“The time he’s spent, it’s a rude awakening for anyone.” “I do believe Ethan Couch is not the same person he was when he came to jail,” he said. Couch had created “zero issues” since beginning his jail stint that January. In April 2016, Dee Anderson, Tarrant County’s sheriff, said Mr. Couch was brought back to Texas and placed in juvenile detention, while his case was moved to adult court. Melton, now a paramedic in El Paso, said he was doing multiple breathalyzer tests per week back then and has no recollection of O’Rourke.They were arrested about two weeks later, about 1,200 miles away in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where they had changed their appearances and ditched their identifications. 134 blood alcohol level, well past the legal limit at the time of. But when Melton gave him the breathalyzer test, O’Rourke blew a.
O’Rourke, who had turned 26 the night before, told Melton he was en route to Las Cruces when the wreck happened and claimed he’d only had two beers. “The defendant/driver then attempted to leave the scene,” Carrera wrote, and the witness “turned on his over head lights to warn oncoming traffic and to try to get the defendant to stop.”Īccording to the report, when Carrera asked O’Rourke if he was injured, the officer couldn’t understand what he answered “due to slurred speech.” Seeing O’Rourke’s “glossy eyes” and smelling alcohol on his breath, Carrera asked him to exit the vehicle, and he “almost fell to the floor,” Carrera wrote.Ĭarrera arrested O’Rourke and took him to a police substation, where breathalyzer administrator Cecil Melton, also a former officer with the Anthony Police Department, interviewed the future congressman and presidential contender.
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