Within Same Weekend, Virginia Man Receives Two DUIs

An Abingdon man who crashed into a state trooper in Smyth County on Friday, February 1 and received charges of drunken driving as a result was placed under arrest a second time two days later, on Sunday, February 3, and charged with intoxication in public and possession of drugs, the Virginia state police said.

A police officer from Chilhowie pulled a vehicle in which Barry Dean Marshall II was a passenger over shortly after 2:00 a.m. Mike Conroy, a spokesman for the Virginia State Police, says that the officer stopped the car because he had earlier received a notification from the Sheriff's Office of Smyth County of an erratically driven vehicle. According to what the arrest warrant said, the vehicle was spotted heading north on Interstate 81 by the officer.

The driver, 21-year-old Traci Peake, was arrested by Chilhowie police and charged with driving under the influence.

Deputies from Smyth County assisting with the stop arrested 32-year-old Marshall during the incident and charged him with public intoxication and possession of drugs with intent to manufacture or sell, according to the arrest warrant.

Conroy said that recently before this arrest, Marshall received DUI charges after striking trooper K.S. Chapman with his vehicle only a few miles down the road from where the second incident took place.