By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Jenks man accused of drunk driving on Highway 33 in Perkins has been jailed on $40,000 bail pending an Aug. 7 court appearance on the felony charge filed as a third offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison on conviction.
Willie Jones, 44, was arrested at 1:50 am on July 15 by Perkins Police Officer Dylan Anderson, who had been advised by a sheriff’s dispatcher at 1:20 am “of someone calling about a reckless driver near Cushing,” in a green SUV heading toward Perkins, an affidavit alleged.
“I located the vehicle driving westbound on SH 33 passing Sadler Road,” a GMC SUV that swerved to the right and then swerved left of the center line on the highway, the Perkins officer alleged in an affidavit filed last week.
After the vehicle pulled over in front of Main and Fairway Drive, “Jones told me he did not know where he was and said he was not from around here,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“When Jones stepped out of the vehicle, I asked him how much alcohol he had to drink, and he told me a fifth. I asked Jones what he drank a fifth of. Jones said he drank a fifth of vodka about two hours prior,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
After an attempt at a field sobriety walk and turn test, “Jones stopped and said he could not do the test. Jones told me he was tired, and I told him he also had a fifth of vodka, and he said, ‘Yeah,"” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
Jones refused to take a test for the presence of alcohol, the affidavit alleged.
At the time of his arrest in Perkins, Jones was free on $1,000 bail on a felony charge of drunk driving three months ago in Tulsa County on which he was scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 7, court records show.
Jones had previously been placed on probation in Oklahoma County for misdemeanor drunk driving in 2006 and felony drunk driving in 2013, court records show.
