(La Porte County, IN) - A La Porte County Police officer stopped at a bathroom to allow a freshly arrested driver to relieve his bladder of the alcoholic beverages he insisted he had not consumed.

 

Keven Putnam, 36, is charged with operating while intoxicated.

 

According to police, officers before 7 p.m. on Saturday responded to a report of a car swerving all over the roadway and nearly striking trees while northbound on Johnson Road.

 

During a traffic stop in the Trail Creek area, police said Putnam expressed his support for one of the candidates for mayor.  He also insisted he had not been drinking when asked more than once about the alcohol detected on his breath.

 

Police said his blood alcohol level on a portable breathalyzer test was more than two times the .08 percent legal limit.  He was arrested for refusing to submit to a certified test.

 

While transporting Putnam to the La Porte County Jail, police said he was so convincing about his urgency to use a restroom for the officer to stop at the Speedway station at U.S. 20 and Indiana 35.

 

After he finished, Putnam was placed back in handcuffs then admitted consuming alcoholic beverages earlier in the evening at a bar in La Porte.

 

Putnam was also linked to the excessive use of a horn on a car in a Michigan City neighborhood earlier in the day.  He was celebrating, perhaps, judging by his response when asked why he honked his horn so much.

 

According to police, he told the officer “I’m a Joe Biden supporter.”

Biden is early in the third year of his first term as president of the United States.