After flunking a field sobriety test, he submitted to a breath test, which pegged his blood-alcohol level at 0.128%, well above the state’s legal limit of 0.08%.
He was a teacher in Nebraska at the time, and had been newly wed in 1994. In 1996 they moved to Minnesota.
Walz served in the Army National Guard from 1981-2005, first in Nebraska and then in Minnesota.