GOP Indiana lawmaker charged with DWI, leaving scene of accident
Fox News
Republican Indiana state Rep. Jim Lucas has been charged with driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident for a May 31 crash on an Interstate 65 interchange.
Police said officers stopped Lucas, 58, walking near where they found the badly damaged truck, which has a state legislator license plate, parked behind a Seymour carpet store nearly 3 miles from the crash at the interchange of Interstate 65 and Indiana 11.
A state trooper’s affidavit said Lucas smelled of alcohol, failed a field sobriety exam and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.097% on a portable breath test device more than an hour after the crash. The state’s legal limit to drive is 0.08%. Police said a blood test was conducted at a Seymour hospital but that result was not included in court documents filed Monday.