Okemah officer arrested for DUI after allegedly wrecking truck

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) — An officer found himself on the other side of the law and it's not the first time. This time, the Okemah officer's gear and weapons were found in his destroyed truck, along with empty beer cans.

We first told you about Officer David Young last year, when the then-Seminole Police officer was allegedly intoxicated and backed up into another car.

"There ain't no getting past anything like this," said Young to Pottawatomie County deputies.

On Friday, Pottawatomie County deputies said they spotted Young's damaged truck, split open like a sardine can, airbags deployed, and running on rims.

"He actually heard him first. He heard a noise, like a grinding noise," said Sheriff Mike Booth.

Young pulled into a local bar with the deputy's lights not too far behind him. Meanwhile, Young casually stumbles inside, then tossing what deputies said appears to be a bottle of Febreeze over the bar.

"He told the bartender, 'I never left. I was here the whole time,'" said Andrew Browning, one of the three arresting deputies.

Eventually, deputies got the 37-year-old cuffed and in the back of a patrol car. At first, Young denied it was him behind the wheel.

Young: "I wasn't driving."
Deputy: "You said you were."
Young: "He saw me sitting by the door of a bar.
Deputy: "He seen you driving by."
Young: "He saw me?"

That excuse didn't hold up for long.

"Doors are locked. Keys are on him," the deputy said after fishing out the keys from Young's pockets.

Inside the truck, deputies found numerous items from the force, like his bulletproof vest.

"That's not his no more. He ain't going to be a cop anymore," a deputy said.

They also found his police rifle, a full magazine, and pistol.

"And one in the chamber," said a deputy.

On the floorboard, deputies found his Okemah Police badge, body camera, and radio wet with beer.

"It was covered in alcohol next to an empty can of Michelob Ultra," said Browning.

And finally, a 12-pack of beer, four cans shy of being full.

"Guess what? There's an open container," said a deputy.

With the evidence stacked up against him, Young came clean.

"Hey, you're a cop, you get it. I got a job to do. You would do the same to me," said an arresting deputy.

Young: "I'm guilty."
Deputy: "What are you guilty for?"
Young: "I'm guilty for whatever you say I done did."
Deputy: "That was you driving?"
Young: "Yep. 100%"

"If you could, keep that off the f***ing internet," said Young.

While News 4 was talking to the sheriff and deputies, Young returned our call. He didn't have too much to add besides saying he was "screwed."

The sheriff and his deputies hope Young finds help, because this incident could've had a very different ending.

"I'm not too empathetic with someone who's going to put other people's lives at risk," said Browning.

Deputies never figured out where exactly Young wrecked his truck. Young told deputies he truly didn't know.

News 4 called the Okemah Police Department to ask if Young was ever employed there, if he was still employed there, and if they had anything to add. The department said "we have no comment."