Well...alleged DUI, can't prove it.  It's not about what you did, but how you explain it.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/11/heres-how-one-honolulu-cop-got-his-job-back-after-he-was-fired-for-misconduct/

According to the arbitration record, Suarez crashed into a parked car while driving in the area of Kona and Pensacola streets just after 3 a.m. Suarez was off-duty at the time and he told investigators that when he had trouble sleeping he would either go for walks or cruise around the city to put himself at ease

On this occasion, he said, a cat or some other large animal darted out in front of him causing him to swerve into a parked car. He hit the vehicle with such force that his airbags deployed and a nearby dumpster was pushed into a utility pole that sheared off at its base.

Suarez, who said he wasn’t drunk at the time, considered the crash to be a minor motor vehicle accident in part because no one else was injured. He said he would have called it in at the time, but that his cell phone was dead.

Suarez spent a few minutes looking for a pay phone, but instead decided to walk home, a journey that he said would only take about 20 minutes, so that he could get money for a cab, charge his cell phone and report the accident. He said he left his driver’s license and insurance information in his vehicle.

When he finally arrived at his house he said he was so upset that he took a bottle of bourbon from the kitchen and poured himself a few drinks.

Suarez returned to the scene of the accident about 90 minutes after the crash. By that time HPD officers were already there. Suarez failed a field sobriety test and a lieutenant from the Professional Standards Office ordered him to be arrested for driving under the influence and fleeing the scene of an accident. When Suarez was booked at HPD headquarters he had a blood alcohol level that was two times the legal limit.

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Police investigators did not believe that Suarez’s cell phone battery was dead nor that it only took him 20 minutes to walk 2.1 miles from the scene of the accident to his home. They also pointed out that he had plenty of opportunities to report the accident.

Not only did he walk past nine pay phones on his way home, but he also went by HPD’s headquarters and the Chinatown substation where he used to work.

Well...alleged DUI, can't prove it.  It's not about what you did, but how you explain it.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/11/heres-how-one-honolulu-cop-got-his-job-back-after-he-was-fired-for-misconduct/

According to the arbitration record, Suarez crashed into a parked car while driving in the area of Kona and Pensacola streets just after 3 a.m. Suarez was off-duty at the time and he told investigators that when he had trouble sleeping he would either go for walks or cruise around the city to put himself at ease

On this occasion, he said, a cat or some other large animal darted out in front of him causing him to swerve into a parked car. He hit the vehicle with such force that his airbags deployed and a nearby dumpster was pushed into a utility pole that sheared off at its base.

Suarez, who said he wasn’t drunk at the time, considered the crash to be a minor motor vehicle accident in part because no one else was injured. He said he would have called it in at the time, but that his cell phone was dead.

Suarez spent a few minutes looking for a pay phone, but instead decided to walk home, a journey that he said would only take about 20 minutes, so that he could get money for a cab, charge his cell phone and report the accident. He said he left his driver’s license and insurance information in his vehicle.

When he finally arrived at his house he said he was so upset that he took a bottle of bourbon from the kitchen and poured himself a few drinks.

Suarez returned to the scene of the accident about 90 minutes after the crash. By that time HPD officers were already there. Suarez failed a field sobriety test and a lieutenant from the Professional Standards Office ordered him to be arrested for driving under the influence and fleeing the scene of an accident. When Suarez was booked at HPD headquarters he had a blood alcohol level that was two times the legal limit.

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Police investigators did not believe that Suarez’s cell phone battery was dead nor that it only took him 20 minutes to walk 2.1 miles from the scene of the accident to his home. They also pointed out that he had plenty of opportunities to report the accident.

Not only did he walk past nine pay phones on his way home, but he also went by HPD’s headquarters and the Chinatown substation where he used to work.

    That some interesting fairy tale of a story.

but that his cell phone was dead.

Dead phone, how many wives have heard that one?

This reminds me of that cop that was given a "courtesy" ride home by HPD instead of being thrown in the drunk tank,

Bu, not a smidge of corruption in HPD, no sir!

Pensacola and Kona st.s?

How’d he walk past the Chinatown substation ?
That’s a long ass walk.

But it’s how you explain it...

Keep bottle of sealed hard liquor in the car. Cops pulls u over and you've been drinking lots.

Get out and open bottle b4 cop comes to ur window. Chug liquor. No dui and license suspension. But drinking in public instead. Keep drivers license.

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Keep bottle of sealed hard liquor in the car. Cops pulls u over and you've been drinking lots.

Get out and open bottle b4 cop comes to ur window. Chug liquor. No dui and license suspension. But drinking in public instead. Keep drivers license.

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I wouldn't recommend that defense though. Alcohol takes time to take effect and even if one chugged liquor an officer might be able to conduct a sobriety test before the alcohol really kicked in. By the time you get to the station your levels would certainly have risen some but they can still charge you based on the sobriety test alone.

I have heard other better ideas of getting out of a DUI arrest.

This is why police unions are getting such bad raps.

Cops can do what they like because they are the LAW and sometimes make them up as they go. That is why I respect them so much.

Cops can do what they like because they are the LAW and sometimes make them up as they go. That is why I respect them so much.

Being a cop didn't seem to help him much, he still got arrested and charged,

I wouldn't recommend that defense though. Alcohol takes time to take effect and even if one chugged liquor an officer might be able to conduct a sobriety test before the alcohol really kicked in. By the time you get to the station your levels would certainly have risen some but they can still charge you based on the sobriety test alone.

I have heard other better ideas of getting out of a DUI arrest.

Refuse field sobriety test and request blood test.

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Refuse field sobriety test and request blood test.

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Still a risky approach though. Maybe if you get the right judge and a good lawyer.