Thursday, March 12, 2015
Intoxicated Driver Becomes Stuck In The Mud Causing Damages To Resident’s Yard And Corn Field
A local man was jailed late Monday after he allegedly caused damages to a yard and corn field when he drove while intoxicated.
Reports filed through the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department show that twenty-three year old David Chase Jones of 40 Perry Circle, Lawrenceburg, was arrested after deputies were summoned to an Ethridge Redhill Road property around 11:30 p.m.
The reporting deputy reports finding a truck in a corn field adjacent to the victim’s residence. He reports that a man was slumped back in the seat “either passed out or asleep.” He said the truck had been driven down a steep embankment coming to rest against a fence and was buried up in the mud. He noted tracks leading from the driveway of the residence, across the yard and field. He said it appeared the driver had been “doing multiple doughnuts” in the corn field.
The deputy reports that the driver, identified as Jones, appeared to wake up when he called to him. He exited when asked to do so, and the deputy reports that he appeared to be intoxicated.
A female acquaintance at the scene reported that she had driven Jones to the home, but that he had told her it was his house. She said she parked the truck and that when she exited Jones moved into the driver’s seat. She said he drove across the yard and into the field, eventually becoming stuck. She told deputies that they had been at a Lawrenceburg restaurant prior to the incident where he had consumed several alcoholic beverages.
Jones was transported to the Lawrence County Detention Center where he was booked under charges of public intoxication and vandalism.
The property owner estimated damages to be well in excess of $500. He agreed that the truck could remain on the property until it could be retrieved from the mud. The deputy noted that, “I did smell smoke and oil coming from the truck” and that Jones, “Told me he had ‘blown it up’ and it was not drivable.”
