
A forty-year-old Chattooga County man was charged with driving while intoxicated last Friday after a sheriff’s deputy stopped him near the intersection of John Jones Road and Silver Hill Road. According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy noticed the vehicle run off the side of the road after pulling out from the gas station at Gore. The deputy followed the vehicle and the driver continued to show signs of impairment. After the traffic stop, the deputy spoke with the driver, identified as William Patrick Scoggins, he could tell the driver was under the influence of alcohol. After failing several field sobriety tests, Scoggins was arrested and charged with DUI for alcohol, failure to maintain a single lane and open container of alcohol and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail.







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