{"id":119398,"date":"2022-04-27T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=119398"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:44:02","slug":"taylor-mississippi-man-arrested-for-dui-4th-obstructing-traffic-disorderly-conduct-and-resisting-arrest-after-passing-out-while-driving-on-highway-7-in-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/taylor-mississippi-man-arrested-for-dui-4th-obstructing-traffic-disorderly-conduct-and-resisting-arrest-after-passing-out-while-driving-on-highway-7-in-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor, Mississippi Man Arrested for DUI 4th  Obstructing Traffic, Disorderly Conduct, and Resisting\u00a0Arrest After Passing Out While Driving on Highway 7 in Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the evening of April 25, 2022, the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> was dispatched to <strong>Highway 7<\/strong>\u00a0at the <strong>Highway 6<\/strong> crossover for a report of a truck stopped in the intersection with a male inside who\u00a0appeared to be asleep at the wheel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers arrived and found the driver, <strong>Eddie Antonio Booker Jr<\/strong>, 39, of <strong>Taylor, Mississippi<\/strong>, was passed out in the driver&#8217;s seat with it still in drive. Officers were able to get\u00a0him out and after a brief struggle were able to get him into custody. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Booker was charged with felony DUI 4th, obstructing traffic, disorderly conduct, and resisting\u00a0arrest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Mississippi Department of Corrections<\/strong> placed a hold on Booker for a parole violation. A bond has not been set at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eddie-Booker-Jr..jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eddie-Booker-Jr..jpg?resize=640%2C470\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eddie-Booker-Jr..jpg?resize=1024%2C752&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eddie-Booker-Jr..jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eddie-Booker-Jr..jpg?resize=768%2C564&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eddie-Booker-Jr..jpg?w=1125&amp;ssl=1 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Eddie Antonio Booker Jr, \u00a039, of Taylor, Mississippi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of April 25, 2022, the Oxford Police Department was dispatched to Highway 7\u00a0at the Highway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":119399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[14551,21347,4170,2244,5,4,2092,78],"class_list":["post-119398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-dui-4th","tag-eddie-antonio-booker-jr","tag-highway-6","tag-highway-7","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-taylor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Eddie-Booker-Jr..jpg?fit=1125%2C826&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}