The Sheriff's Office reports the early morning arrest of a Town of Freedom man for DWI following a traffic stop on Olean Rd. in the Town of Sardinia.

While on patrol early Tuesday morning , Erie County Sheriff's Deputy Brad Ballantyne stopped a vehicle on Olean Rd. in the Town of Sardinia for a traffic violation.

Upon further investigation and field sobriety testing, the driver, 28 y/o Dustin E. Bliss of Freedom, was found to be intoxicated. Bliss submitted to a chemical breath test which showed a reading of .13% BAC.

Bliss was charged with DWI and various other traffic violations. His vehicle was towed from the scene and put on a DWI hold. Bliss was later released to a third party with appearance tickets, returnable to the Town of Sardinia Court at a later date.

This was the 37th DWI arrest by the Erie County Sheriff's Office this year.