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Litterbug with Taste for Whiskey Ticketed

(La Porte County, IN) - La Porte County Police stopped a driver who flung a whiskey bottle out of his moving vehicle.

 

On Tuesday, an officer witnessed the 53-year-old driver throw a bottle out of his passenger side window on State Road 2 near Rolling Prairie.

 

After being stopped, the driver, with alcohol on his breath, admitted what he threw was a whiskey bottle. The South Bend man was not legally intoxicated, but had some alcohol in his system.

 

A records check revealed the driver, James Ison, is currently out on bond for drunk driving and other alcohol related offenses in Lake and Porter counties.

 

He was given a ticket for Littering and Operating a Vehicle while Consuming Alcohol, police said.

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