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VA Beach DUI-Enforcement Officer Arrested With .15 BAC

Officer Bryan K. Womble, 36, is one of eight members of the Virginia Beach Police Department's Selective Enforcement Team (SET).  According to vbgov.com, the unit was formed in 1987 in order to "address the city's increasing fatality and alcohol- related accident rates."  Womble specializes in enforcing drunken-driving laws; he arrested Bruce Smith, a retired NFL star,  last month and made 70 DUI arrests in 2007.  Womble was invovled in a crash at the oceanfront at 2 a.m. Saturday morning while off-duty.  He failed three out of four sobriety tests, was arrested by his supervisor, and was charged with DWI.  Womble registered a .15 blood alcohol content, almost twice the legal limit of .08.  He was released from jail on bond; his trial is set for July 27.