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INDIANAPOLIS STAR LEBANON, INDIANA A man with a blood-alcohol count more than four times the legal limit drove his vehicle into the Lebanon Police Department parking lot just after midnight Monday, a spokesman said today. Officers Ryan Batts and Aaron Altier were outside the department talking about a case early Tuesday morning when they saw a vehicle strike the curb hard as it pulled into the parking lot. Batts and Altier walked over to see if the driver, Zachary S. Phillips, 23, Lebanon, needed help. The two officers believed Phillips was drunk and performed field sobriety tests, department spokesman Lt. Brent Wheat said in news release. Phillips later was taken to Witham Hospital, where his blood-alcohol content was determined to be 0.33, police said. Indiana's threshold for driving drunk is .08. Phillips was later booked into the Boone County Jail, charged with operating while intoxicated, operating with a blood-alcohol count of at least 0.15 percent or greater, and public intoxication. Phillips was not a stranger to the police department. He'd applied for a job there. The police spokesman said Phillips' application would be discarded. It was not immediately known why Phillips was visiting the police department. The police spokesman could not be immediately reached today.
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