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Blood Alcohol Content

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Driver's Blood-Alcohol Content Was Five Times Legal Limit, Police Say

Kirkwood Police said they tested the 24-year-old woman and measured her blood-alcohol content at 0.41 percent. The legal limit is 0.08 percent.

The following information was supplied by court documents. It does not indicate a conviction where an arrest was made. A 24-year-old woman, who was pulled over for weaving and speeding on Interstate 44 Sunday, had a blood-alcohol content more than five times the legal limit, according to Kirkwood Police. Leslie Schwend, 24 , of Cedar Hill, was charged Monday with driving while intoxicated as a persistent offender, a felony. She faces her third alcohol-related driving charge in six years after being pulled over in Kirkwood. Kirwood Police said officers pulled Schwend over on westbound I-44 near Holmes Avenue Sunday for speeding and weaving on the roadway. Officers said she did poorly on a field test and took a breathalyzer test. The test …

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Joe Scott

10:26 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Thanks, Tim - you're right of course. And I've always need to work on my math. That's why I became a writer.   more ›

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