A North Carolina man refused to provide a urine sample after his erratic driving on his way to see his mother.
Jason Edwin Dunaway, 55, of Charlotte, N.C., was driving a Jeep SUV with North Carolina license plates at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday when he began following a Sumter County sheriff’s deputy. Dunaway followed the patrol vehicle for 20 miles, from the Marion County line to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Annex in Coleman. While he was following the deputy, he was traveling at an “unsafe and close distance the whole way.” When they reached the annex, the deputy got out of his vehicle and approached Dunaway.
Dunaway had bloodshot eyes and was grinding his teeth, according to an arrest report. He said he was on his way “to visit his mother near Orlando.” He said they had planned to “go to Disney.”
The deputy asked Dunaway if he had been drinking, but Dunaway claimed he had “not had a drink in years.” He said he had a stroke “several years ago.”…