Adams man draws probation, for driving combine, drunk
Law officers say the farm implement forced drivers off the road, to avoid being hit
By News Channel Nebraska
BEATRICE – A 33-year-old Adams man must serve a probation term after being convicted of third-offense driving under the influence of alcohol. He was operating a combine at the time.
Jerrod Dorn was sentenced in Gage County District Court Wednesday morning, to a three-year term of probation….including a 60-day jail term to start July 23rd.
Dorn also had his driver’s license revoked for a ten-year period but will be allowed to drive if he obtains an ignition interlock device. Gage County District Judge Rick Schreiner also fined Dorn $1,000 and ordered that he submit to 90 days of continuous alcohol monitoring. Under the conviction, Dorn could have received up to three years in prison.
Jerrod Dorn was arrested in April of 2021 after Gage County Sheriff’s officers received a report of a tractor southbound on South 134th Road that was all over the road, with oncoming cars having to avoid the machine by driving into the ditch.
A deputy later saw a red combine pull up to U.S. Highway 136 and South 134th Road at the village of Filley. It then traveled west on Hoyt Road, nearly hitting a stop sign and a guardrail and weaving from one side of the road to the other.
The operator of the combine pulled into a residence along Lilac Road, where the driver exited the machine and stumbled. The driver, Dorn, registered an alcohol breath test of point-2-3-1, nearly three times the legal standard for driving drunk.
Dorn had previously been convicted of D-U-I in 2009, 2010 and 2015.