Anchorage Officer Charged with DUI, Blood Alcohol 3.5x Limit

0:00It's April 29th, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Anchorage News today, your AI-powered local news. An Anchorage police officer named Charles Bowser, a 41-year-old patrol vet who's been on the force since 2014, just got hit, with a misdemeanor DUI charge for a wild incident back on March 9th. Video from his own patrol car shows him off-duty, but behind the wheel, swerving like crazy at speeds up to 80 miles per hour, smashing into R-Me-N-C. Snowbanks, blowing stop signs, and nearly clipping other cars after grabbing booze from a liquor store. Prosecutors say his blood alcohol level tested more than three and a half times, the legal limit, and cops found empty bottles and shooters scattered. In the vehicle when they found him passed out drunk on some front steps that night, the department put him on administratively right away, and this makes the second DUI charge against an Anchorage officer this year. Another one, back in January, is still playing out in court.

1:01Bowser got a summons instead of cuffs since they waited on test results, and his first court date is set for May 22nd, with an internal. Review coming after that wraps up, highlighting how they're handling these internal messes.