Mississippi House of Reps Member Has Some Good DUI Excuses

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JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - House Speaker Pro Tempore Greg Snowden was arrested and charged with DUI refusal Thursday afternoon after he rear-ended a car on Highway 39 North in Meridian.

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Once Snowden was at the station, he refused to take a breath test. He was booked around 3:00 p.m.

He has since been released. Officials did not release his bond amount.

According to Public Information Officer Sgt. Dareall Thompson, with the Meridian Police Department, a caller claimed that a person matching Snowden’s description had gotten out of his car at one point and stumbled into a business.

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When reached by phone, Rep. Snowden said he was on his way home from a a lunch in Jackson when he rear-ended the other vehicle, less than a mile from his home.

When asked, he said he had one beer at Hal and Mal’s during a Spay and Neuter of Mississippi event.

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He said he was watching Twitter updates on the Kavanaugh hearings.


“Very irresponsibly, I was looking at the dang Twitter feed.” said Snowden.

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Police were called and when they arrived, they asked him to walk the line for a sobriety test. Snowden says he’s had knee surgery and therefore “wobbled all over the place”.

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He was asked to take a blood alcohol test at the police department, but he declined the test saying every attorney he knows has always mentioned that it’s best to refuse them.


"Maybe that was a mistake, I don’t know,' Snowden added.

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