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Associated Press - February 3, 2010 1:15 PM ET
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An arrest report says a Sullivan County deputy had to be placed in a K-9 cage after he became belligerent during a DUI arrest.
The Kingsport Times-News reports 47-year-old Samuel Monroe Bledsoe was fired from the sheriff's office on Monday following an internal investigation of the incident.
The Tennessee State Highway patrol report says Trooper David Osborne arrested Bledsoe on Friday after a Tennessee Department of Transportation HELP truck driver called to report a driver who was "vomiting on himself and seemed very intoxicated."
Osborne said he had to explain one field sobriety test 18 times to Bledsoe. He performed poorly.
Bledsoe repeatedly identified himself as a Sullivan County deputy and asked to be taken home. Troopers told him they couldn't do that.
Information from: Kingsport Times-News, http://www.timesnews.net
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