Police: Toyota Misses Several Vehicles by Inches

A Trumbull man was arrested for DUI on Main Street June 26 after police responded to a complaint of an erratic driver at around  4:57 p.m.

Brian Hughes, 20, of Ethel Road was charged with DUI, failure to keep drugs in original container and use and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was released on $1,000 bond for a July 5 court date.

Police said an off-duty Fairfield officer was driving an unmarked police vehicle on Main Street when another driver pulled up alongside him and complained about a '94 Toyota operating erratically.

The officer saw the Toyota in the 400-block of Main Street, traveling north in the southbound lane, then drifting back across the center line — just missing several vehicles by inches, police said, adding the Fairfield officer activated his lights and pulled the Toyota over.

The driver, Hughes, appeared to be disoriented and confused, police said, adding he was sweating profusely, shaking and mumbling. He told the officer he had taken Xanax, according to the report.

Police said officers saw two plastic sleeves with blue oblong pills inside the car. Officers patted Hughes down and felt an object, which turned out to be a marijuana pipe in his front shorts pocket, police said, adding another pipe was in his other pocket. Both had residue that smelled like marijuana, according to the report.

Police said the pills were identified as Alprazolam (which is Xanax). 

Hughes was arrested and a search of his vehicle uncovered three small, plastic bags under the driver's seat with contents field testing positive for marijuana; and two multicolored glass marijuana pipes on the floor behind the passenger seat, according to police.

Field tests determined Hughes was under influence, police said, adding he initially agreed then refused to provide a urine sample.