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Tennessee State Trooper caught making 8th false DUI arrest of a sober person

Jason Weisberger
Sep 02, 2025
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State trooper Sam Zahn's eighth identified sober victim of a false DUI arrest turns out to be a sober 71-year-old former US Attorney.

WSMV News has uncovered sixteen cases of sober people arrested for DUIs, eight of them by the same trooper, Sam Zahn. These arrests wreak havoc on people's lives. Why Zahn is still out there making arrests and hasn't been …

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