Austin police arrest Texas senator on DWI charge, records show

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas senator from Georgetown was arrested by the Austin Police Department and charged with driving while intoxicated early Tuesday morning.

Online jail records show Charles Jeffrey Schwertner, 52, was booked into the Travis County Jail just after 2 a.m. Tuesday.

According to APD, officers conducted a traffic stop at about 12:46 a.m. at the intersection of Avenue B and West 45th Street. That’s near The Triangle in central Austin. During the interaction, officers arrested Schwertner, police said.

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Schwertner’s Texas Senate bio said the Republican has represented the Texas Senate District 5 since 2013. That district covers a 10-county region including Brazos, Freestone, Grimes, Leon, Limestone, Madison, Milam, Robertson, Walker and Williamson counties.

Read more: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-police-arrest-texas-senator-on-dwi-charge-records-show/

The Legislature is in session.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. He seems... nice. I hope he does his surgeries while sober.

Schwertner was named one of the "Worst Legislators" in Texas by Texas Monthly magazine in 2015 and 2017 calling him “mean-spirited and insecure” and citing an incident where he "silenced an abortion rights witness by slamming his gavel down so hard that it broke the glass tabletop of his desk."

[TexasTowelie]

2. You might want to bookmark this thread.

I believe that one of our regulars on the site knows him and will be able to dish out some more dirt. I know a little about the Schwertner family since I use to drive through the T-intersection town that was named for the family.

[Paladin]

3. Senator Schwertner can afford a first-rate defense attorney.

Multi-generational livestock money.