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Sleeping Man Arrested for OWI

(La Porte County, IN) - La Porte County Police say a man was impaired when found asleep in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked on the shoulder of U.S. 30. Devin Garbison, 31, of Knox, is charged with Operating While Intoxicated.

 

According to police, two men traveling U.S 30 early Friday stopped to check on the driver of a 2004 Dodge pick-up along the four-lane highway near Indiana 39. The truck was parked on the left shoulder with its right turn signal blinking.

 

Police said Garbison was discovered slumped over the wheel and sleeping. After the officers woke up the driver, Garbison put the vehicle in gear and drove into the grassy median, getting stuck in the muddy soil.

 

Garbison had a blood alcohol level of .14-percent.

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