New Hampshire man faces sixth drunken driving charge after arrest in Lexington
A 50-year-old New Hampshire man is facing his sixth drunken driving charge after being found asleep Thursday afternoon in a car parked in the breakdown lane on Route 128 southbound in Lexington, State Police said.
Timothy Converse of Laconia was wearing an ankle monitoring device and his license had been suspended. He told troopers he was on parole in New Hampshire after serving two years of a five-year sentence for his fifth drunken driving conviction, State Police said in a statement.
A trooper who noticed Converse’s car at about 5:30 p.m. stopped to check on his well-being and found him asleep. The trooper allegedly had difficulty waking Converse up, smelled alcohol on his breath, noticed that he had bloodshot, glassy eyes, and found that he had a hard time answering questions and even standing up.
Converse was arraigned today in Concord District Court on charges including operating under the influence of liquor, sixth offense, operating without a license, and possession of an open container of alcohol in a car.
A not-guilty plea was entered on his behalf, and he was ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing slated for Monday, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex district attorney’s office said.
Jim Van Dongen, a spokesman for the New Hampshire Department of Safety, which oversees the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles, said in a phone interview that Converse’s driving record will not be available until Monday.
Van Dongen said the record will run to more than 10 pages.
“It’s going to be pretty big,’’ he said.
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