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12-Year-Old Charged With DUI in Minnesota

By Michael

When 19-year-old Benjamin Repinski asked someone to drive him home he may have thought he was doing the right thing. After all, he knew he had been drinking and shouldn’t be driving. Unfortunately, the driver who agreed had also been drinking – and was only 12-years-old. On the way home down County Road 12 in Minnesota, she mistook the brake pedal for the gas, veered off the road, and drove through a garden. Repinski then got behind the wheel to drive the two out of the garden and hit a shed, reports CBS News. The homeowners called the police at about 11:30 pm. When police officers arrived on the scene, they asked to see her license, but she didn?t have one. Police were surprised to learn the girl Repinski asked for a ride is only twelve years old...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on August 19, 2010 (boomark / email).