Delivery man’s arrest for D-U-Pie?
WOONSOCKET –A Lincoln man was arrested for driving with three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system shortly after his shift ended as a pizza deliveryman early Saturday morning, police said.
Scott C. Bean, 29, of 3 Winter St., Apt. 6, is facing charges of operating under the influence and refusal to submit to a preliminary breath test.
Police said they detained Bean about 2:20 a.m. moments after he parked a 2010 Dodge Calibur behind the restaurant where he works – Park Avenue Pizza. The restaurant had already been closed for more than two hours at the time, according to the operators. Officers were directed to the location by another motorist who followed the vehicle after allegedly seeing it strike a curb and a street sign nearby.
Bean had already exited the vehicle when police made contact with him. He “stumbled up from Vose Street,” said Officer Christopher Rooney. “I immediately noticed the male to be intoxicated.”
Rooney said Bean appeared confused, his speech was heavily slurred and his eyes were watery and bloodshot. The Calibur was registered to Bean’s girlfriend in Douglas, Mass., Rooney said, but Bean confirmed that he had been using it for work, police said.
Park Avenue Pizza proprietor Mikhaiel Yasa said Bean is an occasional part-time driver for the restaurant and he worked “maybe a few hours” on Friday night. But Yasa said it would have been impossible for Bean to be delivering pizzas around the time he was taken into cus- tody because the restaurant closed at midnight. He said Bean delivered his last pizza the night before “maybe 10:40, 10:45.” Yasa said he had no idea why Bean would have pulled the Calibur behind the restaurant after 2 in the morning, although he knew Bean had been using his girlfriend’s car lately.
After The Call contacted Yasa at Park Avenue Pizza for clarification about the situation, Bean reached out to The Call to do so further. He emphasized that he had not been drinking on the job and said he did not have his first drink until about an hour after his shift ended.
He said he simply parked the Dodge at the restaurant.
The Dodge was “parked awkwardly and off angle in the lot of Park Avenue Pizza” when Rooney first encountered Bean, the officer observed.
Bean initially told police he was out “driving around” and “doing shots.”
Bean also “stated he was a delivery driver for Park Avenue Pizza,” Rooney’s report says. “I asked Bean point blank if he was operating the Dodge Calibur. Bean said he was and that he was using the car as he was working.”
On a series of standard field sobriety tests, Bean scored 10 out of 12 cues indicating he was operating under the influence, but police said he refused a preliminary breath alcohol test.
Over an hour later, police said he changed his mind and agreed to allow police to sample his blood alcohol content with a Breathalyzer device at headquarters.
Bean registered a .242 BAC on the first round of the two-phase test, which was taken at 3:23 a.m. That’s more than three times the legal limit of .08 BAC.
Four minutes later, Bean gave another sample that registered .232 BAC.
Bean was released from the Clinton Street lockup the following morning on a summons to answer the charges in the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal on Sept. 21.
Although the OUI was charged against him as a first-offense, Bean’s no stranger to the traffic tribunal. According to the judiciary’s web site, he’s been there five times since 2015 – on four of those occasions for operating without a seatbelt, including two offenses that occurred earlier this year. Once, he was cited for turning without using a signal.
He also appeared in Sixth District Court in January on Woonsocket Police Charges for driving on a suspended license in January.