Suspected drunk driver found far off course

Columbus police say that a suspected drunk driver they arrested Thursday was far away from where he thought he was.

Police were called to National Road on a report of a possible drunk driver. They found 36-year-old Philip L. Keeling of LaPorte, trying to turn around in a driveway in the 600 block of National Road. When talking to police, he was slurring his words and appeared intoxicated, says Lt. Matt Harris, spokesman for the Columbus police. And when police asked him where he was, Keeling thought he was just south of Kokomo, Harris says.

Keeling was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital to have his blood drawn and it was allegedly .251 percent, about three times the legal limit. He was arrested on a preliminary charge of driving while intoxicated.