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The Thin Blue Line

By Lawrence Taylor

 The latest from the "Who guards the guardians?" department: N.J. Police Looks the Other Way After Fellow Trooper Drinks and Drives Trenton, NJ.  April 25 — It had all the makings of a routine motor vehicle stop. Police officer Ronald Gorneau spotted a silver Toyota swerving and pulled it over. The driver, Sheila McKaig, admitted she had drunk "a lot" before getting behind the wheel, according to the incident report. Then she told Gorneau she was a state trooper, and the stop in Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, was no longer routine. Instead of being charged, McKaig was driven to the township's police station, where fellow troopers picked her up. It was not an isolated incident.  In fact, it was the third time in three months in early 2008 that an off-duty McKraig was stopped by Hamilton police after drinking, according to a State Police document...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on April 25, 2010 (boomark / email).