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Smith OVI: ‘Aw, come on, trooper’
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LISBON — He was up for re-election.
He may have talked to the trooper’s boss once or twice.
He small-talked about recent Cleveland school violence.
And he pleaded for a favor.
Columbiana County Sheriff David L. Smith took several approaches with a state trooper in trying to get out of his Thursday OVI arrest.
Smith was stopped on Interstate 70 in Guernsey County about 9:30 p.m. Video of the arrest was received by The Vindicator on Wednesday and can be viewed at www.vindy.com.
All of Smith’s pleas measured nothing on the trooper, S.W. Bayless — except about how things would work in Columbiana County.
“Can’t you just let me go home?” Smith can be heard clearly asking on the video.
Bayless asked, “Can you do that in Columbiana County?”
“Yes,” Smith said.
“You just stop people and don’t test them and then you let them go?” asked Bayless in an inquisitive tone.
“If it was me, yes,” Smith said.
For more, see Thursday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com