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Virginia Beach police sergeant charged with drunken driving

A Virginia State trooper pulled over a vehicle on Interstate 264 near the exit for Independence Boulevard in Virginia Beach, only to find a fellow officer behind the wheel.  The driver, Sgt. James Eric Riddick, 37, was suspected of drunken driving when the stop was made.

According to the arresting officer, Riddick – who was off-duty at the time – was weaving, failed field sobriety testing, and smelled strongly of alcohol.  A blood test administered two hours after the traffic stop registered Riddick’s blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) at 0.18, which is more than twice Virginia’s legal limit of 0.08.

As a result, Riddick was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), had to post $500 bond, and must appear before the General District Court next month.

Riddick, a fifteen year veteran of the Police Department, is currently on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation and ultimately the outcome of his trial.  He was apparently a highly regarded police officer, with 24 letters of recommendation and various commendations on his record.

This is not the first time that a police officer was arrested for drunken driving.  Last June Bryan K. Womble, a Virginia Beach police officer, was caught driving under the influence with a BAC of 0.15.  Womble’s arrest was a surprise to many, as he was a member of the Traffic Safety Unit, formerly known as the Selective Enforcement Team, a group targeting impaired drivers.

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