Cops: Lions chief blew more than twice legal limit

By M.L. ELRICK, ERIC SHARP and CARLOS MONARREZ
Free Press Staff Writers

PRUDENVILLE -- Detroit Lions president Tom Lewand failed field sobriety tests, and his blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit in two breath tests administered by Roscommon County Sheriff’s deputies who observed him driving erratically late Friday and arrested him, according to a police report.

Lewand also told deputies he had not had a drink for a year and a half, the report said.

“The driver stated that he was the designated driver,” a deputy wrote, adding that Lewand said he went to the Limberlost bar in Denton Township “to pick a friend up.”

The deputy noted that there was a “strong odor of intoxicants coming from the driver compartment of the vehicle” and that Lewand’s eyes were “glossy and bloodshot.”

The report says Lewand performed a couple of field sobriety tests but did not walk heel to toe, as requested, and could not balance on one leg. He also touched his upper lip when asked to put his finger to his nose.

So they made him quarterback.