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 Post subject: County employee suspended after monster truck festival
PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:08 am 
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LAPORTE | A LaPorte County Highway Department employee has been suspended from his job for allegedly playing monster truck driver in a county-owned vehicle after a weekend show.

Bryan Batchelor, 38, of Kingsbury, a general foreman with the LaPorte County Highway Department is charged with operating while intoxicated.

According to LaPorte County police, the Friday night edition of the RPM Fest at the LaPorte County fairgrounds had just finished and monster trucks were leaving the crowded show arena when a LaPorte County Highway Department extended cab pick up started jumping the dirt mounds used by the monster trucks as ramps for their high flying stunts.

Officers on foot chased after Batchelor as he was driving off the track on Grandstand Drive, police said.

After pulling over, police said Batchelor was found to have a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.12.

He was off-duty and driving a take home vehicle, officials said.

LaPorte County Highway Department Superintendent Bob Young said Batchelor has been suspended from his job indefinitely.

A final decision on his job status will be made once Young and the LaPorte County commissioners review the case. - By Stan Maddux, Times Correspondent


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