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Adventure Drive Leads to OWI

(La Porte County, IN) - Some people could die if they drank as much alcohol as one alleged drinking driver did yesterday.

 

About 9:30 a.m., La Porte County Police received a report of a vehicle driving off the road and through farm fields.  Several minutes later, a responding officer located the vehicle on Indiana 39 and 700 South.

 

Police said the officer witnessed the northbound driver nearly rear end a vehicle and veer over the center line multiple times before pulled over.

 

Nicholas Rapp, 37, had an alleged blood alcohol level nearly five times the legal limit, an amount viewed as potentially lethal in people without a high tolerance.

 

Police said his Chevy Silverado suffered an undisclosed amount of damage from driving in the farm fields.

 

Rapp from northern La Porte County could face an up to one year jail sentence for Class A misdemeanor operating while intoxicated.

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