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Gallardo charged with DUI

 
Published April 17, 2013

MILWAUKEE — Brewers RHP Yovani Gallardo was arrested on a drunken-driving charge Tuesday after he was driving on a city highway with a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, authorities said.

Deputies responded about 2 a.m. to a report of a possibly intoxicated driver, Milwaukee County sheriff's spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin said. She said a caller reported seeing a driver repeatedly swerving between lanes, and deputies spotted Gallardo driving alone at 40 mph in a 55 mph zone.

"He was very cooperative," McLaughlin said. "He said he had a couple of beers."

Gallardo had red, glassy eyes, slurred speech and an odor of alcohol, and he failed field sobriety tests, the arrest report said. A breath test registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.22, nearly three times the 0.08 limit at which a person is presumed to be impaired, and the reading was matched by a second breath test after his arrest, authorities said.

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