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	Preacher Pleads Guilty to DUI, Public Indecency Charges Associated Press, carried in Knoxville News Sentinel October 26, 2007 http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/oct/26/preacher-pleads-guilty-dui-public-indecency-charge/ Johnson City - A Virginia preacher and radio announcer has pleaded guilty to public indecency and drunken driving charges stemming from his arrest at a Johnson City car wash this summer. Thomas Dale Tester, 58, said he doesn't remember specifics of the incident in which he was accused of urinating in public view and offering to perform oral sex on responding police officers. Tester's attorney, Wes Higgins, said in court Thursday that his client had a blood-alcohol level of .08 percent, matching the state's legal limit for intoxication. Police said Tester was wearing a denim miniskirt when he was arrested and they found a half-empty bottle of vodka and empty vial that had held prescription painkillers in his car. Tester was sentenced to jail for 24 hours, ordered to pick up litter on highways for 24 hours, fined $800 and a year of probation. He was the pastor at Gospel Baptist Church in Bristol, Va., and previously worked at Christian radio station WZAP-AM.
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