Crime & Safety
Cops: He Drove Intoxicated at 62 mph on Post Road
According to Darien Police, this 23-year-old man was not only too intoxicated to drive, he was too sick to be arrested that night, so they applied for a warrant and waited.
A 23-year-old man driving a Mustang was clocked at 62 mph on the Post Road when he passed a patrol car at 12:21 a.m. one night last month, Darien police said.
Paul Hendricks Jr. was so sick when police initially took him into custody that he threw up both in the patrol car and then repeatedly at the Darien police station, according to police reports. So police got him to Stamford Hospital and opted to apply for a warrant for his arrest instead.
The warrant was approved and on Sunday Hendricks turned himself in at the station. He was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol and speeding.
Darien police gave this account (an accusation not proven in court) of the initial incident on Sunday, Oct. 13 and afterward:
Hendricks was driving west on the Post Road in a car with a very noisy exhaust system when he passed the patrol car near Salt Box Lane. The police officer, who had captured Hendricks' speed with a radar device, pursued the speeding car and stopped it at Brookside Drive, just at the Stamford border.
Hendricks told police he had only three beers that night (when he saw police later, he admitted that he had had no dinner that night and had consumed four or five beers, then a shot as he left the East Side Cafe in Norwalk).
He failed field sobriety tests administered to him at the scene.
After his arrest on Nov. 24, Hendricks was released on $260 bond and is scheduled to appear Dec. 4 in state Superior Court in Stamford.
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