NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A Nashville youth services police detective has been arrested on charges including DUI and decommissioned from the department.
Nashville police tell local media that 51-year-old Detective Mike Clark was off duty when Goodlettsville police found him sleeping Sunday in the driver’s seat of his unmarked police car in the parking lot of a convenience store.
Police say Clark smelled like alcohol and said he had struck a median on Vietnam Veterans Parkway, damaging a tire.
They say Clark failed sobriety tests and refused to take a breath test.
Clark has been charged with DUI, gun possession while under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident and violation of the implied consent law.