A Boston Police sergeant was arrested after cops say he was “highly intoxicated” once they responded to a rear-end collision in Brookline.
“Trooper, do you understand who I am?” off-duty BPD sergeant Mark McKeown allegedly advised a state trooper making an attempt to carry out a discipline sobriety take a look at on the sergeant.
A police report says that the responding trooper and Brookline Police officer instantly famous McKeown’s “slurred speech, odor of alcohol” and “glassy and bloodshot eyes” on the scene of the rear-end collision Saturday evening alongside the 400-block of VFW Parkway in Brookline. The police say that McKeown was at fault.
McKeown, 52, of Dedham, was charged in Brookline District Courtroom Monday with working a motorcar whereas intoxicated. A BPD spokesman mentioned he has been assigned to administrative desk obligation.
McKeown, in accordance with the report, advised the trooper and officer that regardless of his “5” drinks whereas attending a Bruins sport that evening, he was good to drive and that the one factor “bull(expletive)” in regards to the scenario is that he was having to take care of these “scumbag” cops on his approach residence.
Different pearls allegedly dropped by McKeown each earlier than and after being handcuffed and skim his Miranda rights — which incorporates the proper to stay silent — included calling the arresting officer a “sh— trooper,” each officers, “f—ing p—ies” and after being suggested he was being recorded and that was in his greatest curiosity to not behave that approach that he didn’t “give a f—” and to “shut the f— up.”
McKeown’s frustration wasn’t simply directed on the cops, nevertheless, because the trooper says he needed to repeatedly ask McKeown to cease “yelling profanities” on the different driver — who was not intoxicated — as the driving force was giving his personal assertion to police.
The trooper notes that McKeown saved saying, “with slurred speech,” that he didn’t know the place his license and registration was however wouldn’t search for it both. He additionally allegedly claimed to have arthritis so he couldn’t do a sobriety take a look at. Then that he had a illness he couldn’t pronounce. However, with the specter of arrest for refusing introduced, he complied and proceeded to bomb every take a look at, in accordance with the report.
A witness produced a dashcam video that purportedly reveals McKeown driving his grey 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee “at a high rate of speed past his vehicle and colliding with the concrete siding of a rotary prior to crashing into” the opposite car.
