HARTFORD, KY (WFIE) -
UPDATE: ALL charges against Roger Woodford have now been dropped due to "insufficient evidence." Woodford tells us his lab results came back clean, with "no sign of drugs or alcohol."
In March of 2012, Woodford, The driver of an ice cream truck in Ohio County was pulled over and charged with driving under the influence.
Larry Mofield was taking his kids to McDonalds when he saw a strange picture. An ice cream truck pulled over by Hartford Police.
"They had the driver of the ice cream truck out trying to walk a straight line and he wasn't doing a very good job," said Mofield.
Police say it happened on Main Street in Hartford, and the driver had crossed the yellow line several times.
"He did fail the field sobriety test and admitted to taking some Xanax," said Hartford Police Department Chief Leroy Embry.
The driver was 37-year-old Roger Woodford, and police charged him with driving under the influence.
"At first I thought it was funny, but as I thought about it as I took the kids to McDonalds and was thinking about it could have hurt somebody. It could have been my grandkids or it could have been somebody else's grandkids. He could have run over a kid," said Mofield.
"It could have been catastrophic. He drives though the back streets where all the kids are out playing," said Embry.
Mofield says he'll think twice again before letting his grandchildren buy from an ice cream truck.
"Ice cream trucks are supposed to be safe. Not suppose to worry about it, you know, suppose to be there for kids to buy ice cream. You've got to have doubt now, and that's sad when you've come to a place in this world when you have to have doubt about our ice cream people. So it is a sad world and I hate to see the guy, you know, I think about it, it might be the guys only job," said Mofield.
Woodford has bonded out of jail and no word yet on a court date.
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SOURCE: Ohio County Jail
