DUI suspect after wreck tries to deny driving

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DUI suspect after wreck tries to deny driving

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Wednesday, February 8. 2012

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After driving fast with no headlights on and ramming a vehicle stopped at a stop sign, a 20-year-old Commerce man tried to convince the driver of the other vehicle that someone else was behind the wheel.

It didn’t work.

Police charged Johnny Blake McDaniel, 348 Victoria Street, with driving under the influence (DUI) of drugs, hit and run, following too closely, driving too fast for conditions and failure to use headlights a half hour past sunset.

According to the incident report, 911 dispatched the officer to a traffic accident without injuries at the corner of Shankle Heights and Elizabeth Street. The dispatcher said the drivers were fighting. When he arrived, the officer saw a black male holding a white male down on the ground.

McDaniel was the subject on the ground. The driver of the other vehicle, a 35-year-old white male, explained that he and Eunice G. Tarpkins, 43, 44 Land Way, were stopped at the stop sign when McDaniel plowed into the back of their vehicle. He told the officer McDaniel was driving fast and without headlights.

The driver said he got out, asked McDaniel how fast McDaniel had been driving, then went back to his vehicle to get a flashlight to inspect for damage. When he got to the back of his car, he said McDaniel was standing on the roadway 10 feet away and claimed that he was a spectator to the crash — that the car was not his and he was not driving. The man also said he saw McDaniel go back to the car, get something out and begin to walk away, at which time he tackled him and asked Tarpkins to hold him down until police arrived.

The officer noted that McDaniel appeared to be under the influence of something and had glassy and droopy eyes.

The report said McDaniel refused to take the state blood test.

The night didn’t turn out so well for Tarpkins either. He was arrested on a Banks County warrant for probation violation.

For all of the arrests reported for the past week by the Commerce Police Department, see the Feb. 8 edition of The Commerce News.

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#1 anonymous on 02/08/12 at 08:36 PM [Reply]

Apparently Commerce News needs to do a little more investigation before printing a story. Johnny was charged with DUI drugs but after further testing after he was sent to Jackson County Jail did not test positive for drugs! Maybe the story needs to be about how Jackson County released him back to the streets of Commerce with no bond. If he was such a hardened criminal to print a story about how did he get dropped off in Commerce again by A Jackson County Deputy.

#1.1 Anonymous on 02/10/12 at 10:19 AM [Reply]

Johnny must've been charged, he was in the Bold and the Beautiful.

#2 Cosmo Kramer on 02/09/12 at 06:00 AM [Reply]

simply hilarious. They got two birds with one stone. Love it.

#3 Anonymous on 02/09/12 at 10:42 AM [Reply]

Apparently you think that Jackson County Jail can test for drugs. Only a hospital blood draw can detect drugs, not a jail intoxilyzer. Therefore, her refused the test. Refusal is as good as admission of guilt. Same as a person who is confirmed DUI. Makes bond and is released. Maybe you sir, should get the facts before you show your stupidity.

#3.1 Anonymous on 02/11/12 at 06:14 PM [Reply]

Maybe you would think I am showing my stupidity but I know for a fact that Jackson County had him transported to Athens Regional for that test. Sorry I didn't feel the need to disclose ALL of the facts detail by detail! So for you there is your facts. Oh btw the tox screen came back negative for any drugs or alcohol!

#3.1.1 Anonymous on 02/13/12 at 01:15 PM [Reply]

So you know they took him to Athens Regional? Why would Jackson county take him to Athens for a basic drug screen when they could do the same thing at Northridge? Hmmmm. I think somebody is lying.

#4 Anonymous on 02/13/12 at 07:56 AM [Reply]

If the tox screen came back negative, then that means there was no chemical reason for him to be driving without headlights, slamming into someone and then trying to make it look like he was a spectator? So what you're basically saying is he's just a moron.

#5 oops on 02/13/12 at 10:06 AM [Reply]

Well, he had one thing correct. It was NOT his car he was driving. And if a drug test was completed, there's no possible way that boy passed without any drugs or alcohol in his system. For one, he's taking medications to control being crazy, not to mention his recreational drugs he does on the side. They should not have given him a bond. Maybe what he needs is to learn his lesson. This is not his first run in with the law, and more than likely will not be his last.

#5.1 jack on 02/14/12 at 06:54 PM [Reply]

I DO NOT KNOW Johnny But was reading online news when i came across this.And do not know you but i do know you should be ashamed of yourself for calling anyone crazy.That is an illiness and have you ever seen anyone go to bed and next day not even know their name.So much stress can do anything to your mind and body.I will pray for Johnny but sir or madam or whoever i will be especilly senting up lots of prayers for you.

