‘I Don’t Want to Blow’ Lost West Des Moines Man Allegedly Tells Police

Public intoxication charges are pending against a West Des Moines man who called police early Thursday morning and reportedly said he knew that he was outside, but that’s all he knew about his whereabouts.

The 911 call came in to Westcom Dispatch shortly after 3 a.m. and Officer Maggie Carrington was dispatched to assist medics after the tracking the cell phone he was using to an address in the 900 block of 78th Place.

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The man, a 19-year-old who lives a few houses down from the address where police found him, told the dispatcher “he was messed up and then started vomiting and disconnected,” Carrington wrote in her report.

The suspect was laying on his back on the sidewalk making sounds as if was going to vomit when Carrington arrived. She reportedly rolled him on his side to prevent choking and held him in that position until medics arrived.

Carrington noted that the suspect smelled strongly of alcoholic beverages, but when she asked him how much alcohol he had consumed, “he just kept repeating I’m sorry.”

The man told Officer Aaron Swenson, who also responded, that he had not been drinking. When Swenson asked if he would be willing to submit to a field sobriety test to prove that, he initially agreed, according to the police report, but then said, “I don’t want to blow” as he was taken to the hospital.

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