Another Minnesota DWI for Man Not Driving Car

Defendant was sitting in his car in a hotel parking lot when arrested fro drunk driving in MN.

A Rochester man was charged with driving while intoxicated in Minnesota after police found him in his car. However the man’s car was parked on the street in front of a Holiday Inn and he was simply sitting in the driver’s seat at the time.

Justin Allen Stock was arrested around 2:50 in the morning after a Holiday Inn security guard saw him around the property and alerted police. Stock was found in his vehicle though he denied having operated the car while intoxicated. The police said it did not matter and charged him with drunk driving.

A spokesperson with the Rochester Police Department said that a motorist is in control of a vehicle if they have the keys with them. The keys don’t even have to be in the driver’s possession; they just have to be in the vehicle.

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