Sheriff’s Office officials reported that deputies saw Cheramie driving a lawn mower on the shoulder of the highway just after midnight Saturday morning. As they watched, he swerved into a lane of traffic and back onto the shoulder, the deputies said.
They pulled Cheramie over, at which point he admitted that he drank several beers before getting on the lawn mower, authorities said.
Cheramie also did badly on a field sobriety test. A breath test indicated he had a blood alcohol concentration of .144 percent, well over the legal limit of .08 percent.
He was booked into the parish jail, where he remained in lieu of $2,800 bond on Tuesday.
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