A 52-year-old man was arrested Saturday after driving a vehicle occupied by two passengers, including a toddler, into a creek off Sam Smith Road in the northeast part of Hamilton County.
The vehicle was partially submerged when Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived not long after 5:30 p.m., according to Hamilton County court documents. They pulled a 3-year-old from the vehicle.
The child had been unrestrained and was holding a beer can in a coozie when he was pulled from the vehicle, court documents state.
The driver, identified as Tony Lewis, was becoming “agitated” while in the back of an ambulance when deputies tried to talk to him, court documents show.
“I could immediately detect the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming off his breath,” one deputy wrote in an arrest report.