Palmer was standing outside his vehicle parked next to Steinhauer's vehicle.

Palmer told the deputy that he had been drinking with Steinhauer earlier in the evening at the High Noon Saloon in Madison. He admitted drinking three scotches and had been at his Sun Prairie home for about an hour and a half when Steinhauer called him to say she had driven off the road, according to the accident report.

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