(La Porte, IN) - Problems keep mounting for a La Porte man who was highly impaired while allegedly driving with his infant son and its mother in the vehicle.
Ryan Foster has been charged in La Porte Circuit Court with Domestic Battery and Child Neglect, both Level 6 felonies, along with Public Intoxication and Criminal Recklessness, both Class B misdemeanors.
The investigation shows Foster, on work release this past Monday, started drinking after receiving bad news regarding a custody battle over another child belonging to him.
According to police, Foster later returned to his home in the 1000 block of 4th Street and took a debit card belonging to his girlfriend. The woman, holding their child, followed him back to a car to confront him about taking the card. She was about halfway seated in the front passenger seat when Foster began driving, causing one of her legs to dangle from the open door of the vehicle while she was holding their son.
She managed to get out of the car, but Foster kept going with the passenger side door still open.
At the request of Community Corrections, police said, officers began looking for Foster, spotting him walking on nearby Eggebrecht Road, and taking him into custody during a struggle.
He made $400 in ATM withdrawals from the stolen debit card and had $300 of that amount in his possession upon being booked into the La Porte County Jail. The money still left was returned to the victim.
