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The trooper smelled booze. The driver said it was his basketball sneakers

Re.bound for Jail –

April 26, 2018 – It’s gotta be the shoes. That’s what the Federal Way man told a Washington State Patrol trooper was making his car smell, documents say. He said he was headed home from some late-night basketball at a local gym. The trooper definitely smelled alcohol. The field sobriety tests and the blood-alcohol tests showed the trooper was right, Pierce County prosecutors said … Eventually, the man acquiesced and exited the vehicle to perform field sobriety tests. He failed all of them. The trooper asked the man to take a breath test, but the man became belligerent, swearing at the trooper and calling him ugly. He said he played basketball all day, every day, then leaned toward the trooper and threatened to beat him up “in the streets.”

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