Ex-State Sen. Dave Jaye
Dave Jaye, the controversial former state senator who was the only only member of the Michigan Senate ever to be removed from office by his colleagues, and who struggled for years with excessive drinking, is in trouble again, The Macomb Daily reports.
Jaye was arrested Sunday night for disorderly conduct after getting into an apparent, drunken confrontation with a jogger on the Macomb Orchard Trail in Washington Township, Chad Selweski writes. No one was harmed, police say.
Selweski, a politics reporter since 1985, writes
According to the Macomb County Sheriff’s Department, Jaye at the time smelled of alcohol, was slurring his speech and looked “sloppy” when he was detained by deputies near Campground Road and Van Dyke. He was riding a bike with beer cans in his backpack when he had a verbal confrontation with the jogger and said: “Don’t make me come after you.”
Jaye refused to take a portable breathalyzer test, so his blood-alcohol level at the time is unknown. Michigan’s disorderly conduct law includes provisions for evidence that a person may have been intoxicated, based on what the arresting officers witnessed.
Jaye was removed from the Senate in 2001 for drunken, assaultive behavior at a gas station. He went overseas for a while to teach and more recently moved to Florida.
He returned to Macomb County recently to fix up a home in Washington Township, according to the paper.
