Driver flees parking lot crash
A Ruston man was arrested on December 4 after he allegedly entered a store parking lot at a high rate of speed, causing damage to some shopping carts and a fence before leaving the scene.
Letreal Carodine, 43, was arrested for hit-and-run driving and careless operation of a vehicle after he was located not far from the Dollar General store on U. S.167 in Ruston.
An officer who responded to the store reviewed videos showing a blue Chevrolet Malibu crash into several shopping carts, causing the carts to be pushed into a fence causing damage. The vehicle then drove out of the parking lot and into the lot of a nearby gas station.
Officers located Carodine, the driver. He said he was traveling north on U.S. 167 and then entered the Dollar General parking lot when his brakes stopped working and he could not control his vehicle. Police saw disabling damage to the front passenger side tire and minor damage to the car’s front bumper and passenger side mirror.
Caroline was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center with bail set at $1,000.
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