Posted on 01/08/2015 8:51:48 AM PST by TurboZamboni
A man convicted in 27 drunken driving-related cases in Minnesota has been released to residential placement in Clay County.
Danny Lee Bettcher, 61, was released Dec. 29 after serving about five years in prison for his latest drunken driving-related conviction, said Minnesota Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sarah Latuseck. Prosecutors said he blew through a stop sign on his motorcycle in Otter Tail County while his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit.
Bettcher reportedly holds the state record for the most drunken driving-related convictions at 27. His criminal drunken driving-related record goes back to the 1980s.
Bettcher was released under the Department of Correction's highest level of supervision, during which he'll report to a Becker County probation officer.
Bettcher is being supervised under Intensive Supervised Release, which keeps him on GPS and continuous transdermal monitoring.
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“Prosecutors said he blew through a stop sign on his motorcycle in Otter Tail County while his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit.” I once came upon a man struggling in the middle of the road with both legs broken at the thigh and bones sticking out of his legs, one arm broken between the elbow and wrist, with the radius bone sticking out of the skin and his other wrist broken back and pressed against the lower arm. His motorcycle was still embedded in the front grill of the car he slammed into as he rounded a curve on the wrong side of the road. He smelled strongly of alcohol and tobacco. It was all I could do to get him to lay still while waiting on the ambulance. He even asked for a cigarette! He had gotten skunk drunk not three hundred yards from where he lay. I’ve sometimes thought of that guy and wondered if he ever got on a motorcycle again. It is shuttering to think he may be driving an SUV now in a stupor like he was in that fateful day. He could kill folks ...
The drunks usually live-the innocent sober people die.
I always get a kick out of prisons calling themselves institutions of “correction.” What and who are they correcting? They are PRISONS for locking people up.
You can't do that in California. The plates stay with the car upon transfer. I don't know about MN.
You can’t do that in California. The plates stay with the car upon transfer.
A few years later, my friend got rousted out of bed at 3:00am, it seems the beat up car he had sold a week prior, had been used in a string of armed robberies. The only good thing was, this was in the 80’s, nowadays, the SWAT Team would have shown up.
AZ used to be plates with the car, they switched to plates with the person. Makes it easier for those who personalize, and stops tag surfers.
just insuring more gubmint union jobs.
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