Andrew Wold, 41, of Bettendorf, could face misdemeanor charges of OWI – first offense and speeding, according to Scott County Jail documents.
Wold was booked into the jail at 7:37 p.m. Wednesday, jail records say. He was released at 9:08 p.m.
The incident Wednesday night
A Bettendorf Police Officer in a fully marked police patrol car stopped at the intersection of State Street and 19th Street shortly after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to arrest affidavits.
The officer saw a black 2009 Chevy Silverado pickup truck “traveling at a high rate of speed” headed east on State Street, and it passed another vehicle. The officer followed the truck about 11 blocks.
“While I was following the vehicle, I was able to pace his speed at approximately 54 MPH in a posted 30 MPH zone,” the officer alleges in affidavits. “While I was behind the vehicle, the defendant stepped on the gas and started to accelerate again.”
The officer initiated a traffic stop near the intersection of State Street and 30th Street, and Wold pulled into a business in the 2900 block of State Street, affidavits show.
Wold, who was driving, had watery, bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and “smelled of ingested alcohol,” police allege in affidavits. He consented to standardized field sobriety tests and “showed multiple signs of impairment.”
“(Wold) refused to provide a breath sample for the preliminary breath test and was placed under arrest. Once back at the station, (Wold) refused to sign any of the implied consent paperwork or provide a breath sample for the Datamaster,” police allege in affidavits.
A Datamaster is an instrument designed to analyze a sample of a person’s breath and determine the breath alcohol concentration in the sample.
According to affidavits, while officers moved the truck Wold had been driving “they discovered the interior door pocket of the driver’s door had been filled with a liquid substance that smelled strongly of an alcoholic beverage along with an empty tumbler with wet residue on the front passenger seat.”
His bond was set at $1,300. Wold is scheduled to appear at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 28 in Scott County Court.
Wold was the owner of the apartment building that collapsed in downtown Davenport on May 28, when three people were killed and others were injured. He and the City of Davenport are named as defendants in numerous lawsuits.
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