Police report: Beer in hand, he backs into 2010
A Memphis man went to jail New Year’s Day on a rash of charges after police found him drinking a 40-ounce beer while driving backward down a city street with a marijuana plant on the front seat.At about 9 a.m. Friday, officers responded to a complaint that Tyrone Buckley, 51, was driving drunk around a parking lot in the 1000 block of Court in the Medical Center area.
According to an affidavit, officers spotted Buckley driving backward on nearby Waldran Boulevard.
According to police, Buckley smelled of alcohol and had a box on the passenger’s seat holding a marijuana plant.
