California prosecutors welcome ‘auto-generated’ language for Paul Pelosi drug indictment
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Prosecutors in Napa County, Calif., on Wednesday dropped a “joint” drug charge in the DUI complaint against Paul Pelosi after his arraignment on a pair of misdemeanor charges in a crash that wrecked two vehicles and injure the other driver.
The criminal complaint, obtained Tuesday, alleged that Pelosi injured the other driver “while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and under their combined influence.”
But prosecutors have confirmed they allege he drove under the influence of alcohol on May 28, not that he had a drug in his system, as the document states.
Pelosi’s attorney, Amanda Bevins, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday afternoon, “I think the drug reference is part of the statutory language of the complaint.”
PAUL PELOSI PLEAS NOT GUILTY TO CHARGES TWO MONTHS AFTER CRASHING PORSCHE IN CALIFORNIA
The Napa County District Attorney’s Office agreed with that characterization Wednesday.
“He’s right,” Assistant District Attorney Paul Gero told Fox News Digital. “It’s an autogenerative language generated in the complaint. Our theory is alcohol.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi poses for a photo after a DUI arrest in California.
(Napa County Department of Corrections)
Officers allegedly found Pelosi sitting in her damaged 2021 Porsche, slurred and with “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her breath” after a crash near the intersection of California Route 29 and Oakville Cross Road.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi.
(Photo by Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images))
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Investigators later determined he had a blood alcohol content of 0.082%.
Both Pelosi and the other driver, identified only as John Doe, declined medical treatment at the scene, but Doe told Napa County prosecutors on June 2 that he had begun to experience pain in his upper arm right, right shoulder and neck the day after the accident. . He also complained of headaches and said it was difficult to lift things with his right arm, according to the documents.
