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Tue Apr 12, 2016, 01:29 PM Apr 2016

Illinois state trooper pleads guilty to DUI while on duty

An Illinois State Police trooper who authorities said was intoxicated when he responded to crash on Interstate 88 last year pleaded guilty Monday to DUI, according to Kane County prosecutors.
Trooper Paul Zurn, 34, agreed to a sentence of one year of court supervision in exchange for a guilty plea to misdemeanor DUI ...

Zurn "was observed by other troopers to be unsteady on his feet, and a bottle containing alcoholic liquor was found in his squad car,"
Zurn refused to submit to a portable breath test and standardized field sobriety tests and also refused to submit to a Breathalyzer test ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/crime/ct-state-trooper-guilty-of-dui-0413-20160412-story.html

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