Crime & Safety
Police: Elderly Man Arrested for DUI After Crashing Golf Cart Into Tree
The man was found passed out on some nearby grass, according to sheriff's officials.
A 73-year-old La Quinta man was arrested Monday for allegedly crashing a golf cart into a tree at the PGA West country club while intoxicated.
Riverside County sheriff's deputies went to the main gate of the golf club on PGA Boulevard in La Quinta shortly before 2:30 a.m., where a woman told security staff she had passed out on the golf course. She said she'd been with a man, later identified as Gary Osborn, who was found passed out on the grass in front of a home in the 55-200 block of Big Spring, sheriff's Sgt. Jessica Vanderhoof said.
"A golf cart was located next to Osborn, which had collided with a tree. There was also fresh collision damage to the cart barn garage door at the residence," Vanderhoof said.
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She said neither Osborn nor the woman, who were uninjured, lived at the home where the crash occurred.
Osborn was taken to a hospital before he was taken to jail in Indio. He was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and was being held in lieu of $2,500 bail, according to jail records.
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