Stamford official charged with drunken driving
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STAMFORD - A first-term city representative was arrested
Thursday night after driving drunk, smashing into a
car downtown and fleeing the accident scene, authorities said.
Michael Lombardo, 30, of 17 Redmont Road, a rising star in
the city's Republican party, failed sobriety tests after police
found him walking nearly a mile north of the crash scene on
Washington Boulevard, said Lt. Sean Cooney, a department spokesman.
Lombardo, an investment counselor who represents District 20
in North Stamford, was traveling north on Washington Boulevard
just after 8 p.m. when he ran a red light at Hoyt Street, Cooney said.
At the same time, a 29-year-old Wilton man in a Toyota station wagon
was making a left turn from Hoyt Street onto the southbound side of
Washington Boulevard, Cooney said.
Lombardo's 2005 Jeep crashed into the front end of the Toyota, Cooney said.
Lombardo was a few feet from crashing into the driver's side door,
which could have killed the victim, Cooney said.
"This could have been a catastrophe," he said.
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