Central Pa. lawmakers chief of staff arrested in March, charged with DUI [Video]

By Jaxon White, LNP, Lancaster, Pa. (TNS)

State Sen. Ryan Aument’s chief of staff and legal counsel was arrested in March by state police and charged with driving under the influence after officers found him parked at the bottom of a grassy median on Route 283 East, west of the Route 743 exit to Elizabethtown, according to a criminal complaint.

Ryan Boop, 46, of East Hempfield Township, was already speaking with local officers when state troopers arrived at the scene at 11:24 p.m. on March 26 in response to a call from Northwest Regional Police.

State Trooper Gregory Archulet noted in his affidavit of probable cause that he smelled a “strong odor of alcohol” on Boop’s breath.

Boop, a former assistant Lancaster County district attorney who joined Aument’s staff in 2018, told officers that he had consumed alcohol earlier that night while at a dinner with friends at a restaurant in “the city.”

He said he was on his way home …