Suspected Drunk ATV Driver Arrested

Written by WWMT News Channel 3

Sunday, August 31, 2008

PAW PAW, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Police chased down a suspected drunk ATV driver Saturday.

The Van Buren County Sheriff's Department says they attempted to stop an all terrain vehicle driving on the 39000 block of Paw Paw Road around 11:50 Saturday. The ATV driver sped up and tried to lose the cops when they say them.

The driver drove off the road and went into a farm field. Officers got out of their patrol car and started to chase the 2004 Yamaha driver on foot for several hundred yards. Police were able to track down the four wheeler which had crashed into several small trees.

The driver kept on running after crashing the ATV. A K-9 unit was able to track down the driver several hundred yards away. He was hiding in the brush.

The 22-year-old Chicago Heights man who was driving the ATV was uninjured and lodged in the Van Buren County Jail. He's being charged for fleeing and eluding officers, operating while intoxicated and operating an off road vehicle on a roadway.

Source: http://www.wwmt.com/articles/driver_1352878___article.html/paw_atv.html

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