Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Several Odd Cases Eyed By Authorities
Local law enforcement officials have been asked to investigate a number of bizarre incidents in recent days, all involving an individual who appeared to be under the influence of some type of intoxicant.
Driver Causes Hazard
On April 13 officers with the Lawrenceburg Police Department were notified around 9:45 a.m. that a driver traveling along West Gaines Street was creating a hazard, veering into the path of oncoming traffic. Many, complainants reported, had to pull over in order to avoid a collision.
Officers made contact with the driver, Rickey Daniel Odom, 50, of Sanders Lane, Leoma, at the West Point Road location of Super Stop. He was taken into custody and during a search subsequent to arrest they report finding contraband on his person and inside his car.
Officers report seizing one hydrocodone tablet, four Lyrica pills, and 96 Diciofenae sodium. Officers indicate Odom admitted he had no prescriptions for the drugs.
Odom was jailed under charges of Fourth Offense DUI, violation of the implied consent law, and possession of schedule III and schedule V narcotics without prescriptions. He is scheduled for to appear in Lawrence County General Sessions Court on May 10, 2010.
Intoxicated Person On Bicycle
Officers were asked to investigate April 17 when drivers noticed that a man riding a bicycle along North Locust Avenue appeared to be intoxicated.
The man, Paul Leroy Pifer, Jr., 79, of Sixth Street, Lawrenceburg, was found in the parking lot of the North Locust Super Stop market.
Officers indicate his bicycle was lying on its side in a parking space near the front door and Pifer was attempting to pick up a 12 pack of beer he had dropped. He reportedly told officers he had consumed 2 quarts of beer earlier.
Pifer was given an opportunity to call someone to pick him up, but officers note he “was unable to do so.” He was subsequently placed under arrest on charges of public intoxication and transported to the Lawrence County Jail. Pifer is slated for an initial appearance in general sessions court on May 6, 2010.
Intoxicated Woman Eats Items In Store
Officers made their way to Kroger, 1700 North Locust Avenue, on April 17 after store officials complained about an unruly person on the premises.
They reported the woman was acting strangely and eating items inside the store without paying for them. They told officers that it was “obvious she was heavily intoxicated on something.”
The woman, Laci S. Buie, 23, of Mt. Pleasant, explained to officers she had taken some new medication that day. They noted that at times she did not make sense.
Buie was placed under arrest on charges of public intoxication and transported to the Lawrence County Jail. Kroger officials opted not to press theft charges, but did warn the woman not to be back on the premises.
Driver Passes Out In Drive-thru
On Sunday, April 18, officers were summoned to Krystal restaurant on North Locust Avenue where employees reported a man had passed out inside his car while at the menu board of the driver-thru lane.
Officers found that the man was slumped over with his head down, “snot running from his nose,” and his foot on the brake of the still-running vehicle. The reporting officer indicates he reached inside and placed the car in park before rousting the man.
When he asked him to pull into a parking space, he reports the man placed the car in reverse rather than drive and narrowly avoided a collision with the car behind him.
Once he pulled into a space the officer reports the driver failed field sobriety tests and refused to submit to a blood alcohol test.
The driver, Alaric Barret Crouch, 35, of Lawrenceburg, was arrested on a charge of Second Offense DUI and transported to the Lawrence County Jail. Reports show that his breathalyzer test measured .175.
Crouch is scheduled to answer the charge against him on June 4, 2010 through Lawrence County General Sessions Court.
Son assaults parents
On Monday, April 19, deputies with the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department were sent to a home on Vera Lane in Leoma to intervene in a domestic dispute.
When they arrived the father told them that his son, who had been intoxicated, came into their home and engaged he and his wife in a verbal argument.
During the confrontation the son reportedly washed his mother’s Apap & codeine tablets down the sink then removed pictures from the wall to take home with him.
When the father told his son to put the items down and leave, he reports that his son began shoving him repeatedly.
The father was shoved to the floor, causing a laceration to his right knee. The father told deputies that he struck his son in the face “to get him off” him. He said his son then left.
The son, Charles Boyd Rogers, Jr., 48, of Loretto, was stopped on Fair Street in Leoma by another deputy. He was placed under arrest and transported to the Lawrence County Jail where he was booked under charges of domestic assault and domestic vandalism.
Rogers is scheduled to appear in general sessions court in connection with the charges.
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