What is the name of your state? PA (Live in DC)
I am a 25 year old male graduate student who lives and works in Washington, DC. I was in PA visiting a dear friend of mine over the weekend. One of the nights we went out for some beers and later relocated to one of his co-worker's houses. There we had another beer and a couple people (not myself) were indulging in marijuana. Eventually, my close friend and his brother were walking out to leave and I apparently began to follow but went to grab my shoes. The next thing I remember, I am running through yards and fields away from the house without a clue where I was. All I remember feeling was dread that the people who's house we were at had tried to accoste me. I attempted to call my friends eventually and they did not answer so I tried my girlfriend and eventually my parents which completely threw a new franticness into the situation.
Sufficed to say, I was sitting against a building to rest and try to gather my senses while I talkted to my folks when I noticed a police cruiser in a nearby parking lot. I voluntarily ran to the officers in tears, freaking out. I told them that I had been drinking but not to a point where I would normally be out of my wits and that I had been at someone's house where I suspected foul play. They calmed me a bit and took a breathalizer (BAC ~.16). I was told that they found my wallet in the grass in a neighborhood I had run through, and that they'd received a call that I had been spotted. Actually, the call came from a woman whose house I stopped at for help but darted away from before anyone came.
To bring the story to a close, I was arrested for public drunkeness (the officers were nice and said they had to cause they got a call) and taken to a holding "tank" until the morning when I paid $140 fine and was released. They said that they could not just release me to my friends that night because they were unreachable and I could not state where they lived. Also, I am an out-of-stater so apparently that made a difference. I elected/requested to be taken to the hospital to scan for drugs/fouldplay etc. and while there the attending physician referred to my seemingly lucid state, and said it was unusual for alcohol-related psychoses to wear off in such a short period of time (about 2 hours). All in all, no drugs were found in blood or urine
, and I went back to the holding station until morning.
I am an upstanding, extremely educated, and aspiring medical student without a record, and I am now worried that this unfortunate event will hurt me. I was not "booked" or given court hearings, and the officers said this is similar to a simple traffice ticket in terms of violations. Is this true? Will this incident/fine be something that comes back to haunt me for my doctoral applications, jobs, etc.? Please, if anyone can offer any input at all I would be forever grateful! I apologize for the length of this post.
-T
I am a 25 year old male graduate student who lives and works in Washington, DC. I was in PA visiting a dear friend of mine over the weekend. One of the nights we went out for some beers and later relocated to one of his co-worker's houses. There we had another beer and a couple people (not myself) were indulging in marijuana. Eventually, my close friend and his brother were walking out to leave and I apparently began to follow but went to grab my shoes. The next thing I remember, I am running through yards and fields away from the house without a clue where I was. All I remember feeling was dread that the people who's house we were at had tried to accoste me. I attempted to call my friends eventually and they did not answer so I tried my girlfriend and eventually my parents which completely threw a new franticness into the situation.
Sufficed to say, I was sitting against a building to rest and try to gather my senses while I talkted to my folks when I noticed a police cruiser in a nearby parking lot. I voluntarily ran to the officers in tears, freaking out. I told them that I had been drinking but not to a point where I would normally be out of my wits and that I had been at someone's house where I suspected foul play. They calmed me a bit and took a breathalizer (BAC ~.16). I was told that they found my wallet in the grass in a neighborhood I had run through, and that they'd received a call that I had been spotted. Actually, the call came from a woman whose house I stopped at for help but darted away from before anyone came.
To bring the story to a close, I was arrested for public drunkeness (the officers were nice and said they had to cause they got a call) and taken to a holding "tank" until the morning when I paid $140 fine and was released. They said that they could not just release me to my friends that night because they were unreachable and I could not state where they lived. Also, I am an out-of-stater so apparently that made a difference. I elected/requested to be taken to the hospital to scan for drugs/fouldplay etc. and while there the attending physician referred to my seemingly lucid state, and said it was unusual for alcohol-related psychoses to wear off in such a short period of time (about 2 hours). All in all, no drugs were found in blood or urine
, and I went back to the holding station until morning.I am an upstanding, extremely educated, and aspiring medical student without a record, and I am now worried that this unfortunate event will hurt me. I was not "booked" or given court hearings, and the officers said this is similar to a simple traffice ticket in terms of violations. Is this true?
Will this incident/fine be something that comes back to haunt me for my doctoral applications, jobs, etc.? Please, if anyone can offer any input at all I would be forever grateful! I apologize for the length of this post.-T