Wilkesboro Police were busy over the weekend with drunken-driving related crashes and stops. The first incident, a wreck, happened Friday night about 8 pm at the Highway 421 and 18 intersection. Police say 18-year old Bryan Carlton of Lancaster, South Carolina, rear-ended a car driven by David Eisenhauer of Cary, who was stopped waiting on the traffic light. Police say Carlton did not slow down, and ticketed him for that. He was also arrested for two counts related to DUI -- one for having any alcohol at all in his system, because he's under 21, and the other for driving with a blood alcohol over .08.

Early Saturday morning, an officer was on Curtis Bridge Road near Lowes Motel and had another vehicle speed by him going the other direction, about 60 in the 45 mile an hour zone according to the officer. The officer spun around and pulled in behind the Grand Am at the traffic light for Highway 421. The officer got the driver pulled over, but not without a bit of concern because it seemed the man was forgetting to put the car in park. Once he was fully stopped, the officer asked the man for ID -- he said he had none -- and a driver's license -- he didn't have one of those, either. He identified himself as Jimmie Christmas of North Wilkesboro. He said the car was his -- but when the officer ran the tag and Vehicle ID number, they came back to a woman in Statesville. According to the officer, Christmas was obviously drunk. He was staggering around before he was handcuffed, and later at the jail he fell asleep several times while waiting for the breath test. An ID on him matched the name he gave police, but they had to run it as a Driver's License to get the number to match. Then they found out his license had been revoked for -- you guessed it -- DUI. On the roadside, Christmas tested with a blood alcohol of .15, nearly double the legal limit. He refused the test at the jail, and is being held on driving on a revoked license, driving while impaired, and speeding.

A third man tried to give officers a Honduran National drivers license a his ID. Jose Padilla, who spoke little English, was pulled over after an officer saw him nearly hit another car Saturday afternoon. After pulling Padilla over at near Brushy MOuntain Road, the officer asked him for his license, and was given the Honduran license which was in the correct name, but the officer believed was a fake. It took the officer several tries to actually find the name Padilla was licensed under in the US, but when he did, he found the man had his license revoked after multiple DUI arrests. Apparently, Padilla was not drunk this time, though, as the charges filed all related to his driving on a revoked license and the assumed fake ID.

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