BEDFORD – Two people were arrested Saturday after a Bedford police officer patrolling in the area of 16th and L streets spotted a man walking south on I Street and stumbling from side to side.
The officer said the man was partially leaning over while walking and nearly fell down.
The officer parked his vehicle and approached 47-year-old Jeffery McLeod to check on him.
While speaking to McLeod, the officer said McLeod was intoxicated. He was said by police to be unsteady on his feet with slurred speech and glassy and bloodshot eyes.
McLeod admitted he was intoxicated. He told police he had been at a bar with his wife and they got into an argument and he left. The man said he was walking to Mitchell.
The officer told McLeod that it was unsafe for him to walk to Mitchell in his condition.
He was detained and asked if someone could come to pick him up and transport him home. He called his wife , 41-year-old Beverlye Taylor, of Mitchell.
The officer spoke to Taylor on the phone and advised her of the situation. She said she had been driving around looking for McLeod and would come and pick him up.
When she arrived, the officer noticed Taylor was also intoxicated and had poor manual dexterity, her speech was slow and slurred, and she had an odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from her breath.
Taylor was given a preliminary breath test (PBT) and tested 0.199 percent. She then failed several field sobriety tests.
She was then transported to IU Health in Bedford for a blood draw. Those results are pending.
Taylor was arrested on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
McLeod, who blew a 0.223 on a preliminary breath test, was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.
