Brookline police said an accused drunk driver was found with marijuana and someone else’s credit card and out-of-state identification during his arrest last week.
Eric Andrew Raposo, 24, of 110 Malwood Ave., Dracut, was arrested on Jan. 5 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, possession and retaining a lost credit card, weaving between the lanes and driving a vehicle with defective equipment. He was also issued a $100 civil fine for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, police said.
Police said that Raposo was driving his truck westbound on Route 9 at about 2 a.m., and was weaving across the road when an officer stopped him in a cruiser. The officer reported that Raposo appeared to have a “glazed confused look about him” and could smell an odor of alcohol.
There was also a woman asleep in the truck’s passenger seat, and she awoke during the traffic stop, according to a police report.
Raposo told police he was headed to Lowell, and an officer began a series of field sobriety checks. Police asked Raposo about his educational background before the test.
“I then asked him if he had graduated high school and he stated no. I asked him what was the last grade he completed and he stated twelfth grade,” according to police.
Based on the results of the sobriety tests, Raposo was arrested for drunk driving and booked at police headquarters.
During a search of Raposo’s truck, police found a sandwich bag containing what they said was marijuana, plus four empty 12-ounce cans of Heineken beer, along with a fifth can that was unopened.
Police said they also found a coin purse in Raposo’s truck that contained a Rhode Island driver’s license and other cards with another person’s name on them. Raposo told police he found the items and notified his boss, but didn’t make any further effort to return the items to their rightful owner.
A police dispatcher contacted the owner of the cards, who said he lost the ID and other property during the post-Christmas snowstorm.
The owner said there was also $100 in cash in the purse, and that someone tried using a credit card from the purse on a purchase of $186 on Jan. 4. The credit card was reported missing on Dec. 28, according to police, but there was no cash.
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