Nebraska takes the lead. . .

[LaughingCat]

http://www.ketv.com/news/22816836/detail.html

Police: Man Drunk At DUI Sentencing

Jason Botos Needed Help Getting Out Of Car


POSTED: 9:08 pm CST March 11, 2010
UPDATED: 11:26 am CST March 12, 2010

PAPILLION, Neb. -- Authorities said a drunken driver showed up for his sentencing hearing drunk again.
Jason Botos, 30, was driven to court by his father and investigators said he was so drunk that he had to be helped inside and wasn't able to make his court appearance.
"He was unable to get himself out of the vehicle, he was so intoxicated," said deputy Sarpy County attorney Ben Perlman.
Investigators said Botos' father asked deputies to help carry his son inside the courthouse.
Botos was scheduled to be sentenced for a drunken driving offense in September 2009. He was driving near Highway 75 and Cornhusker Road when his car jumped a curb and smashed into five other vehicles, critically injuring three people.
"Because he failed to appear for his court appearance, a warrant was issued," said Perlman.
Deputies arrested Botos in the parking lot.

"He was kind of slumped over. Two deputies assisted him," said Sarpy County Sheriff's Deputy Tina Anderson. "He could not walk on his own."
Inside the jail, Anderson put Botos through a breath test.
"The test showed he was at a 0.43," she said, a level that is more than five times the legal limit.
Deputies sent him to a hospital to get checked out and then brought him back to a cell.
"He was coughing and curled up in a ball," Anderson said.
Botos now faces a new charge and more jail time in a case that has authorities shaking their heads.
"This is a pretty rare case, and extreme case," said Capt. Monty Daganaar of the Sarpy County Sheriff's Office.
Botos will be sentenced on Tuesday. Between the new charge of failure to appear and the drunken driving conviction, he could get 18 months in jail.

[Wrinkleface]

He could B find'n out what husk'n "CORN" is really about!!!!

[Chris]

I have a former friend that lapsed into alcoholism. Serial drunk driver. It wasn't too bad at first. Over the years it got worse. He did a year last time. He goes for 10 mandatory if his appeal fails- which it will. He's working on "relocating" outside the country, last I heard.

Odd thing is, he's a successful guy- with about 80 employees.

Addiction is tough to grasp unless you've experienced it.

[LaughingCat]

I totally empathize with someone struggling to fight an addiction. But showing up to your DUI sentencing so hammered the deputies cannot get you out of the car is foolish.

[JupiterSunsation]

I have a former friend that lapsed into alcoholism. Serial drunk driver. It wasn't too bad at first. Over the years it got worse. He did a year last time. He goes for 10 mandatory if his appeal fails- which it will. He's working on "relocating" outside the country, last I heard.

Odd thing is, he's a successful guy- with about 80 employees.

Addiction is tough to grasp unless you've experienced it.

Local plumber did it here a few years ago (40 vans on the road, very successful) but killed a kid in a small car with an Excursion (after blowing through the red light) and got 10 years.......subsequently lost everything.

[Davidmnc]

I totally empathize with someone struggling to fight an addiction. But showing up to your DUI sentencing so hammered the deputies cannot get you out of the car is foolish.