Drunk Driver Wasn't Home for Christmas Morning...he was in jail just in
case his family missed Daddy around the tree...
Dead he ain't....not that he didn't try to kill himself or others out on St. Mary's County roadways on Christmas morning. 

St. Mary's Sheriff's Sgt. Daniel Alioto reports that a man led officers on a high speed chase and even after they used stop sticks to deflate his tires he even continued to elude them while driving on the rims of his tires. 

The chase started when Deputy Keith Moritz pulled over a 1980 Corvette operated by James Brian Thompson, 38, of Lexington Park, in Great Mills and led officers on a chase which ended when he bailed out in a Lexington Park neighborhood.  

Thompson had prior DWI offences, according to Sgt. Alioto and he went to jail for the rest of the night as District Court Commissioners won't see intoxicated persons.

Thompson is also a special creep who is a danger and a menace to the community in that police report he has previous offences of Driving While Suspended and Driving While Revoked on his record.  

Hats off to St. Mary's Sheriff's Deputy Moritz for this arrest which may have saved lives. 

Anyone with photos or information on Thompson may email them to www.staff@stmarystoday.com as we put him on our new Public Enemy Number One list of repeat drunk drivers which will begin in 2005 for the purpose of highlighting the antics of our prosecutors and judges as they fail to jail those who kill and maim on our roads.