Last Saturday, a Chattooga County deputy pulled a vehicle over in a lot at the intersection of Rossville Boulevard for driving on the wrong side of the roadway. As the deputy was listening to the driver explain that he had just finished cutting a client’s hair and was heading back home, he noticed that the man’s eyes were bloodshot and that he was acting as if he was tired. The driver, sixty-one-year-old Jeffrey Don Hughes failed a field sobriety test and was placed under arrest. When asked about an alcohol blood test, Hughes told the deputy, “there shouldn’t be any reason you need my blood”. An open container of alcohol was found inside the vehicle, and Hughes was booked into the Chattooga County Jail and was charged with DUI for alcohol, driving on the wrong side of the roadway, failure to signal and open container of alcohol.
