COLUMBUS, Ind. — A Bartholomew County man was arrested on Thursday night after crashing his van into a home while several times over the legal alcohol limit.
The Columbus Police Department (CPD) responded at 10:35 p.m. to the house in the 300 block of Hege Avenue. When officers arrived, they observed that the van driven by Robert R. Kettler Jr., 50, of Columbus, had crashed into a residence and collapsed the porch roof.
Police noted Kettler’s speech seemed slurred and so they conducted field sobriety tests in which the suspect allegedly returned a blood alcohol level of .224%.
A child sleeping inside the home when the crash occurred was not injured, per law enforcement.
Kettler was placed under arrest, jailed, and preliminarily charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence-prior conviction, operating a motor vehicle under the influence-endangerment, and operating a motor vehicle under the influence with a BAC of .15% or greater.
