A person with a historical past of drunken driving has been arrested on prices of DUI by Aspen Police twice since Saturday, in response to courtroom information.
Frank Safferwich, 53, faces two felony counts of drunken driving as a result of the 2 Aspen arrests are the fifth and sixth DUI prices filed in opposition to him. Beneath Colorado legislation, an individual faces a felony after a fourth DUI arrest.
Safferwich, who was staying an area lodge and introduced police with a Florida driver’s license, first got here to the eye of Aspen police Saturday when he drove the fallacious means down East Cooper Avenue within the downtown core in entrance of an officer, in response to a warrantless affidavit filed in Pitkin County District Courtroom.
After the officer pulled over Safferwich’s 2003 Ford truck, the officer seen Safferwich’s speech was slurred, his eyes had been watery and bloodshot and he smelled like alcohol, the affidavit states. Safferwich stated he’d come from Zane’s Tavern.
“Not an excessive amount of,” he stated when the officer requested how a lot he’d needed to drink. “Two, three, 4.”
A preliminary breath check later confirmed Safferwich’s alcohol content material at 0.19, greater than twice the authorized driving restrict of 0.08, in response to the affidavit. He was taken to the Pitkin County Jail.
Then on Monday, simply earlier than 1 p.m., a person who works within the downtown core known as a drunken driving hotline to report {that a} man who later turned out to be Safferwich was sitting alone in his 2003 Ford truck, had fallen over into the passenger seat after which stumbled out of the car when he acquired up, in response to a second warrantless affidavit filed in Pitkin County District Courtroom.
As well as, the truck was parked dealing with west on the eastbound facet of Important Avenue and was no less than 2 ft from the curb.
“The truck was up to now into the lane of site visitors that the vehicles had been having hassle passing by,” in response to the affidavit.
An officer discovered two full and one empty Fireball whisky shot bottles on the seat of the truck and one other empty within the again, the affidavit states.
Police later discovered Safferwich, who was intoxicated, on the lodge the place he was staying. A good friend instructed police he had bailed Safferwich out of jail Monday morning, then drove his truck to the lodge.
“(The good friend) talked about that Safferwich was not intoxicated at 10 this morning and believed that he has been consuming since then,” the affidavit states.
A prison historical past confirmed that Safferwich was arrested in Pitkin County for DUI in 1994 and thrice within the state of Virginia between March 2014 and December 2015, in response to one of many affidavits.
