Bowling Green Police Division responded to a crash Sunday at 1:15 a.m., to find a Jeep with heavy front-end damage and a pickup that had been pushed up onto the grass in the 300 block of South Prospect Street.
Police charged the driver of the Jeep, Alexander Messenger, 22, of Bowling Green, with OVI and failure to maintain reasonable control of a vehicle.
When police arrived on the scene, a resident told officers that a man who exited one of the vehicles was inside her home. According to the police report, the woman said “the gentleman ran up into my house.” She said she didn’t know the man and her children were inside the residence.
Officers entered the house and saw two men in the living room. Both were ordered to get on the ground and put their hands behind their backs. It was discovered one of the men was a resident of the home, and his handcuffs were removed.
After talking further with the residents, the woman explained that she invited the driver into their home, and wanted to help with the cut on his face. She said Messenger tried to give her his car keys.
Messenger told police he was the driver of the Jeep, and had been consuming alcohol. He was taken to the hospital for a cut above his eye, then taken to the Wood County jail.
