Police arrest DWI lawyer for driving drunk

A PROMINENT D- W-I LAWYER FINDS HIMSELF IN NEED OF A GOOD ATTORNEY. THE ALBUQUERQUE LAWYER MA...  More »

A PROMINENT D- W-I LAWYER FINDS HIMSELF IN NEED OF A GOOD ATTORNEY. THE ALBUQUERQUE LAWYER MAKES HIS LIVING DEFENDING DRUNK DRIVERS. BUT COPS SAY HE WAS DRUNK HIMSELF WHEN HE WAS INVOLVED IN A HIT AND RUN LAST NIGHT. CRIS ORNELAS IS LIVE AT APD HEADQUARTERS WITH THE STORY YOU'LL SEE ONLY ON FOUR. DWI OFFICERS HERE SAY ATTORNEY JOHN HIGGINS GOT ABUSIVE WHEN THEY ARRESTED HIM FOR DRUNK DRIVING LAST NIGHT. THEY SAY HE THREATENED TO GO AFTER THEIR BADGES FOR ARRESTING HIM. IT WAS JUST AFTER SIX LAST NIGHT WHEN POLICE WERE CALLED TO THIS OLD TOWN NEIGHBORHOOD. PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE TOLD COPS THEY'D SEEN A MAN HIT A CURB SO HARD IT BLEW OUT A TIRE ON HIS 2004 MERCEDES. THEN THE MAN WALKED AWAY. POLICE FOUND HIM LESS THAN A BLOCK AWAY. THEY SAY 65 YEAR OLD JOHN HIGGINS REEKED OF BOOZE AND INSISTED HE WAS NOT DRIVING. WE WENT TO HIGGINS LAW OFFICE TODAY... WE WERE TOLD HE WASN'T THERE. POLICE SAY HIGGINS WAS VERY ANGRY AND VERBALLY ABUSIVE. WE SPOKE TO A MAN WHO LIVES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND CONFIRMS THE COPS VERSION OF EVENTS. HE'S ASKED US NOT TO SHOW HIS FACE. 'he was cussing pretty loud enough for me to hear him inside''i heard all kinds of screaming and yelling and i saw them out there yelling he's not drunk and he wasn't driving... Belligerently'IN THE REPORT COPS SAY HIGGINS THREATENED THEIR JOBS. 30:42-30:53 'the driver did make some comments to the officers that were somehow going to lose their job or that he was going to report them to the fbi' POLICE SAY HIGGINS REFUSED TO DO ROAD SIDE SOBRIETY TESTS OR A BREATH TEST SO HE WAS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED DWI. HE WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENT. WE CHECKED HIGGINS RECORD AND FOUND HE WAS CHARGED WITH DWI BACK IN 2001. IT'S ONE OF THE  « Less