According to a State Highway Police report, a Myrtle Beach Police officer was arrested for driving under the influence as well as open container after he overturned his vehicle.
The police report News13 was able to obtain via a Freedom of Information Act request says the incident happened on February 5 at around 10 p.m. on Postal Way which is near Gardner Lacey Road.
The report says the responding State Highway Patrolmen, Captain Wilbert Wilks, smelled a strong odor of alcohol coming from the victim of the crash.
An off duty Coastal Carolina University Officer told Wilks he witnessed the victim of the crash exit his flipped vehicle through the window and that the victim appeared intoxicated, according to the report.
The report says the victim of the accident, Ricky Norris, age 29, provided a driver’s license and Myrtle Beach Police Department identification to Wilks.
The report states Norris admitted to drinking during the night stating “he had three beers” to Wilks.
Wilks states within the report that “several open beer cans” were found within Norris’s vehicle.
Norris failed an on scene sobriety test and was arrested and taken to J. Reuben Long, according to the report.
On the way to the jail, the report states that Norris become sick and vomited on himself as well as Wilks’s patrol car.
The report states that at J. Reuben Long, Norris refused to take a breath sample.
According to J. Reuben Long’s booking website Norris was released at 11:40 a.m. on February 6th.
Lieutenant Joey Crosby with the Myrtle Beach Police Department says Norris has been suspended without pay.