A Florida man has been charged, after law enforcement said he was driving drunk when he caused a crash in Mexico, Mo.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Mexico police officers were called to the 1500 block of North Olive for a report of a crash.<\/p>\n
Court documents state that a 2022 Dodge Ram pulling a gooseneck trailer had hit several vehicles, driven through yards, hit a house, and then left the scene.<\/p>\n
A witness said a man, Luis Soberon-Companioni, 32, of Brandon, FL, was angry and had been yelling.<\/p>\n
They said he got into the truck and backed up, hitting a 2002 Ford truck, pushing it into the yard.<\/p>\n
Companioni then drove north into a dead-end in the 1600 block of North Olive.<\/p>\n
The documents said Companioni, while trying to turn around, drove through the yard, over some small trees and bushes, and hit a residence, damaging the porch.<\/p>\n
Companioni then drove off and hit a parked 2022 Jeep. That pushed the Jeep into a 2020 Jeep.<\/p>\n
Officers were able to find the truck on Love Street, near Jefferson Street.<\/p>\n
They arrested Companioni and took him to the Mexico Public Safety Department.<\/p>\n
Officers said Companioni refused to give a breath sample to determine his blood alcohol content.<\/p>\n
While the officers got a warrant to take a blood draw to determine his BAC, they said that Companioni fought against the procedure.<\/p>\n
Officers said that Companioni started kicking his legs, hitting one of them in the groin.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors charged Companioni with felony counts of Leaving the Scene Of Accident – Property Damage Exceeding $1,000 and Tampering With Physical Evidence in Felony Prosecution.<\/p>\n
They also charged him with DWI, Fourth Degree Assault – Special Victims, and two counts of Leaving Scene Of Accident.<\/p>\n
He was being held on a $25,000 bond in the Audrain County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida man has been charged, after law enforcement said he was driving drunk when he caused a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-239072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}