The Associated Press
SULLIVAN, Ind. — The City Council president faces a preliminary drunken driving charge after police said he marooned a city patrol car in the front yard of a home in a nearby town.
Clint D. Lamb, 27, was arrested early Tuesday by the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department after an officer responded to a report of a police car stuck in a yard in Shelburn, about 20 miles south of Terre Haute.
Police said Lamb registered a blood-alcohol content of 0.12 percent, above Indiana’s 0.08 percent limit to legally drive.
Lamb told police he was driving the Sullivan police car when it became stuck and was waiting for a friend to help pull him out with a pickup truck, according to a sheriff’s department report. The patrol car appeared to have crossed a front walkway and become lodged in the mud on the north side of the yard, the report said.
Two people were with Lamb but not identified in the report. There was minor damage to the vehicle, the report said.
The keys to the patrol car usually hang on a cork board at the Sullivan City Hall and the car is used by the city lot inspector, said Sullivan Police Chief Dave Story.
He said he did not know if any further charges would be filed against Lamb.
“We are still finding out the whole story and what was going on,” Story said.
Lamb was released from the Sullivan County Jail on $3,000 bond on Tuesday, said Brant Ford, a Sullivan County dispatcher.
No one answered calls placed to a number listed for a Clint D. Lamb in Sullivan and a message left for him at City Hall was not returned.
Lamb was re-elected to the Sullivan City Council in November and recently reappointed as president.