Drunk driving suspects in Burnet County who refuse a breath test will have a blood sample taken within an hour, if a new round-the-clock blood sampling process in Burnet County works as planned.
The process, announced today by a group of prosecutors and law enforcement agencies, means police won鈥檛 have to go to the jail, get a warrant and go to a hospital for a blood draw.
鈥淭hat created a time lag in several places, and the typical arrest was taking three hours, and now we鈥檙e going to be able to cut that time frame down to about an hour,鈥� said Capt. Kevin Davis with .
The on-call phlebotomists will begin drawing blood on April 1.
