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Driver Seen Tossing Beer Cans Arrested for OWI

(La Porte County, IN) - A report of a vehicle operating in an unsafe manner with beer cans being thrown out the window resulted in the driver being arrested with a blood alcohol content nearly four times the legal limit.

 

That’s according to La Porte County Police, who responded Sunday just before 6:30 p.m.

 

Police said Zachary Oman, 30, was southbound on U.S. 35 before turning left into the Kingsbury Industrial Park.  An officer behind him witnessed his car twice veer over the center line before making a traffic stop.

 

Police said there were numerous empty beer cans discovered inside a cooler on the back seat of Oman’s vehicle.

 

The Valparaiso man, who has a prior OWI conviction in Michigan from 2018, denied throwing beer cans out of the car.

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