From Sandy Louey:
Redding police arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with a hit-and-run in which a pickup truck slammed into a garage Monday.
At 3:45 a.m., police were called out a home in the 2500 block of Castlewood Drive. Officers found major damage to the rollup door of a three-car garage that was apparently caused by a motor vehicle hitting it, according to a news release from the Redding Police Department.
A parked SUV inside the garage was severely damaged. It was forced against a gas water heater and wall separating the garage from the living space of the home, police said.
The gas and water lines of the water heater were ruptured, resulting in flooding inside the home. No one was injured and the Redding Fire Department secured the broken gas and water lines, authorities said.
A GMC pickup truck suspected of being involved was found a short distance away on Shasta View Drive. The truck was abandoned and disabled with major front end damage, police said.
About 23 minutes after the collision, the driver of the pickup arrived at a friend's home several blocks away on Freeman Way. The driver, Dustin Galen Benjamin Hemenway of Redding, asked his friend to call police to report the incident.
Hemenway, who had minor injuries from the collision, had symptoms of intoxication. He was eventually arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, police said.
He was booked at the Shasta County jail.
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