Baldwin Borough Police Briefs (July 5-11)

DUI, Part I

On July 9 at approximately 1:51 a.m., a officer stopped a vehicle in the 5300 block of Youngridge Drive in the for traffic offenses.

The officer reported that the motorist did not obey a stop sign at the nearby intersection of Knoedler and Keeport drives and did not signal for a right turn onto Keeport.

When the officer approached the vehicle, he reported detecting a strong odor of alcohol emanating from it. The officer put the vehicle’s driver—Nina Marie Demus, 30, of 5359 Youngridge, Apt. 5—through a breath-analyzer test, which she failed, according to police.

The officer also reported that Demus failed parts of a field-sobriety test before arresting her on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Police transported Demus to Jefferson Regional Medical Center for a blood test. Results of that test are pending.

In addition to the DUI charge, police are charging Demus with careless driving and with driving a vehicle with material on it that does not allow someone to see the inside of that vehicle (windshield obstruction).

DUI, Part II

On July 11 at approximately 12:52 a.m., Baldwin Borough police officers responded to a call from the 100 block of Marc Drive that an unwanted male visitor was refusing to leave the front-door area of a residence there.

As the officers were en route to that residence, they came across a vehicle that matched the description of the man’s vehicle that, according to the caller, had left the Marc residence while the officers were en route.

The officers followed the vehicle in question until it returned to the driveway of the same Marc residence, and the driver parked.

The officer filing the report said that the driver approached him and a second officer, and they confirmed that he was the man in question.

The reporting officer said that the man—David R. Taylor, 56, of 108 Sheridan Ave. in Verona Borough—appeared to be intoxicated and smelled of alcohol. That officer also reported that his fellow officer found several cans of beer inside Taylor’s vehicle.

The reporting officer said that Taylor failed field-sobriety tests before he arrested him on suspicion of drunk driving.

The Marc resident who reported Taylor to police said that she had met Taylor earlier in the night at Pittsburgh’s Sandcastle attraction but did not invite him to her residence.

Police transported Taylor to Jefferson Regional for a blood test. Results of that test are pending.

Police reported that Taylor admitted to urinating in the Marc resident’s driveway.

In addition to the DUI charge, police are charging Taylor with careless driving stemming from actions of his vehicle while police were following him.