An Odessa state representative is facing DUI and vehicular assault charges after Delaware State Police say he drove while intoxicated and caused a crash, injuring another driver.
Delaware state House Rep. Kevin Hensley, who recently won reelection to his 9th District seat in November, will be arraigned Tuesday in Kent County Court of Common Pleas on misdemeanor DUI and second-degree vehicular assault, according to court records.
Hensley is also accused of failing to yield the right-of-way and driving with expired insurance.
State police said Hensley was pulling out of a Valero gas station on Route 1 south when he hit another vehicle, causing it to roll multiple times.
Hensley told police he didn’t see the car, but when authorities did a sobriety test, the state representative clocked a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08%, according to an affidavit from Camden state troopers.
By the grace of God he didn’t kill someone. Driving at twice the legal blood alcohol limit and without insurance.
And the State Police hid this story from the public. Which IS the story. Unequal justice, unequally applied. Only reason we know is b/c Hensley’s name popped up on the court docket for next week.
Here, though, is how Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown can mete out at least a measure of justice: Immediately remove Kevin Hensley from the Appropriations/Joint Finance Committee. He gets a windfall for serving on JFC. Now that he’s indicated where he spends a lot of that money, it would be a public service for him to have less money to spend on it.