(La Porte County, IN) - A man was allegedly impaired when he drove into a La Porte County pond over the weekend. Craig Pickett, 26, has been arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

At roughly 1 a.m. on Saturday, police were called to the Mill Creek area, where an off-road vehicle found itself in the middle of a pond in the area of 950 East and 200 South.

Pickett told authorities that he was a farmhand and was checking the fields for flooding and drought before winding up in the pond. The Rolling Prairie man was unsteady on his feet and had an odor of alcohol on his breath.

He was way above the legal limit on a portable breathalyzer test but refused a certified test, police said.

Pickett may have been driving the off-road vehicle on a path through a woods before entering the pond, which was just a short distance from where he came out of the woods.