Police: Man Arrested Outside Brownies, Blows .35 BAC

A Chester Springs man who registered .35 on a blood alcohol content test was arrested and charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct early Thursday morning, Lower Merion police told news media on Monday afternoon. 

On May 10 at 1:23 a.m., a employee flagged down a police officer on patrol, after an apparently intoxicated man tried to regain entry into the bar, police said. 

A 29-year-old Chester Springs resident grabbed a member of the Brownies staff in an attempt to get back into the bar, police said. According to the police report, after asking the man to release the employee, the police officer drew his taser and told the man to let the employee go. The man complied, and the officer did not need to use the taser, police said.

The man was taken back to police headquarters, where he took took a blood alcohol content test that registered .35, more than four times the legal limit. He was then taken to , police said.