A Bloomfield driver was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after deputies responded to a one vehicle crash on East Gallimore Road in the Bloomfield area last Monday night.

Jonathan Lavon Pyne, 48, Bloomfield, was arrested and booked into the Greene County Jail at 11:01 p.m. on Monday, September 28, as a result of an investigation by Deputy Michael Stanley of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department after a caller reported a crash involving one vehicle on East Gallimore Road, Bloomfield.

Deputy Stanley was dispatched, along with GCSD Deputy Jordan Allor, and both arrived around 8:16 p.m. on Monday in the area of 3303 East Gallimore Road where a caller said a vehicle was in a ditch and the driver appeared to be intoxicated, stumbling and slurring his speech.

Before the deputies arrived, the caller contacted dispatch again and said a friend of the driver had arrived in a Jeep and was pulling the vehicle out of the ditch.

As Deputy Stanley approached the scene, the vehicle, a black 2005 Ford Focus, was out of the ditch and traveling on the wrong side of the road, heading towards the deputy.

According to Deputy Stanley, when the Ford Focus was stopped, the driver, identified as Jonathan Pyne, stumbled from the vehicle and said he had just swerved to miss hitting a deer which caused him to run off the road into a ditch.

When Deputy Stanley talked to the driver of the Jeep that pulled Pyne’s vehicle out of the ditch, the man allegedly said he suspected Pyne had been drinking because he was stumbling “all over the place.”

Both empty and full alcoholic beverage containers were found either in the vehicle or near the scene and Pyne was found to be in possession of Clonazepam which is a Schedule IV controlled substance. Pyne did have a prescription for it and said he had taken his prescribed dose earlier in the day. He also said he had just two beers and a portable breath test showed he had a BAC of .08. He either failed or was unable to complete standard field sobriety tests.

Pyne was transported to Greene County General Hospital for a blood draw – results pending.

Pyne’s bond was set at $4,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed.

When Pyne appeared in Greene Superior Court last Thursday, October 1, he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, a Class A misdemeanor, and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a Class C misdemeanor.

He has since posted bond and been released from jail.