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DUI Driver: CdA Cop Is Superhero

Arrested for DUI, a Coeur d'Alene man spent four months in jail and now says it's the best thing that could have happened to him. By his own account Jeff Eastwood hasn't been all that he could be. “I've had my fair share with the law and I've been roughed up before and I should have been roughed up this time but the guy was patient," said Eastwood. But sometimes a second chance, a real second chance, comes when you least expect it. Eastwood started smoking spice one day. The only way he knows what happened next is because it was recorded on Coeur d'Alene police body cam video. "I started crying believe it or not. I was embarrassed of my own self," said Eastwood. When Couer d'Alene police officer Jacob Pleger found Eastwood he was stopped in the middle of the street and was out of his mind/Aaron Luna, KXLY. More here.

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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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