DUI suspect showed up drunk at hearing, police sayTuesday, August 30, 2005
By Rebekah Scott, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Word to the wise: If you ever have to go to a hearing on a drunk driving charge, don't go drunk.
And if you're picking up your buddy at his DUI hearing, don't drink beforehand.
This advice comes too late to help two Westmoreland County men who appeared at District Judge Mark Mansour's Hempfield office Friday morning.
State police said Hunker resident Homer O. Barnhart, who is accused of drunken driving, evidently fortified himself in advance for his court appearance. "He basically showed up at court visibly intoxicated," Trooper Kirk Reese reported. So the trooper arrested him again, this time for public drunkenness.
Meantime, Thomas E. Stairs of Hunker showed up in Barnhart's car to drive him home.
Stairs, troopers say, was drunk too. He was arrested and charged with drunken driving, driving carelessly and driving while under a DUI-related license suspension.Both men will appear again before Mansour for hearings on the new charges.
Bold mine.