{"id":103540,"date":"2011-06-23T06:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=103540"},"modified":"2011-06-24T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:19:50","slug":"man-passed-out-in-drive-thru-charged-with-3rd-dwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=103540","title":{"rendered":"Man Passed Out in Drive-Thru Charged with 3rd DWI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=103541\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103541\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/06\/DocumentFragment_3157896-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DocumentFragment_3157896\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-103541\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 A Gladewater man was arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge after police said he was found passed out in his truck in the Whataburger drive-thru. Leon Charles Gearhart, 49 was released from jail on $5,000 bond, charged with driving while intoxicated, third offense. Longview Police arrested Gearhart around 2:45 Tuesday morning after a Whataburger employee in the 2400 block of Gilmer Road reported that a man was passed out in his vehicle in the drive-thru.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said when police arrived, Gearhart was found asleep in a truck with the vehicle still in drive. The officer put the truck in park, turned off the truck and woke up the driver. Police said he refused part of a sobriety test. Gearhart was transported to the jail for suspicion of driving while intoxicated and a mandatory blood sample was drawn because he had two prior convictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 A Gladewater man was arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge after police said he was found passed out in his truck in the Whataburger drive-thru. Leon Charles Gearhart, 49 was released from jail on $5,000 bond, charged with driving while intoxicated, third offense. Longview Police arrested Gearhart around 2:45 Tuesday morning after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=103540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Passed Out in Drive-Thru Charged with 3rd DWI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 21:36:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103540"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103883,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103540\/revisions\/103883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}