Carol Ann Cliche, now 41, a sister of former Kennebunk police court officer Pat Giles, was the driver of a car that struck pedestrian George Hynes, now 53, as he was crossing the street with an armful of groceries. We figure we're going to be given the proper information by another officer. Eaton's assertion does not square with lab results obtained by the Journal Tribune from Emerson and authenticated by the Department of Human Services health and environmental lab. Lab results show Cliche had a blood alcohol level of .126 on the first intoxilyzer test and that she refused to take a second test. Flint said he would like to give the department the benefit of the doubt, but finds it difficult to conclude he wasn't lied to.
Standard procedure is to administer the test twice and average the results.
Flint said officers have several options if someone refuses to take an intoxilyzer test a second time. An alternative is to ask the individual to submit to a balloon breath test or to give a sample of their blood, he said. Officers may compel a test if the accident involved injury, he said. We have held people down before in order to get a blood sample. Every minute that goes by, the blood alcohol level drops.