Ice cream truck driver faces DUI charge

Ice cream truck driver faces DUI charge
ENQUIRER STAFF REPORT
August 10, 2007

FLORENCE – An ice cream truck driver has been charged with drunken driving after customers complained he was drinking on the job.
Police spotted a yellow ice cream truck driving erratically Monday evening on Hopeful Church Road, Florence police spokesman Capt. Linny Cloyd said.

The driver, Shelby Dunigan II, smelled of alcohol and failed a field sobriety test, Cloyd said. Dunigan refused to take breathalyzer tests at the scene and at the Boone County jail.

A woman passenger in the ice cream truck told officers Dunigan had eight or nine beers since noon, Cloyd said. There was a cooler of empty beer cans – and one full can – found inside the truck.
Dunigan told officers he worked for Captain Tom’s ice cream in Burlington, but no one could be reached at that business Friday morning.

Dunigan, 37, of Florence was released from jail Tuesday afternoon. The day he is scheduled to appear in Boone District Court was not immediately available.

Additional complaints were made about a man driving a similar looking ice cream truck on Thursday. Officers stopped the truck in Lincoln Woods Park but said the driver was sober.