By Joe Johnson
Appealing as it might be to have a lifetime supply of tacos, an Athens police officer recently turned down such an offer from a drunken man who tried to bribe his way out of an arrest.
Officer Sarah Wexel was monitoring activity in the downtown bar district early the morning of Aug.17 when she saw Armon Sarvghad walking in traffic on East Clayton Street.
The 21-year-old man from Lawrenceville ignored the officer as she tried to get him to use the sidewalk.
Wexel was only going to write Sarvghad a ticket, but when he began yelling and using profane language, “I arrested him for his loud, boisterous, and unbecoming behavior,” the officer indicated in her report of the incident.
As the officer was bringing Sarvghad to the paddy wagon for his trip to jail he asked to be given a break due to him being drunk.
When that failed, “He tried to bribe me to let him go by offering to give me free tacos for the rest of my life,” Wexel wrote in her report.
Sarvghad was charged with public intoxication and pedestrian in a roadway and released about an hour later upon posting two $10 bonds.
$10 bond?!
Man, that's pretty HARSH!!!