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| Motorized shopping cart |
A man was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after he was caught driving drunk on a shopping cart, according to police reports in Alaska.
Police arrested the Alaska man they said was driving a motorized shopping cart while intoxicated and was in possession of stolen cookies and cake mix.
Merrill K. Moses, 63, was charged this week in Fairbanks on charges of drunk driving, theft and refusing to take an official sobriety test.
An employee at the grocery store called police Wednesday night after seeing Moses drive in the parking lot. The employee was concerned that Moses would collide with a car.
"When an officer arrived, an employee of the store was holding the handlebar basket to keep the suspect from driving further," Sergeant Bruce Barnette of the Fairbanks Police Department said.
Another employee told police that the man was drinking while driving the motorized shopping cart, and that it was not his first time doing so. He has previously run over employees who tried to stop him, he told police.
Barnette said Moses did not seem to be disabled, but he could not stand without help on Wednesday night. One test measured the alcohol content in his breath at 0.31, almost four times the legal limit of 0.08 percent. He later refused to provide a breath sample at police headquarters.
Moses was charged with burglary because his cart allegedly contained items that he did not pay for, including chocolate chip cookies and Betty Crocker cake mix.
Moses has a long criminal history, including a driving under the influence conviction in 2011. He also has convictions for domestic assault, public drinking, open container, burglary and theft.