Driver accused of drunkenly ramming police car

ST. PETERSBURG -- The first clue that Robert Joseph Costie may have been drinking and driving early Monday morning: the crushed rear end of a St. Petersburg police cruiser. Costie's 2004 Honda crashed into the back of that marked police car, authorities say, while the officer was stopped at a red light around 3:20 a.m. Monday at Gandy Boulevard and Fourth Street N. Costie then performed poorly on field-sobriety tests, police said. He had a blood-alcohol level of 0.175 and 0.181 -- more than

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