Nye County D.A. doubles down on DUI

Unwilling to merely crash one vehicle while driving drunk, Nye County District Attorney Robert Beckett crashed two vehicles on the same desert highway six hours apart.

The Review-Journal reports:

Beckett, 49, totaled his county-issued sport utility vehicle in the first rollover accident, which occurred about 1:30 p.m. Sunday on California Route 127 just south of Shoshone, Calif.

Then, after catching a ride back to his home in Pahrump in a tow truck, Beckett headed back out on the same highway in the family van, only to crash again at 7:35 p.m. about 35 miles south of the first accident scene.

The California Highway Patrol officer called to the scene of the second wreck reported smelling alcohol on Beckett's breath.

Sgt. Mike Black, spokesman for the Highway Patrol's Barstow, Calif., area office, said Beckett failed a blood-breath alcohol test and was arrested for drunken driving.

The longtime district attorney was taken to Baker, Calif., 20 miles from the crash site, where he was cited and released into the custody of a friend who came to pick him up, Black said.

You know, lawyers are resilient, but most would probably quit after the first alcohol-fueled car wreck.