Ex Social Development Minister Guillermo Ferrufino  under country arrest while awaiting trial for alleged  money laundering  was booked for impaired driving and driving with an expired rove drunk and with an expired license at dawn on  Sunday, the March 18  in Caldera, at the entrance to the Boquete district in  Chiriqui,

[caption id="attachment_56908" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ferrufino became tearful at an earlier hearing[/caption]

Ferrufino had to stop at a checkpoint  Where the agents of the National Police verified that he was driving with an expired license. A breathalyzer test showed that he was driving with 65 micrograms per deciliter when the maximum allowed is 28.

According to the level of drunkenness reports La Prensa from 5-24 (micrograms per deciliter) a warning is given; 25-40 gets a  $150; ticket: 41 or more is proven drunkenness, with a $ 150 fine, and car towed and retained.

Ferrufino’s vehicle was confiscated and he had to leave with relatives.

Ferrufino, who once had presidential ambitions but was told by then-president  Ricardo Martinelli to lower his sights to the Panama mayoralty,  has the precautionary measure of country jail after spending time in preventive detention

On February 27 the Second Superior Court of Justice did not grant an appeal filed by the defense of Ferrufino and Marta Herrera,  against the decision of the Second Court, which maintained the Money Laundering process against   Ferrufino and Herrera for money laundering.

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