Black Diamond City Councilman Craig Goodwin was arrested March 13 in Maple Valley for allegedly driving under the influence.

The time cited on the police report was 4:10 p.m.

The King County Sheriff’s deputy who arrested the 68-year-old Goodwin forwarded charges of DUI, RCW 46.51.502, to the Maple Valley Prosecutor Thomas R. Hargan.

Hargan wrote in a email Monday the DUI charge against Goodwin has been sent to the Maple Valley Municipal Court.

According to the incident report from the King County Sheriff’s deputy a man called 911 reporting he had “boxed in a vehicle of a possible intoxicated driver.”

When the two deputies arrived at Southeast 271st Place and state Route 169, near Four Corners, a Black Diamond officer was already on the scene. The officer pointed out Goodwin to the deputies.

The deputy wrote in the report Goodwin was standing outside his 1996 Toyota Corolla and “he was swaying side to side using the vehicle to hold himself up for support.”

The deputy reported he could smell a “strong order of alcoholic beverage” on Goodwin.

The councilman told the deputy he was driving to “get coffee, then heading home.”

The deputy wrote Goodwin’s speech was slurred and his “response was slow and he would stop in the middle of his sentence and stop talking. Goodwin asked me several times what was going on and what this is all about.”

The deputy told Goodwin he was driving in a “dangerous manner and had some other drivers concerned for his safety.” He also told Goodwin the witnesses thought he was driving under the influence of alcohol.

According to the report Goodwin told the deputy “I’m fine to drive.”

When asked by the deputy if he had been drinking Goodwin said, “Yes,  2 glasses of wine.”

Goodwin told the officer he came from The Mint in Enumclaw.

The incident report cited five witnesses to Goodwin’s driving with two, a 22-year-old man and 19-year-old woman, giving detailed reports to the deputy.

The man and woman were in a vehicle traveling behind Goodwin. The man gave a statement that Goodwin was swerving into oncoming traffic “nearly missing oncoming cars. After witnessing this multiple times we reported the car to a 911 dispatcher.”

The couple continued to follow Goodwin and the man stated he drifted right and nearly hit a guard rail “and the car ahead of it (he was next to the car on the shoulder).”

The man said when Goodwin stopped at a light in Maple Valley he ran up to the car to ask Goodwin if he was OK. He thought Goodwin could be under the influence and reported, “I removed the keys from the ignition when he said he was going to drive away.”

The woman wrote she got out  of the car to try and “help my boyfriend get the keys from the man, who kept trying to close his door and push my boyfriend away.”

She stated once her boyfriend got the keys Goodwin got out of the car and tried to get the keys back by grabbing her boyfriend’s arm.

She said her boyfriend asked Goodwin to sit down, “and as he was trying to help him he stumbled over. He got back up and kept asking for his keys…. I smelt alcohol on his breath as I tried to get him to stop grabbing onto my boyfriend.”

The deputies at the scene gave Goodwin voluntary field sobriety tests. He failed all tests.

He was given a breath sample test at the scene with a result of .203.

After he was arrested he gave a blood alcohol concentration test at Precinct No. 3 of .165.

State law prohibits blood alcohol concentration of  .08 or higher.

He was released to his wife. A court date has not been set.

A phone messaged was left and an email was sent to Goodwin for a comment.

He did not respond.

Goodwin was appointed to the council with a 3-1 vote at the Feb. 5 meeting. Goodwin, who is retired, served on the City Council from 2010-13 and spent a year on the planning commission from 2008-09. He did not run for re-election after his term ended.

The council position opened when then-Mayor Dave Gordon resigned from his post Nov. 25, writing in an email that “due to circumstance beyond my control, I feel I can’t serve the duties of mayor to the standard I set for myself.”

The council appointed mayor pro tempore Carol Benson to Gordon’s position six days later.

Goodwin said following his appointed he planned to run for the position, which will be on the November general election ballot.