{"id":14637,"date":"2012-09-21T19:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T02:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=14637"},"modified":"2012-09-21T19:11:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T02:11:51","slug":"tenino-police-driver-stopped-with-more-than-five-times-the-legal-limit-alcohol-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=14637","title":{"rendered":"Tenino police: Driver stopped with more than five times the legal limit alcohol level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 54-year-old motorist was arrested by Tenino police yesterday when his blood alcohol content was measured at .415, a level the police chief says would be fatal to most people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver was not able to walk unassisted and when asked if he would complete any field sobriety tests he said he probably shouldn\u2019t,&#8221; Tenino Police Department Chief John Hutchings said.<\/p>\n<p>A Tenino police officer responded about 3:40 p.m. yesterday in Rainier to reports of a blue van swerving in and out of oncoming traffic, traveling 30 mph in a 50 mph zone and at one point coming to a complete stop in the middle of the road, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Chris Davis found the van at state Route 507 and Manke Road and attempted a traffic stop with his lights and sirens but the driver continued at least a full minute before finally pulling over at the 13400 block of state Route 507, police reported.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and his 57-year-old female passenger were both obviously intoxicated, Hutchings stated in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Gary D. Bielefeld, 54, of Lacey, was arrested for driving under the influence and taken to the Tenino Police Department for processing, according to the chief.<\/p>\n<p>Two breath samples were taken and each registered .415, the chief stated. That&#8217;s more than five times above the .08 legal limit to drive.<\/p>\n<p>A subsequent check determined Bielefeld was wanted on a no-bail felony warrant out of Jefferson City, Missouri, for persistent DUI offender, according to Hutchings.<\/p>\n<p>Bielefeld was booked into the Thurston County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A 54-year-old motorist was arrested by Tenino police yesterday when his blood alcohol content was measured at .415, a level the police chief says would be fatal to most people. &#8220;The driver was not able to walk unassisted and when asked if he would complete any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-14637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14640,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637\/revisions\/14640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}