Post by WaTcHeR on Jun 2, 2006 11:59:23 GMT -5
06.02.2006 - BENTON, La. -- A Bossier Parish sheriff's deputy arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated has been fired.
Ragan Wayne Lowe, 28, of Princeton, had worked as a jailer since 2002 until his dismissal Thursday, Sheriff Larry Deen said.
Lowe was off duty and driving his personal vehicle eastbound on Interstate 20 just after 5 a.m. Thursday when a state trooper saw his vehicle start to run off the road, according to police reports.
Lowe then began following another vehicle too closely, eventually forcing it off the road, before his own vehicle left the highway and rolled into a field as he was exiting I-20 onto Interstate 220, the reports show.
Lowe was also booked with one count each of careless operation of a vehicle, driving without a license and following too closely. He was released from the Bossier Maximum Security Facility after posting $1,500 bond.
The arrest was Lowe's first for DWI, said sheriff's spokesman Ed Baswell, who added that he did not know Lowe's blood-alcohol level at the time he was pulled over.
Lowe has no record of other offenses in Bossier Parish, and no complaints had been logged against him since he started working in the corrections division, Baswell said. He initially said he was not hurt, but was later taken to LSU Hospital in Shreveport for back pain, Baswell said.
The driver of the vehicle Lowe ran off the road was not hurt, Baswell said.
Ragan Wayne Lowe, 28, of Princeton, had worked as a jailer since 2002 until his dismissal Thursday, Sheriff Larry Deen said.
Lowe was off duty and driving his personal vehicle eastbound on Interstate 20 just after 5 a.m. Thursday when a state trooper saw his vehicle start to run off the road, according to police reports.
Lowe then began following another vehicle too closely, eventually forcing it off the road, before his own vehicle left the highway and rolled into a field as he was exiting I-20 onto Interstate 220, the reports show.
Lowe was also booked with one count each of careless operation of a vehicle, driving without a license and following too closely. He was released from the Bossier Maximum Security Facility after posting $1,500 bond.
The arrest was Lowe's first for DWI, said sheriff's spokesman Ed Baswell, who added that he did not know Lowe's blood-alcohol level at the time he was pulled over.
Lowe has no record of other offenses in Bossier Parish, and no complaints had been logged against him since he started working in the corrections division, Baswell said. He initially said he was not hurt, but was later taken to LSU Hospital in Shreveport for back pain, Baswell said.
The driver of the vehicle Lowe ran off the road was not hurt, Baswell said.