Nearly three months after a Georgia State Patrol trooper finished training academy school, he lost his job and faces a DUI charge.
Deionte Marlon McAllister, 24, of Suwanee, finished trooper school Nov. 11 and was assigned to Post 47 in Forest Park at the time of his arrest, according to the Georgia Department of Public Safety.
About 3 a.m. Saturday, McAllister and two others were in a maroon Ford Crown Victoria at the intersection of Peachtree Road and East Shadowlawn Avenue when a GSP trooper noticed the men were acting strangely, according to a report.
The report said McAllister was revving the car as the front-seat passenger, Michael Norman, was hanging out of the window without a seat belt.
A back-seat passenger, Craig Wright, opened his door as the car was “lurching forward” to get out and talk to someone inside a Ford Mustang, according to the report. The Mustang was also revving, but not in a “reckless manner,” the officer noted.
McAllister, according to the report, “held (the car’s) brakes and was spinning its rear tires and lurching forward.”
The officer pulled over McAllister’s car after he was following another car too closely near Piedmont Road and immediately identified himself as a fellow trooper, reporting officer J. Pyland wrote in the report.
Pyland also said he smelled a “strong odor of an alcoholic beverage” on McAllister, who admitted he’d visited the Dive Bar and then Hangovers. McAllister said he’d had a drink about 1 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., according to the report.
Pyland arrested McAllister after he failed a field sobriety test. Norman was given a “no seat belt” citation.
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