The Ascent

Michael Kruse: The 1993 DUI arrest of Jim Greer started as a 911 call from a woman in a drunken panic.

A police officer responded to a Shell station in Palm Bay shortly before 4:30 one morning that June. The woman stepped out from behind the building and into the light by the pay phone. Wet streaks of mascara ran down her face.

The officer asked her what had happened. She wouldn't say. He asked her again.

A white Chrysler convertible whipped into the parking lot. The officer recognized the driver as Greer, a city council member, and he smelled like booze.

Greer looked at the officer and the woman and asked the woman where she'd been. He told her he'd been worried and looking for her everywhere.

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