TROY (WWJ) — A Sterling Heights man has been charged with being super drunk and having an open container of alcohol in his car after someone spotted him stumbling to his car in an IHOP parking lot.
It all unfolded around 9:40 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, according to Troy police officials, who say they got a 911 call that night from someone in the parking lot at 3132 Rochester Road, just north of Big Beaver Road.
The caller told police the man was "stumbling and almost falling trying to get into his vehicle," a 2013 Lincoln MKZ.
The caller followed the MKZ as it left the parking lot and turned north onto Rochester before heading east on Long Lake Road, according to police. Officers eventually found the car on Long Lake, west of John R, where they saw the driver swerving, crossing over the middle lane marker and speeding.
When officers pulled him over and spoke to the 40-year-old, they noticed his eyes were glassy and he had pinpoint pupils.
After failing multiple field sobriety tests, he blew a .206% BAC on a preliminary breath test and he was arrested and taken to the Troy Police Lock-Up. There, he blew .284% and .279% on chemical breath tests.
During a search of the man's car, police found an open bottle of whiskey on the front seat. The man was ticketed for operating with a BAC of .17% or more and open intoxicants in a vehicle.
The man's name has not been released.
