Red bank police
MARK KAYLOR DUI ARRESTS 2012 – October 2014Total DUI arrests: 303Guilty: 165Dismissed: 64Active cases: 74SIMILAR CPD OFFICER’S DUI ARRESTS 2012 – October 2014Total DUI arrests: 247Guilty: 168Dismissed: 41Active cases: 38Sources: Red Bank City Court, Hamilton County Sessions Court, Hamilton County Criminal CourtHOW IT WORKSHow can a driver whose blood alcohol content is within the legal limit be arrested?Mobile breathalyzers aren’t admissible in court in Tennessee because they’re inaccurate, so most police officers don’t even carry them in their patrol cars.Instead, they rely on physical field sobriety tests to judge the driver’s level of intoxication. Based on those tests the officer makes essentially a judgment call on whether to arrest the driver.In the case of the Red Bank Police Department, the officer and suspect then go back to the jail or the police station and perform an Intoxilyzer test there. Intoxilyzer tests are admissible in court because they are more accurate.
Even though Matt McQuiddy hadn’t taken a drink or had a smoke in 24 hours, he got a little nervous when a Red Bank police officer asked him to step out of his car during a late-night traffic stop in April 2013.
McQuiddy had just driven under a bridge on Signal Mountain Road — the lanes shifted and he had to swerve to stay in the lines — when Officer Mark Kaylor pulled behind him and flipped on his blue lights. McQuiddy stopped at a gas station across from the entrance to Baylor School around 1:30 a.m.
Kaylor put McQuiddy through a battery of sobriety tests — walk the line, stand on one foot, put your head back, close your eyes and count to 30. When it was over, McQuiddy felt good. He was sober, so he had to pass, he thought.
Then Kaylor told him to turn around.