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Inebriated man mistakes state police post for hotel
08:54 PM EST on Thursday, February 1, 2007
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) -- An intoxicated man who mistook an Indiana State Police post for a hotel, telling a dispatch he wanted “to get a room,†got his wishâ€"but his lodgings turned out to be at the county jail.
The driver was arrested early Wednesday and taken to the Allen County lockup after he parked his H3 Hummer in a restricted area behind the Fort Wayne state police post, authorities said.
Two dispatchers working the midnight shift watched the Hummer on surveillance cameras, at first thinking the driver might be an excise officer or someone working undercover. But then he helped a woman out of the Hummer and the pair began walking around the building.
When one of the dispatchers opened the post’s back door to ask whether he needed any help, the man responded that they were just walking to the post’s front door to “get a room.â€
The post is next to a Holiday Inn and the driver apparently confused the two buildings, police said. Michael J. Dewitt, 39, of Warsaw was charged with driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a crash.
According to the police report, Dewitt’s blood-alcohol content was twice the state’s legal limit of 0.08 percent.
The report said Dewitt’s Hummer had extensive damage to the front passenger side and was leaking fluid. He told officers somebody had collided with the vehicles and driven off.
But city police officers said in the report that Dewitt’s Hummer was actually the one that left the scene of the crash. The driver of the other vehicle in the crash was not injured. Dewitt’s companion was not charged with any crime and taken to a private home.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
08:54 PM EST on Thursday, February 1, 2007
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) -- An intoxicated man who mistook an Indiana State Police post for a hotel, telling a dispatch he wanted “to get a room,†got his wishâ€"but his lodgings turned out to be at the county jail.
The driver was arrested early Wednesday and taken to the Allen County lockup after he parked his H3 Hummer in a restricted area behind the Fort Wayne state police post, authorities said.
Two dispatchers working the midnight shift watched the Hummer on surveillance cameras, at first thinking the driver might be an excise officer or someone working undercover. But then he helped a woman out of the Hummer and the pair began walking around the building.
When one of the dispatchers opened the post’s back door to ask whether he needed any help, the man responded that they were just walking to the post’s front door to “get a room.â€
The post is next to a Holiday Inn and the driver apparently confused the two buildings, police said. Michael J. Dewitt, 39, of Warsaw was charged with driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a crash.
According to the police report, Dewitt’s blood-alcohol content was twice the state’s legal limit of 0.08 percent.
The report said Dewitt’s Hummer had extensive damage to the front passenger side and was leaking fluid. He told officers somebody had collided with the vehicles and driven off.
But city police officers said in the report that Dewitt’s Hummer was actually the one that left the scene of the crash. The driver of the other vehicle in the crash was not injured. Dewitt’s companion was not charged with any crime and taken to a private home.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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