A man claiming to be Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado's cousin was arrested and charged with DUI and cocaine possession, police said.
Manuel Dejesus Loureiro, 53, told police several times Tuesday night that he was the mayor's kin after he was pulled over, an arrest report stated.
At one point he said to an officer, "I've been drinking. You know that. I'm drunk, we don't have to do this," the report said.
A spokesman for Regalado said Thursday that Loureiro's mother is the third cousin to Regalado's father.
According to police, Loureiro was swerving in his Hyundai Accent and driving erratically when he was pulled over by police. He had "blood shot eyes, flushed face, slurred speech and had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath," the officer wrote in his report.
As cops waited for back up, Loureiro reached into his pocket and dropped a tissue paper on the ground and tried to walk away from it, the report stated.
An officer picked it up and inside was a small plastic bag with cocaine in it, police said.
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Loureiro also initially refused a Breathalizer test, but then took it twice and his blood-alcohol level was .250 and .246, according to the report. Florida's legal limit. is .08.
Officials said Loureiro was released Wednesday on $5,000 bond. It's wasn't immediately known whether he had an attorney.
