VIENNA, Ga. - A south Georgia mayor is charged with speeding and D-U-I after being arrested over the weekend -- his second drunken-driving arrest in four years.
Dooly County Sheriff Van Peavy Junior says a deputy stopped 64-year-old Dawson Mayor Robert Albritten early Sunday. He says the mayor was driving 90 miles per hour in a 55-mile-per-hour zone and that the mayor tested point-one-one percent on a breathalyzer test. That's point-zero-three percent above the state's legal limit.
The sheriff says Albritten was held in the county jail for about five hours and released.
A court hearing is scheduled for March 19th.
Albritten pleaded guilty to charges of D-U-I and following too closely in January, 2003, after his car crashed into another vehicle and a woman was injured.
A judge fined him 650 dollars and sentenced him to 24 hours in jail, a year of probation and 40 hours of community service.
The 2003 D-U-I charge came amid allegations that Albritten -- a funeral director and former insurance salesman -- had falsified life insurance forms for ten personal care home residents who either did not know or understand that they were purchasing insurance policies.
In February 2005, he was sentenced to 12 months probation and fined nine-thousand dollars under a plea bargain in which 12 felony counts were dismissed and nine were reduced to misdemeanor charges of general violations of the state insurance code. He pleaded NO contest to the nine charges.
Albritten was re-elected as mayor in the Terrell County seat in November 2002 despite the fraud allegations and the drunken driving arrest in Dawson and re-elected again in 2004.
