Trooper Zahn is an lying disgrace to the Tennessee Highway Patrol

THP’s Trooper Zahn is falsely accusing drivers of driving while under the influence of a controlled substance. This trooper should not be on the street and his authority ripped from him and he should be arrested for falsifying documents, evidence and false arrest.

U.S. Attorney Jane Bondurant had been arrested by Zahn. Bondurant was arrested last November in Franklin after getting into a fender bender with a Franklin police officer.

The arrest report indicates Trooper Zahn was called in, and he wrote that Bondurant had bloodshot watery eyes and appeared to be impaired.

“Keep in mind, I’m 71 years old, I’ve been in a wreck,” Bondurant said. “I felt like I was doing really well (on the field sobriety test), and I felt like my friend with me felt the same way.” I think she was so shocked that I’d even been arrested and that I was even doing it,” Bondurant said.

Bondurant, who served as a U.S. attorney in Louisville, said that after her arrest, she was handcuffed to a wall in the jail.

“Shock was the first reaction. Trauma. And the trauma lasted for months, because it took months for it to be resolved,” Bondurant said.

Her bloodwork would later come back showing no alcohol and no drugs, except for her sleep medication she’d taken the night before. The charge was nolled, which means prosecutors opted not to prosecute.

The Governor referred to a new state law prompted by our “Sobering Problem” investigations, which will require the TBI to gather all the sober drivers arrested for DUI, and the police agencies that arrested them, in 2025.

But that report won’t include cases like Bondurant’s, as she was arrested last November.

It also won’t include how the drivers are impacted by the arrests. After her arrest, Bondurant learned her insurance was being dropped.

“I just called the (insurance) guy, and I said, ‘Is this because of the DUI?’ And he said yes,” Bondurant said.