Tuesday, May 1 2012 11:47 PM EDT2012-05-02 03:47:46 GMT
Ask Minnesota State Trooper Gordan Shank what's so special about him and he'll say he's just a country boy from Ohio. He is as modest as he is hard-working, but his fellow officers call him a drunk magnet. In
Ask Minnesota State Trooper Gordan Shank what's so special about him and he'll say he's just a country boy from Ohio, but he's earned Mothers Against Drunk Driving's Rookie of the Year award and his coworkers call him a "drunk magnet."
DULUTH, Minn. (KMSP) -
A Minnesota State Trooper was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol when he reported for an in-service training at the State Patrol's district office in Duluth just after 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Trooper Nick Morse has been placed on investigative leave pending the outcome of criminal and internal investigations.
Morse had driven his squad car from his home in Two Harbors, Minn., arriving at the district office for training at 8:10 a.m. A supervisor could smell alcohol on Morse and a field sobriety test was administered.
Morse was arrested by a State Patrol lieutenant and taken to the St. Louis County Jail where he registered an alcohol concentration of .08, which is the legal limit in Minnesota. Morse booked and issued a citation for 4th degree DUI.
"State troopers are dedicated to taking impaired drivers off the road, which makes this incident even more egregious and unacceptable," said Col. Kevin Daly, chief of the Minnesota State Patrol. "We don't tolerate impaired driving, regardless of who is behind the wheel."
Morse has been a state trooper since April of 2009. He has no record of disciplined during his tenure.
