By Joe Johnson
published Monday, August 5, 2013
onlineathens.com



U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials placed a hold on an Athens man arrested Saturday night following a drunken hit-and-run accident.

Arturo Chamorro-Garduno, 49, a Mexican national who did not have a driver’s license, struck three parked cars in a North Bluff Road driveway and left the scene, Athens-Clarke police said.

Police said he failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway.

The owner of one of the damaged cars followed Chamorro-Garduno’s Jeep to his home nearby at 350 North Bluff Road. The victim then called police, who arrived and arrested the man.

Chamorro-Garduno, who told officers he had consumed about six beers prior to the accident, had a blood-alcohol concentration of .193 percent, police said.

When officers placed him under arrest, they searched Chamorro-Garduno and discovered he had cocaine on him, according to police.

Authorities charged him with DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, possession of cocaine, improper driving, possession of open containers in a vehicle and driving without a license.

Police took him to the Clarke County Jail, where ICE officials placed a hold on Chamorro-Garduno for a future deportation hearing.

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