Former state legislator and former Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Nick Mackey was arrested and charged with drunken driving and with having a revoked license early Sunday, according to a Concord police report.
Mackey is known for a 2007 contentious and unsuccessful campaign for Mecklenburg County sheriff.
The report also suggests that Mackey asked the officer to charge him with a lesser offense because of his previous service as a police officer and tried to delay being given a test to see if he was impaired.
A Concord police officer pulled over Mackey's car near Concord Mills Mall around 2:30 a.m. Sunday after an officer says his silver car drifted out of its lane and turned without signaling.
The responding officer's report says Mackey didn't pull his car over to the side of the road, but stopped in the middle of the travel lane. As a result, according to the report, two patrol cruisers were almost hit by another driver who was ultimately charged with DWI.
The officer said that after Mackey rolled down the window, he could smell "an odor of alcohol coming from the vehicle and a strong mint smell as well. The driver was unsteady on his feet when he got out of the vehicle."
The report also says "the driver had red glassy eyes, odor of alcohol coming from his breath and was rambling with his speech."
At one point, according to the police report, Mackey said he had been a police officer for 14 years. "He asked as a courtesy if I could write him for revoked," the report says.
According to the police report, Mackey refused a portable breath test and any other roadside test. His blood was ultimately taken at the Cabarrus County jail, but a blood-alcohol content was not immediately available.
Mackey was released to a sober person.
