Shall we call him "bloodhound"?

Looks like our own Sgt. Gunter had a busy night last night, tracking down an alleged drunk driver in Bragtown.

From the N&O:

Police found a man accused of drunkenly driving into a yard by following a trail left after he walked away through droppings left by the resident's dogs.

Police say Josue Herrios-Coronilla, 18, was drunk when he left his apartment on Channing Court and drove his black Camaro on the wrong side of the road, all the way into the front yard of 3025 Farthing St. in Bragtown.

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Luckily for police, two of McDonald's four dogs -- a Great Pyrenees named Comet and a chow named Snowball -- use the yard as their dumping grounds. And when the driver stepped out of his car, he left a fresh shoe print in a pile of droppings and an odoriferous trail down Channing Avenue, said Durham police Sgt. Dale Gunter.

Gunter followed the path and stopped a white van driving toward him, asking the passenger, Herrios-Coronilla, to get out. The officer smelled his breath. He smelled alcohol.

Then, he looked at the man's shoes. They were covered in evidence.

The real question for Sgt. Gunter, of course, is how does this compare to being a Beaver Queen Pageant judge when it comes to career highlights?