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DWI Driver Backed into Police Cruiser
COBB ISLAND (March 11, 2008) Charles County
Sheriff's spokesman Kristen Timko reports that on
March 9 at 12:25 a.m., Charles County Sheriff’s Sgt.
J. Powell observed a vehicle traveling in the wrong
direction on Cobb Island Road in Cobb Island. She
attempted to stop the vehicle but the driver
proceeded to Piedmont Drive and pulled into a
driveway. The driver realized he was in his
neighbor’s driveway but when he attempted to back
up, his vehicle struck Sgt. Powell’s police cruiser.
There was no damage to either vehicle and no one was
injured. Sgt. Powell determined the driver, John
Gordon Paul, 50, of Cobb Island, was intoxicated and
arrested him. Paul was charged with driving under
the influence of alcohol, driving while intoxicated
and driving the wrong direction on a one way road.
He was being held at the Charles County Detention
Center pending an appearance before a district court
commissioner.
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