#5.1.1 my oh my on 02/15/12 at 10:56 AM [Reply]

Well, Jack, I DO know Johnny and it's not that he's got a medical condition, it's the drugs he's been doing that have made him that way. Not stress. He's got some serious issues that maybe a little time in Jackson County would have helped him with.

#5.1.2 His dad on 02/17/12 at 08:50 PM [Reply]

I wish everyone would really just mind their own business. You don't know anything about my son. He is a very good kid going through a hard time in his life. It happens! As a father I couldn't be prouder of his accomplishments in life and have not wrote him off! Come step in my shoes for a while, heck step in his shoes. He had both his grandparents die on him an uncle die on him whom he was close too and his mother battled cancer. The whole time he kept marching on making good grades in school and getting into college. Those so called people who claim to know him are probably the same people that called themselves his friends and when things went bad abandoned him! Oh and about this piece of junk of a car.. If it wasnt cause his mother and I went to help the girl repo the car from the other people she had sold it to she probably still wouldn't have it. It doesn't state anywhere either that he sold his car so that they could all go together on a trip to Florida. But anyway I am sure everyone has there opinion but those that know me personally know that I love my family and will stick by them! If you don't like that sorry find some way to deal with it!

#5.1.2.1 for heavens sake on 02/23/12 at 11:30 AM [Reply]

If you want everyone to mind their own business, maybe you should tell your son NOT to get arrested. This is a PUBLIC forum, just as all arrest records are. And he may be going through a hard time, but that's no excuse for ignorance and incompitance. He mad the choice to get out of the car and try to lie about it instead of being an ADULT about the situation and staying in the car and admitting his mistake. Also, I'm glad your proud of your son for his accomplishments, and it's great he made it to college, but college didn't give him the intelligence to not ram a car he hadn't paid off into someone elses vehicle. Also, since you want to mention that "piece of junk car", it was HIS choice to sell his car simply so he could go on a vacation. Again, not a very intelligent move. And the young girl he got the vehicle from is a smart young woman, I'm sure she'd have figured out a way to get her car back. And you might need to continue to stick by your children; after this I have a feeling he's going to need all the support he can get.

#6 Anonymous on 02/13/12 at 06:41 PM [Reply]

Its funny how people think they know EVERYTHING. Yes he did pass a drug test and yes it WAS his car. If he was doing recreational drugs it would have showed up on the test. This was the FIRST run in he has ever had with the law.as for the medication for being crazy DUDE your just mad because there is NO medication you can take for being STUPID!!!

#6.1 ignorant on 02/15/12 at 11:02 AM [Reply]

No one said they knew EVERYTHING. He may have passed a drug test, but that doesn't mean he's not doing them. There are ways around that. And I know for a fact that the only reason he has that car is because the girl who was selling it to him put it in his name before he paid her. Not a smart move on her part considering she's out a car. And no, it's not his first run in with the law, either. How about the night he tried to throw the roommate out and took her car keys and locked her out? Maybe you didn't know he called the police, cursed at them when they knocked, then got EVICTED for acting like an idiot. I may be on the outside looking in, but by looking in you observe the behaviors of those around you. And you tend to know a lot more than people think you do.

#6.2 Anonymous on 02/17/12 at 08:17 AM [Reply]

Drug tests aren't instant. A legal blood draw has to be sent to a state approved lab and the results are returned at a later date. Doesn't happen right then and he wouldn't be told the results right away. Quit digging your hole deeper. We already see you are trying to make him look like an angel.

#6.2.1 snoopy on 02/20/12 at 07:05 PM [Reply]

Are you a lawyer? You sure act like you know a lot for a person on the outside looking in.HUUM

#6.2.1.1 Anonymous on 02/24/12 at 01:21 PM [Reply]

No, I'm not a lawyer, but I do know a little bit about the law. The majority of this is common sense, I can't help that some people don't have the mental compasity to understand it.

#6.2.1.2 jayzee on 02/28/12 at 05:43 AM [Reply]

Nah I ain't pass the bar but I know a little bit
Enough that you won't illegally search my shit

#7 mercy me on 02/23/12 at 11:31 AM [Reply]

Also, going through touch times in your life is no excuse to break the law. Everyone goes through tough times. Me,I've been through them myself, but I'm not out running my car into other people then claiming I wasn't even driving.

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