Drunken Man Blames 4-Year-Old Son For DUI Charge

A 39-year-old man in Wyoming allegedly blamed his four-year-old son in order to get out of a drunken driving charge.

Last weekend, the man, whose name wasn't revealed, was pulled over by Campbell County sheriff's deputies, who were responding to a report according to which he had been fighting with a woman, said sheriff's Lieutenant Paul Pownall. The woman's identity was also not revealed.

Gillette News Record reported that by the time deputies reached Stone Place Loop in Wyoming, the man had left the place where he had been allegedly fighting with the woman. The woman told the deputies that he drove off in his white-colored Ford pickup truck. The deputies were able to catch up with him, and when they did so they found him with his two sons, aged 15 and four, in his pickup truck.

Sheriff's officials said that when the man, who had been allegedly drinking, was caught, he got out of his vehicle and said that his younger son was sitting on his lap and was actually the one behind the wheel.

It was found that he was on probation that was not supervised in connection with a previous driving while under the influence (DUI) arrest with mandatory use of an interlock device in his truck and alcohol restrictions. The man turned down a breath test as well as field sobriety tests.

Pownall said that it was then the deputies arrested him for his second DUI offense, driving without an interlock device and violation of probation. A search warrant for a blood draw was sought and then granted while he was put behind bars.

In a separate incident, a 58-year-old school bus driver crashed her vehicle into an embankment traveling southbound on Interstate 295 following which she was arrested Thursday morning and then charged with DUI.

According to jacksonville.com, the driver, Lisa Annette Mims, is also facing crash-related charges. The Florida Highway Patrol said that children were not on the bus when the crash happened early morning. According to a crash report, Mims was driving the bus through Duval County, Florida and tried to take the Interstate 10 eastbound exit, but "failed to safely negotiate the curve" and went onto the road's shoulder.

Officials of Duval County Public School said that the driver and the bus were not part of their fleet, so it's unclear what school she was headed to. Though there were no kids at the time of the crash, the driver was accompanied by a 62-year-old male bus monitor. No other vehicles were involved in the crash and there were no reports of anyone getting injured.