A booze-fueled blunder has landed an East Bridgewater police sergeant on the wrong side of the law and on administrative leave. Sergeant Thomas Flint, a 50-year-old Bridgewater resident, reportedly found himself in handcuffs after a wild ride through Raynham that included speeding and a refusal to perform sobriety tests.
Flint was off-duty when he decided to allegedly drink and drive, only to be nabbed by a Raynham PD officer as detailed by Boston.com. The incident occurred Saturday around 11:20 p.m. near a traffic-choked intersection where an officer spotted Flint's black Mercedes SUV swerving with the kind of erratic ambition that inevitably draws the law's gaze.
According to Boston25News, Patrolman Brian Silva's eye caught the Mercedes crossing the yellow line multiple times and observed it overtake two slower vehicles by gunning it to around 70 mph in a 20 mph zone. A strong odor of alcohol from the vehicle was the olfactory proof in the pudding. Allegedly glassy-eyed and flushed, Flint found himself hard-pressed to string together a coherent sentence when confronted by Silva, ultimately refusing to perform any field sobriety tests.
Following his refusal to submit to a chemical breath test, Flint's license was seized, and he was released on personal recognizance as reported by WCVB. Raynham Police Chief David LaPlante's statement succinctly summed up the case: "It was determined that the driver, identified as FLINT, was allegedly intoxicated."
