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Iowa Man Charged For Drinking Cop’s Pop During Arrest
A 38-year-old man from Spirit Lake, Iowa who was already facing several charges tacked another one on after he drank a deputy's can of pop during his arrest.
Around 6:10am on Sunday near Little Rock, Iowa, Benjamin Robert Gray was arrested on charges of first-offense operating while under the influence, first-offense possession of a controlled substance (marijuana), possession of drug paraphernalia and fifth-degree theft.
He caught the police's attention when someone reported a 2013 Ford Explorer parked in the middle of the street about a mile and a half south of Little Rock.
When the Lyon County Sheriff’s Deputy approached the vehicle, he found Gray slumped over in the driver's seat with his pants down around his thighs.
The car was parked in the middle of the southbound lane of the road, but was turned off and the key was sitting on the passenger seat.
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Gray's eyes were reportedly bloodshot and watery, and his speech was very slurred. He told the deputy he thought he was on a gravel road near Spirit Lake.
Obviously on something, the deputy walked Gray to the police car, and returned to the Explorer to look for any sort of evidence of what Gray might be on to make sure he'd be okay.
In the back of the car was a small amount of marijuana, and half of a glass pipe with residue in it was found hidden in the middle console.
After the deputy returned to the police car, he found Gray had grabbed the deputy's can of Mountain Dew from the middle console, and had opened it and drank it.
To nobody's surprise, Gray later failed preliminary field sobriety tests.
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