A drunken man was arrested Monday when he tried to take his child home following an elementary school play, according to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office.
William Sloan was booked in the county jail on a DUI charge following his arrest Monday at Rocky Branch Elementary School, Sheriff Scott Berry told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Sloan was at nearby North Oconee High School for a play put on by the elementary school when teachers noticed his “disruptive behavior” and detected the smell of alcohol, Berry said.
After the play, the sheriff said Sloan drove to the elementary school in an attempt to pick up his child, who had participated in the production.
“He was driving from the high school to the primary school and was about to load his kid in the car and go home,” Berry said. “And that wasn’t going to happen.”
Deputies arrested Sloan outside the elementary school after they found he had a blood alcohol level above Georgia’s legal limit of 0.08.
“He went .214 on the Intox machine,” Berry wrote in the post.
The school notified someone else on the list of people approved to pick up Sloan’s child. Sloan was not released from jail until 8:10 p.m. Monday on a $2,000 bond, Berry said.
“I’ve been sheriff for 27 years,” he said. “I can’t think of a time where we’ve arrested a parent at a school play.”
