Staff Reports
Columbus police arrested a local driver on preliminary charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and auto theft after they found him passed out in a stolen vehicle at a Columbus intersection early this morning.
Officers were sent to U.S. 31 and Marr Road at 3 a.m. Wednesday about an unresponsive person in a vehicle, said Lt. Matt Harris, Columbus Police Department spokesman.
When officers arrived, they located Jaydon M. Gilmore, 20, of 9610 E. County Road 50N, in the driver’s seat of a Honda minivan, Harris said.
Officers found several different types of prescription pills in Gilmore’s possession and determined that the minivan Gilmore was driving was reported stolen in Columbus on Monday, Harris said. Gilmore failed several field sobriety tests and was taken into custody without incident.
Gilmore was transported to Columbus Regional Hospital for a blood draw and then taken to the Bartholomew County Jail on the following preliminary charges, operating a vehicle while intoxicated (Class C misdemeanor), possession of a legend drug (Level 6 felony) and auto theft (Level 6 felony), police said.
He was being held in the Bartholomew County Jail in lieu of $17,500 bond, jail officials said.
