Indian American Lawmaker from Maryland arrested for DUI

Baltimore Sun is reporting that Kumar P Barve, the house majority leader in Maryland legislature and a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, was arrested on Thursday night in Gaithersburg, Maryland and charged with driving while impaired by alcohol.

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Kumar Barve failed a field sobriety test and was found to have a 0.10 blood-alcohol level through a preliminary breath test, which is not admissible as evidence in court. The legal limit is 0.08.

Barve was handcuffed and taken to a county police station in Gaithersburg, where he refused a blood-alcohol test.

Police charged him on four counts: driving under the influence, driving while impaired, failure to obey a traffic device and failure to drive right of the center line.

What's ironical here is that Kumar P Barve was one of the sponsors of a 2001 bill that changed the Maryland state's legal blood-alcohol level for drivers from 0.10 to 0.08.