Crime & Safety
Beverly Man Blames Aftershave For Blood-Alcohol Reading
An attorney for Timothy Burt, 53, said aftershave had set off the wearable device he was ordered to wear after a drunk driving arrest.
BEVERLY, MA -- An attorney for a Beverly man who was ordered not to drink or use drugs after his third arrest for drunken driving says aftershave, not liquor, caused a wearable monitoring device to register a blood alcohol content of 0.02. Timothy Burt, 53, had been ordered to wear the device after he was arrested in Topsfield earlier this year. While the reading was below the legal limit to operate a vehicle in Massachusetts, the reading violated the conditions put on Burt's release.
"I think this is an issue of the...device, not my client," Burt's attorney, Courtney Joy, told an Ipswich District Court judge Monday. According to the Salem News, which first reported this story, a judge didn't buy the story and ordered Burt be held until his trial, which could start December 17.
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