State police arrested a Ruston man last Thursday after he allegedly crashed his vehicle which caught fire.
A Louisiana State Police trooper responded to the vehicle fire on Sharp Davis Road in Bienville Parish. Deputies on the scene told the trooper the driver had walked to a nearby residence in Lincoln Parish.
The trooper located James Ewey, 61, of Ruston, and saw he had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, and a strong odor of alcoholic beverage on his person. When the trooper asked the man’s name, he was told to leave the property.
Ewey was arrested for DWI and several traffic charges and booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center and then transferred to the Bienville Parish Sheriff’s Office.
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