Columbiana Co. sheriff faces OVI, other charges


October 12, 2007 at 11:13p.m.

Columbiana Co. sheriff faces OVI, other charges

LISBON — Columbiana County’s highest ranking law enforcement officer is charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and authorities say he tried to talk his way out of it.

Sheriff David L. Smith will be in Cambridge Municipal Court in a Guernsey County on Wednesday for a hearing.

According to reports from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, state troopers clocked Smith traveling at 81 mph in a 65 mph zone just after 9:30 p.m. Thursday on Interstate 70 in Guernsey County.

Smith, reports said, passed up other vehicles and nearly made contact with a tractor-trailer going the same direction.

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