A young man from Orange should be a teacher. He could instruct people what not to do when being investigated for DWI. His actions included grabbing at the officer’s gun.
The man also asked the officer for his beer and his Juul electronic smoking device.
And on the way to the jail, he got his handcuffed arms stuck between
Officer D.B. Mulhollan reported he went to the 3800 block of the Interstate 10 access road Lutcher Drive about 9 p.m. Thursday. He saw a broken utility pole and a 2016 white Dodge Ram pickup truck in the ditch.
The man told the officer his friend was driving and he was the passenger. During an intoxication field test in which the man had a hard time standing up, the officer asked him if he hit his head on the steering wheel. The man replied, “yes.” The officer then said he could not have hit the steering wheel if he was the passenger.
When the officer asked the man to use his eyes to follow the officer’s fingertip, the man reached out a finger and touched the officer’s finger. He asked the officer which two animals he needed to choose.
At one point, the man grabbed at the officer’s gun. The officer twisted his wrist and pushed him back. When the man wouldn’t put his hands behind his back to be handcuffed, the officer “threw” him “to the ground.”
Mulhollan reported he put the man in his patrol vehicle. On the way to the county jail, the man tried to get his cuffed hands from behind his back to his front. He got his cuffed arms stuck between his legs. He told the officer he was trying to move his hands so he could wash his truck.
22-year-old Sean Graham Langele of Orange faces a state jail felony charge of attempt to take a weapon from an officer, and a Class A misdemeanor of driving while intoxicated.
-Margaret Toal, KOGT-
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