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Off-Duty Cop Helps Catch Suspected Drunk Driver

By Conaway and Strickler

A police officer who was off-duty reportedly, warned Cobb County officials about a suspected drunk driver who they say has had several drunk driving violations in the past. Officials ended up arresting this driver, but not before he tried to take off and then hit a vehicle injuring two children, according to a news article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Police arrested Christopher Wade Payne after he crashed into 41-year-old Annie McKelly?s van. The Marietta woman was driving with her 10-year-old twins ? a boy and a girl in the back seat of her 1993 Plymouth Voyager. Both children were taken to an Atlanta area hospital. The girl had a broken ankle, but the boy had serious head injuries, the newspaper reported. Another sibling, a 11-year-old boy who was in the front passenger seat, was not hurt, the article said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on November 09, 2007 (boomark / email).