Rusk County cracking down on DWIs
With a zero tolerance approach from local law enforcement and increasingly steep sentences from jurors, Rusk County is taking a hard line against driving while intoxicated.
“There’s no excuse for it, especially in this day and age, to be on the road if you’ve been drinking,” said Henderson native Johnny Rousseau, who served on a jury in a DWI case earlier this year. “In this day and age of smart phones and texting, it’s so easy to reach someone if you need a ride if you’ve been drinking […] there’s absolutely no reason to drive drunk, unless you just don’t care or think you can get away with it.”
But local authorities say getting away with it is not easy in Rusk County.
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