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Ohio Family-Values Politician Arrested Full of Alcohol and Viagra In Car With Stripper

Ohio Rep. Robert Mecklenborg is a Republican legislator and former prosecutor who has made his career on family values legislation, including his opposition to abortion rights. The Roman Catholic legislator seemed to have strayed a bit after he was arrested in a car with temporary Kentucky plates in Indiana with a young stripper. Tests found he was loaded with not just alcohol but Viagra.


The arrest in April just recently came to light.

His official bio lists his work on “parish-related activities.”

Here is the stop and arrest:

He has pleaded not guilty to operating a vehicle while intoxicated and will appear in court this month.

Here are the arrest records.

Source: Examiner

32 thoughts on “Ohio Family-Values Politician Arrested Full of Alcohol and Viagra In Car With Stripper”

  2. Mespo,

    You are a perceptive attorney, sir. Your analysis was largely spot on. As you noticed, I did not condemn the intoxicated driver in my comment above and I noted the dash cam’s benefit to all involved.

    I will try to respond later, which might be tomorrow, although I wanted to inform you now so you could look for my comments.

  4. What lawyer in is right mind would submit to field sobriety tests on a roadside? There is no obligation to play these cop-lead games and the best course is to agree to nothing except a blood test if required under your state’s implied consent law. By the way, NHTSA has only approved three standard field sobriety tests to provide some guidance in making a roadside arrest for DUI (not proof of intoxication mind you, just probable cause to arrest). They are: the one-leg stand, walk and turn, and horizontal gaze nystagmus test. They must be administered together and under strict guidelines to be valid. Even if properly admitted there is a 9% error rate.

    Other tests like the stand with feet together and tip the head backwards; count the number of fingers that the officer raises; recite the alphabet or a portion of it; count backwards; Rhomberg stationary balance test (the driver stands, feet together, and leans the head back to look up at the sky while holding their arms out to the side); finger-to-nose (this requires the driver might to close his or her eyes and bring the finger around to touch the nose); hand-pat test (the driver is asked to extend a hand in front, palm upwards. The other hand is then placed on top of the first hand, palm downwards. The driver then ‘pats’ the lower hand with the upper hand by rotating it, so that first the lower hand is patted with the palm of the upper hand and then with the back of the upper hand). Though commonly given, these non-standardized tests are not NHTSA approved and do not have proof of scientific validity.

    Despite my revulsion at the hypocrisy on display, I think the dash cam helps the defendant here. He obviously is aware of the situation and understands and can respond to the officer’s questions. He asks pertinent questions and is trying to comply. Also the officer observed no erratic driving by his own admission merely a burned out headlight. Closer call than we might think with a fair minded judge.

    Also I agree with FFLeo that the officer was patient and professional but he should have advised that the field sobriety test were optional and that the implied consent referred only to the blood/breath test.

  8. Kudos goes to Trooper Cameron McCreary for demonstrating patience and professionalism. This video illustrates why dash cams are crucially important evidentiary tools that protect potential defendants and LEOs.

  9. Joy to the World!

    Southwestern Ohio is full of these crackers … they love their churches, their booze, their blue pills, and their whores. They periodically get caught with their pants down ’cause their pants are down so often.

    Boehner is from this general vicinity

  11. Those of us who do believe in our family life and the values we need to impart to our children through deed and word, don’t use these to attain public prominence. Those who broadcast them in self serving, self advocacy, often “doth protest too much.” Those on the “Left” indeed have many who are libertines in lifestyle, on the “Right” though the libertines hypocrisy is what rankles.

  15. The officer said, “I don’t care if you’re a lawyer or not.” I didn’t hear him say that he was a lawyer but, perhaps, I just missed it…

  17. As AY observed, an obvious case of a conversion gone awry. Just not sure who was converting whom?

  18. I may be mistaken, but it looks like Mecklenborg’s drivers license expired on April 1, 2011. Wasn’t he also driving on an expired license since this occurred on April 23? What a jerk…

  19. “Ohio Family-Values Politician”

    “The arrest in April just recently came to light.”

    Nuff said.

  20. I know, he was just going to get one of his fellow parishioner at the request of the girls father (you did say female right). I am sure that is how it will be played…. and he made a poor decision to drive after he had had a couple of drinks…so it’s no biggie…I am talking about the arrest…not the viagra induced state… that I haven’t a clue….only the alter boy knows for sure….

    I should be ashamed…but I’m not….

    Hypocrite…

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