Former Rep. Cary Allred has had a bit of trouble with driving, the smell of alcohol and the law, once again.
An Alamance County Sheriff's deputy ticketed Allred for reckless driving on June 7, six days after he resigned from the legislature over his conduct at an April session of the House, the Burlington Times-News reports. The report filed by the sergeant from the sheriff's office recounts that he smelled alcohol when he spoke with Allred, who appeared to be wearing pajama pants at 6:45 p.m.
Back on April 27, Allred was stopped by a state trooper for driving 102 mph en route to that evening's House session. He was later ticketed. A report by the House sergeant-at-arms of that evening's session included the accounts of several Republican legislators who said they smelled alcohol on Allred's breath and saw him give an inappropriately long hug to a teenage page from his district. He resigned after the report was released.
In the more recent incident, Allred was observed speeding and weaving off the road and across the center line in a 1955, or 1957 depending on whose description is correct, red Ford Thunderbird. The sheriff's deputy wrote that he recognized Allred from his "political champagne signs."




Re: Enough Allred-y
You make a good point, captainjack, that a lot of people grease the system with a few bucks and also seem to be able to evade penalties for their egregious behavior behind the wheel. I lot of it, I think, is outright bribery but a lot is also just the extended good old boy network and the wish of judges and some law enforcement personnel to have a "friendly reputation" The N&O did a terrific series about a year ago looking into people with long records of DWI and speeding at very high speeds, some cases in excess of 100 mph and never being seriously punished. I expected that there would be a huge public outcry. It seems that there is a substantial portion of our fellow citizens and voters who favor a lax system for fear that they themselves might be inconvenienced by serious law enforcement. It is a very depressing commentary on who we are as a people and what kind of a community we want to live in.