Persistent Storeowner Tracks Man Down for DUI Arrest

Shop ’n Save Owner Gets His Man

On Oct. 6 at approximately 4:02 p.m., officers were dispatched to the on Joseph Street in north for a report of a disorderly man.

When the officers arrived at the Shop ’n Save, the owner of the store claimed that the disorderly man was intoxicated, that he had left his vehicle in the store’s parking lot after the owner had warned him not to drive drunk and that he had began walking toward the nearby St. Josaphat Cemetery on Glass Run Road.

The officers caught up to the disorderly man in the 800 block of Glass Run, where they reported finding him to be disheveled and smelling of an alcoholic beverage. 

The officers also warned the man—identified as Raymond Martin Matelan, 52, of 1069 Old Hills Road in Elizabeth Township—not to drive drunk, instructing him not to return to his vehicle at the Shop ’n Save parking lot until he was sober.

Then, at 5:19 p.m., officers were dispatched back to the 800 block of Glass Run, again at the request of the storeowner, who was already at that scene.

The Shop ’n Save owner said that he followed Matelan to a residence on Glass Run after watching Matelan return to his vehicle, drive erratically in the Shop ’n Save parking lot and almost cause an accident on Glass Run.

After hearing this and observing Matelan, the officers put Matelan through field-sobriety tests, which they reported that he failed. The officers arrested Matelan on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and transported him to Jefferson Regional Medical Center for a blood test. Results of that test are pending.

Matelan was eventually taken back to the residence on Glass Run, where he is currently living. He is also being charged with careless driving.

DUI Arrest on Brownsville Road

On Oct. 15 at approximately 2:51 a.m., a Baldwin Borough police officer observed a vehicle with no headlights on traveling south on Brownsville Road near the Brownsville-Knoedler Road intersection.

The officer pulled the vehicle over near the Brownsville-Hacienda Drive intersection, and upon speaking with the driver of the vehicle—Brian George Dunn, 29, of 228 Bunker Hill Drive in Peters Township—the officer reported smelling an alcoholic beverage. When the officer checked Dunn’s driving record, he learned that Dunn's driver’s license was suspended due to a prior DUI conviction.

The officer put Dunn through field-sobriety tests, which he failed, before also subjecting him to a breath-analyzer test. The officer reported that Dunn failed that test, as well.

The officer arrested Dunn on suspicion of DUI and transported him to Jefferson Regional for a blood test. Results of that test are pending. 

Dunn was eventually released to a friend. Dunn is also being charged with driving with a suspended license and failure to meet general lighting requirements.

UPDATE: The lighting requirements charge was .