Brookfield man charged with DWI

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
BY KATHY FAIRCHILD/Staff writer

Brookfield resident Charles D. Perkins, 34, is in custody at Saline County Justice Facility on a $5,000 cash-only bond in connection with an incident in Marshall June 28.

Perkins, who has two previous convictions for driving while intoxicated and eight arrests for driving on a suspended or revoked driver's license, was stopped by Marshall Police after they received a report of an assault on a Marshall resident, in which Perkins was allegedly involved.

According to the incident report, Marshall police administered field sobriety tests when they detected an odor of intoxicants after they stopped Perkins. When he was tested later at the Marshall police station, he registered a blood alcohol content of 0.24 percent.

The report indicates Perkins told officers he had lost his license for 11 years and had been arrested for DWI twice before.

Perkins pleaded guilty to class A misdemeanor domestic assault in the third degree April 16 in Linn County and is currently one year of unsupervised probation in that case.

Charges contained in reports provided by law enforcement officials are not evidence of guilt. Evidence supporting charges must be presented before a jury, whose duty is to determine if the accused is guilty or not guilty of the charges.

Contact Kathy Fairchild at marshallhealth@socket.net

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I think he should have the book dropped on him make him learn.

-- Posted by arojr on Thu, Jul 2, 2009, at 12:42 AM

the assult they are talking about was at my house to my dad he came over with my friend mike and was cusing us out accusing us of be mean to our friend. my dad told him that he needed to chill and he got all up in my dads face pushed my mom witch was holding my three month old son i got in between them and made him leave we called the police for assult and they had aldready pulled him over

-- Posted by mtshell08 on Wed, Jul 1, 2009, at 4:11 PM

There are three kinds of people in this world

- Those that learn from other's mistakes

- Those that learn from their own mistakes

- Those that never learn

-- Posted by jebbs on Tue, Jun 30, 2009, at 2:56 PM

He needs help learning his lessons as he is not learning from his mistakes.

-- Posted by Dave in MidMO on Tue, Jun 30, 2009, at 12:45 PM