CT security officer arrested for DUI
STRATFORD CT November 2 2018 – A Shelton school security officer was driving his young daughter around trick or treating while he was drunk, police said.
Michael Barrett, 47, of Woodcrest Avenue, was charged Wednesday night with risk of injury to a child, operating under the influence and failure to drive right.
He was being held in lieu of $20,000 bond.
Police said Barrett works as a school security officer at Booth Hill School in Shelton and in the Trumbull school system.
On Wednesday night, police said they were called to Nichols and North avenues for a car accident.
Police said Barrett had been driving his 12-year-old daughter, who was in a Halloween costume, around the neighborhood so that she could go trick or treating when he struck a car driven by a woman who was doing the same thing with her children.
Police said Barrett smelled strongly of alcohol and admitted he had six drinks. They said he was arrested after failing a field sobriety test. His daughter was turned over to a relative.
Barrett subsequently was found to have a blood/alcohol content of .191 or more than twice the legal limit, police said.
While in custody police said Barrett continued to loudly question why he had been arrested.
“You arrested a tax payer but let 20 illegals go,” they said he complained.
New Haven Register
