Driver held after refusing breath test
Published: Mon, Sep. 08, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Mon, Sep. 08, 2008 01:02AM
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closeDURHAM -- A Raleigh man with a history of drunken driving convictions was jailed over the weekend after police found his car, lights flashing, stopped in the middle of a Durham roadway.
Gakunda Mburu, 33, of 6200 Shanda Drive, was charged with habitual impaired driving, driving while impaired and driving with a licensed revoked. He was arrested early Saturday after police found him in his 1999 Mercedes Benz on Sherwon Road. The car's lights were flashing, and the key was in the ignition; Mburu refused to take an alcohol breath test, according to police reports.
Mburu's driver's license had been revoked because of three prior drunken driving convictions in North Carolina stretching back to 1998, police reports said. He was held in lieu of $100,000 bail and will be released to police in Arlington County, Va., which has issued a felony warrant for his arrest, according to police reports.
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