BEDFORD – On Saturday, February 24, at 12:22 a.m. Bedford Police Sgt. Faheem Bade was traveling south on M Street near 5th Street when he spotted a white Buick Sedan with only one headlight working and traveling north on M Street in the middle of the road.
The driver, when he saw the police vehicle, went back into the right lane of travel and then pulled into Bandana’s parking lot at 5th and M Streets. Sgt. Bade activated his emergency lights to stop the driver. The male driver exited the vehicle and attempted to go inside the bar.
The driver was 33-year-old Rex Luttrell of Oolitic.
Sgt. Bade said Luttrell smelled of alcohol, his balance was unsteady, and his speech was slurred.
Luttrell said he had just left Shorty’s Bar & Grill and had a few drinks.
Luttrell failed several field sobriety tests. He submitted to a portable breath test and had a blood alcohol content of 0.164.
Luttrell was detained on charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated per se, OWI endangerment, and transported to the Lawrence County Jail.
Luttrell admitted to drinking four double whiskeys and two shots of Tequila while at Shorty’s Bar & Grill and was going to Bandanas to meet some friends who were going to drive him home.
