Plea entered in DWI charge
ANCHORAGE - A federal prosecutor on Friday pleaded no contest to a drunken-driving charge and was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and serve three days in a halfway house.
Mark A. Rosenbaum, 52, was charged earlier this month after Anchorage police saw his car swerving, according to Patrick Hanley, assistant district attorney. Rosenbaum also was charged with fourth-degree misconduct involving a weapon because he had a gun in the car and was intoxicated.
Both charges are misdemeanors.
Police said that on Aug. 20, a Rosenbaum acquaintance called police and told them he was driving drunk. The person gave the prosecutor's location and license plate number, police said.
Rosenbaum performed poorly on field sobriety tests and later tested at a 0.160 blood alcohol level, Hanley said. The legal limit is 0.08.
Rosenbaum also informed police he had a gun in his car, police said. He had a concealed weapons permit, but it is illegal to carry a gun while drunk, police said.
Rosenbaum had no previous criminal record. Rosenbaum said he has worked for the U.S. Attorney's Office for more than 18 years.
He mostly prosecutes drug cases, said U.S. Attorney Tim Burgess.
The state dropped the misconduct charge Friday in exchange for Rosenbaum's no-contest plea to drunken driving. Included in his sentence was a mandatory 90-day suspension of his license and a $5,000 fine - much higher than the $1,500 minimum.