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Police: I-69 driver drunk, doing 119

The trooper’s radar had Robert Jahns going 119 mph.

Not only was he well over the 70-mph speed limit, he was intoxicated and his wife and stepchildren, ages 5 and 16, were in the car, according to the Indiana State Police.

The family was driving through Steuben County, heading north on Interstate 69 to Battle Creek, Mich., for a Thanksgiving Day gathering.

Another motorist alerted authorities to Jahns’ driving, and trooper Chris Kinsey received a report about 5 p.m. Thursday that a vehicle was traveling at more than 100 mph on the interstate.

Kinsey later spotted Jahns’ car, a 2005 Chrysler, and clocked him at 119 mph before pulling him over. Kinsey suspected Jahns had been drinking, and a breath test at the Steuben County Jail showed he had a blood-alcohol level above Indiana’s legal limit of 0.08 percent, state police said.

Jahns, 36, of Middletown, Ohio, was booked on a felony charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He posted $5,000 bond to be released. Reached by phone Friday, Jahns’ wife said her husband declined to comment.