{"id":631794,"date":"2025-12-14T11:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631794\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:18:20","slug":"arrest-made-of-suspected-drunk-driver-who-blew-almost-five-times-the-legal-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631794\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made of suspected drunk driver who blew almost five times the legal limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shocking arrest was made after a suspect blew almost five times the legal limit last night in Co Armagh<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_2d8d76\">Rob Currell<\/strong> GAU audience writer<\/p>\n<p>09:36, 14 Dec 2025Updated 09:43, 14 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_GettyImages-1463852165.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Lamont was told he was being placed under arrest and started to resist with the cops who struggled to restrain him, the court heard.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A suspect was arrested last night<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Lurgan Local Policing Team made an <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/psni\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">arrest <\/a>last night (Saturday) following a report of drink driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The suspect allegedly blew 159mg per 100ml of breath &#8211; which police said is almost five times over <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" tabindex=\"0\"\/>the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They were subsequently arrested for Driving with Excess Alcohol and police said the suspect will face their day in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/psni\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">PSNI<\/a> made the announcement on a Facebook account as part of Op Seasons Greetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">here<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=1342b3be-3db3-461a-a6b4-c60bfcaa13da&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"sign up to our daily newsletterLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shocking arrest was made after a suspect blew almost five times the legal limit last night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[188,1621,1144,1618,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-631794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-lurgan","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-psni","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115717651289914508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}