Lynn police arrest two unlicensed drunken drivers

LYNN – Two men who shouldn’t be on the road were arrested for flagrantly driving drunk early Saturday morning, police said.Victor Lopez, 30, of 173 North Common St., Lynn, couldn’t hide the fact that he was drinking after being pulled over at 645 Western Ave. at about 2:20 a.m. – police said he had two half-full bottles of Heineken in the center console and numerous empty beer bottles and cans strewn about the car.After being pulled over for nearly striking a parked vehicle on the corner of Mall Street and Western Avenue then driving on the wrong side of the road with his headlights off, Lopez forgot to put the car in park until the officer repeatedly told him to do so, according to a police report.”He could barely stand without falling,” Sgt. Christopher Kelly wrote in his police report.After Lopez allegedly couldn’t remember his own address, he said to Kelly, “It’s alright. I go now.”Lopez, who was too drunk to perform field sobriety tests, was arrested and charged with unlicensed operation of a vehicle, operating under the influence of alcohol, a marked lanes violation, possession of an open container of alcohol in a vehicle and driving at night without headlights.At the exact same time Lopez was being arrested, police were called to 52 Bay View Ave. where Rony Nolasco, 26, of 74 Adams St., Lynn, allegedly crashed his van into a tree and a stone wall.Officer John Vautour found Nolasco slumped over the wheel and asked him in Spanish if he needed an ambulance, to which Nolasco allegedly slurred, “No.””He then stepped out of the van and fell on me,” Vautour wrote in a police report.Nolasco also said, “No” when Vautour asked him if he had a license to drive.Nolasco refused to take a breath test and was arrested for operating under the influence of alcohol and unlicensed operation of a vehicle.Both suspects were arraigned Monday in Lynn District Court, released on personal recognizance and told to appear in court for hearings at a later date.