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Aaron Vohlers

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Florida Man Arrested For Public Intoxication After Landscape Bushes Were Destroyed

The information in this story comes from the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. An arrest doesn't mean a conviction.

  A man from Orlando, Fla., was arrested early Saturday morning on Clayton Street when police investigated a report that someone was tearing up landscape bushes, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report. Police found Aaron Vohlers, 22, at about 2:30 a.m. lying on his back in landscape bushes and dirt in "an intoxicated condition with pieces of shrub all over the sidewalk and road." Another person with him helped Vohlers to his feet when he saw police coming. After checking Vohlers ID, Vohlers said that he had "a little" to drink. When police asked him why he was tearing up bushes, he said that he was not. Vohlers also said although he had not destroyed the bushes, "some were broken by his merely laying on them in the landscape …

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