The drunk-driving arrest of a veteran South Jersey police officer whose blood alcohol level tested at over four times the legal limit is coming to light over a year later — because material members of the public obtained through public records requests was posted online. Lower Township police Lt. John Chew, 48, was stopped in the Erma section of Lower Township in his Chevrolet pickup truck on April 27, 2018 after several 911 calls were received about an erratic driver operating at a high rate of speed, according to a case file posted online by an individual or group using the names "Real World Police" and "Real World Media." Lower Township police have acknowledged the documents and a body camera video when asked by New Jersey 101.5 about them.
After failing a roadside sobriety test, Chew, who had been off-duty at the time of the stop, was charged with DWI.
The arrest did not appear in a police blotter post on the Lower Township Police Facebook page for the time period of the arrest posted on May 15, 2018, or in reports posted in subsequent weeks. There did not appear to have been any coverage of it by the state's news outlets at the time.
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