Disturbance Leads to DUI Arrest

A Wilkes man was jailed for drunken driving, after deputies responded twice to his daughter's home because of disturbances reported there. 57-year old Roger Lee Caudill was arrested as he arrived at his own home, a few houses down the road from where his daughter lives. The deputy responding to the disturbance call had been notified by dispatchers that Caudill had left his daughter's home in a small white car, and the officer saw him pull into his own driveway. When both men got out of their cars, the deputy says Caudill had a strong odor of alcohol, and their conversation was enough for the deputy to determine Caudill was drunk. When he was tested at the jail, he blew more than twice the legal limit for a driver -- testing with a .17 and a .18 in successive breath tests.