Texas: Oklahoma Senator who sponsored bill toughening DWI laws busted for DWI on his last day in office

Howe Texas Police Dept.

Grayson County Jail / Howe Police Department
From KWTV

HOWE, Texas – 05/17/2014 —

An Oklahoma State Senator was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated in Grayson County, Texas, late Thursday night.

According to the Howe Police Department, Oklahoma Sen. Harry Coates, (R – Seminole), was stopped on southbound US 75 near the town of Howe around 11 p.m. Thursday, after a driver reported the vehicle to be driving erratically.

Responding officer made contact with Coates, 63, and reported that he exhibited signs of intoxication and that he could not successfully complete a field sobriety test. Coates then consented to have his blood drawn at a local hospital. The results of that blood test were not immediately available. ….MORE

Oklahoma Sen. Harry Coates, charged with DWI in Texas on his last day in office.

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