Driving blind and drunk
A 41-year-old Oklahoma man being arraigned for DUI was rearrested for reportedly being drunk after he fell down before the judge.
Mark Watson was originally arrested after a hit-and run-crash in Bartlesville. He admitted to having been drinking at the time of the crash, but blamed the other driver.
“I’m drunk, I was driving, but I did not run the stop sign,” Watson told the officers, according to charging documents.
Watson refused to take a blood or breath test, “I ain’t taking no tests. I’m drunk. I’m blind anyways and I can’t drive.”
Police say he then kicked an officer during the arrest.
Dude, where’s my pickup?
Police in Mississippi say they caught two men breaking into a police department to retrieve marijuana from an impounded pickup truck.
Said Bay St. Louis Police Chief Mike DeNardo, “They aren’t the smartest people in the world.”
It all started when police arrested and charged Kyle Blaine Corr, 19, with burglary and impounded his truck.
A few days later, Corr and Jeffrey Chase Phillips, 19, broke into the garage through a steel side door, and Corr began removing bags of marijuana from one of the side panels, police said.
The suspects started to leave, which is when the officers stopped them.
An education is a terrible thing to waste
“A man who hung his GED certificate above his methamphetamine-cooking rig, then fled police by taking to the woods with a tent and a bowl of macaroni and cheese, pleaded guilty today to charges that could send him to prison for years.”
That glorious sentence began a story about an alleged fugitive meth maker in Wednesday’s Roanoke Times.
John Nelon Jr., 29, made his meth in a garage, where he lived with his 15-year-old girlfriend. An anonymous tip led to a police search. Authorities didn’t find Nelon, but they found Nelon’s GED certificate hanging above the lab, leaving little doubt about the identity of their suspect, the newspaper said.
Nelon tried to hide in the woods, but he took scant provisions. When his girlfriend went to resupply, officers were watching.
Nelon tried to escape, but did not outrun the police dog.
Them’s fightin’ words
Two neighbors in Florida got into a fist fight over the sexual orientation of country singer Conway Twitty.
Joe Capes and Ronald Richards were hanging out in Richards’ trailer when one of the men said Twitty was gay. The two got into a shoving match, and Capes punched Richards in the face, breaking his glasses, and causing his eye to bleed. -Scott McCabe
