By Sarah Nagem
snagem@salisburypost.com
Police arrested a Mooresville man for driving drunk Tuesday night after he struck a deputy sheriff’s cruiser with his vehicle.
Michael David Lewis, 36, of 2352 Kerr St., was charged with driving while impaired, not having an operator’s license and committing a moving violation.
Lewis registered a reading of .08 ó the minimum legal limit ó on the breathalyzer, according to information obtained at the Rowan County Magistrate’s Office.
At around 9 p.m., Lewis was driving a 2000 Dodge pickup in the passing lane on Mooresville Road near the intersection of Jake Alexander Boulevard, said Salisbury Police Officer J.R. Fox.
Rowan County Sheriff’s Master Deputy J.T. Allen was traveling in a Charger in the right-hand lane, Fox said.
Lewis struck Allen’s vehicle when he swerved to the right to turn into the Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot, Fox said.
Allen was not injured. Neither was Lewis nor his passenger, Tony Moore, of Troutman.
Moore was charged with possession of marijuana after officers found 26 grams of the drug under the passenger’s seat of the truck, Fox said. He said the sheriff’s vehicle sustained about $2,500 in damage.
“(The deputy) was not pleased,” Fox said.