Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Jeremiah Alan Boles, 26, was arrested early yesterday morning and charged with DUI with property damage after allegedly driving while impaired and hitting an occupied crane on South Main Street.

At about 7:06 a.m. on June 7, a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to a crash in the 200 block of S. Main Street and found a Toyota Corolla that had crashed into a stationary crane; the Corolla was severely damaged, including a roof that had been almost entirely torn off by the impact.

The officer noted that the driver, identified as Boles, had red, watery eyes and droopy eyelids.

Post Miranda, Boles reportedly said he had just finished his shift at Five Star Pizza and had been drinking at work.

The officer reported that Boles performed poorly on field sobriety exercises, and his breath samples, provided later at the jail, measured 0.272 and 0.277 g/210L, over three times the legal limit.

Boles’s co-worker was reportedly following him in another vehicle and saw him hit the crane.

Two workers were in the crane’s bucket, about five stories in the air, when the car hit the crane; a third worker was directing traffic and reportedly told the officer that the Corolla passed him at a high rate of speed before hitting the crane.

Boles has been charged with DUI with property damage; he has no local criminal history, and Judge Susan Miller-Jones ordered him released on his own recognizance.

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