At approximately 3:35 pm Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Deputies, as well as German and Perry Township Fire Departments were dispatched to 2814 Harmony Way in reference to a van that had crashed into a house.
Larry Joe Sanders (53) of Evansville was south bound on Harmony Way when he failed to negotiate a curve and ran off of the left and stuck the residence of Keith Vonderahe.
Sanders 1993 Chevy Van came to rest inside a bedroom shared by Vonderahe’s 8 and 10 year old daughters. The Vonderahe’s had just returned home when the accident occurred however no one was in the room and no injuries were sustained.
Sanders failed a battery of field sobriety tests at the scene of the accident and was transported to the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center where he submitted to a breath test. Sanders tested .18 BAC and was arrested for OMVWI and booked into the Confinement Center. Sanders was also found in possession of various pills in which he did not have a prescription in which we was also charged.
ARRESTED:
Larry Jo Sanders
W/M 01/26/1960
5122 New Harmony Road
CHARGES:
OMVWI Class A Misdemeanor
Possession of Schedule III Narcotic D Fel
Possession of Schedule IV Narcotic D Fel