Published: 10/25/2007
Off-duty cops' tip leads to man's sixth DUI arrest By Mike Stucka Staff writer
IPSWICH - When off-duty Ipswich police officers spotted a driver swerving over the road, they helped their colleagues arrest a Woburn man on his sixth drunken-driving charge.
Scott B. Boland, 43, was being held on $50,000 bail last night at Middleton Jail, said Ipswich police Sgt. Paul Mikas. Boland reportedly had an open pint of whiskey with him at 2 p.m.
"The first OUI we've been able to confirm was in 1981," Mikas said. "This is exactly what the law's written for, to get someone like this off the road. This guy will never learn."
Boland is expected to be arraigned this morning in Ipswich District Court in Newburyport.
Boland's blue Buick LeSabre was pulled over by Patrolman Joseph Perna on Haywood Street. Boland also faces charges of open container violation and marked lanes violation.
Off-duty Ipswich police officers Eric Copithorne and Matthew Bodwell called their station to report seeing Boland weaving, accelerating and decelerating behind their car on Topsfield Road.
Mikas said Boland's most recent drunken-driving arrest came in 2000. In 2005, the state Legislature passed Melanie's Law, which increases penalties for drunken driving, particularly for repeat offenders.
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