Napping motorist arrested for drunk driving

 

Joshua Slavens
Joshua Slavens

An Idaville man apparently picked a bad place to take a nap this morning. Emergency responders in Pulaski County were dispatched to a report of an injury crash on State Road 114 west of U.S. 421 just before 6 a.m. and found 35-year-old Joshua Wayne Slavens sleeping in his car. They woke him up, and he drove off. Pulaski County Sheriff’s Deputy Mat Anderson was turning onto turning onto114 from 421 en route to the crash scene, met Slavens’ vehicle leaving, pulled him over and arrested him for operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a prior conviction.