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Throwing beer can at police station leads to DUI
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Three people were arrested, one for drunk driving, after police officers standing in front of the police station witnessed one of the partying youths throwing a beer can onto the lawn of police headquarters.Arrested were the car’s driver, Ethan Womack, and his passengers, Justin McDowell and William Drake. Womack has since entered a guilty plea to drunk driving. McDowell was fined for public intoxication and Drake is awaiting hearing.The arrests come for an incident which happened outside police headquarters around 4 a.m. while officers were standing outside the building.“I saw the car pass the police department and we could hear the subjects in the car yelling out of the car,” said McMinnville Police Lt. John Morgan in his report.