A local grocery store clerk called 911 dispatch after noticing that an intoxicated customer was getting behind the wheel of his truck on Tue., June 15 just after 6 p.m.
Joshua Todd, 44, of Columbia, South Carolina, was discovered by a Thurston Sheriff’s deputy parked in his 2019 Dodge Ram 2500 truck, resting in a grassy ditch not far from the Black Lake Grocery at 4409 Black Lake Blvd. SW.
Todd was allegedly sitting in his truck with the hands on the steering wheel, the truck idling, and as the Sheriff’s deputy knocked on the window, Todd ignored it, stared straight forward for a while.
After a louder knock on the window, Todd rolled the window down, asking for directions to a hotel, appearing lost. Upon rolling down the window, the Sheriff’s deputy noticed the odor of an “intoxicating substance” coming from within the truck.
Todd’s eyes were watery, bloodshot and had a “yellow tint” to them. Todd admitted to drinking three alcoholic beverages.
When Todd got out of the truck to conduct a field sobriety test, it was noted that his pants were unzipped and soiled. His shirt had a dried orange substance that Todd said was iodine. Todd then told the deputy that he had four hits of marijuana.
Todd then asked the deputy if he could get a “one-time get-out-of-jail card” and asked if he could then call an Uber. Todd told the deputy that if he took the field sobriety tests that “I am going to completely fail.”
During his blood draw at Capital Medical Center to test the level of intoxication, Todd said “That weed is some crazy stuff, I tell ya” and then said “First time trying weed isn’t that wonderful.”
Todd was booked into the Thurston County Jail for driving under the influence.
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