A geocaching game gone awry shut down City Hall and Main Street for a while yesterday.
Shortly after 3 p.m., someone reported seeing a suspicious-looking package on the sidewalk at the southwest corner of First and Main streets and called Winston-Salem police.
Police evacuated City Hall, and a one-block area around the building was closed to traffic for about an hour while the bomb squad investigated the box and used a water cannon to destroy it.
Police eventually identified it as a geocache, City Manager Lee Garrity said. He said that the box contained a watch, some wires and other objects.
Geocaching is a high-tech version of a treasure-hunt game, using handheld GPS units. Geocachers post the GPS coordinates on a Web site and offer clues about where the parcels can be found. Caches are usually well hidden.
"It was a good training exercise," Garrity said.
Lexington man charged with DWI after hitting two cars
LEXINGTON -- A man was charged with driving while impaired after police said he ran into two cars Monday afternoon.
Carl Anthony Burrage, 36 of 601 Kildee Drive was driving north on Lowes Boulevard at 1:19 p.m. Monday, police said.
Burrage was in the wrong lane and his car collided head-on with a car driven by Khaled Galal Amer, 39, of Lexington, police said. Burrage then hit another car, this one driven by Nancy Lourenida Godwin, 20, of Lexington as he was leaving the scene. Amer and his passenger, Andalib Ally Hassan Ragab, were injured and taken to Lexington Memorial Hospital.
Police said that he caused about $100 in damage to Godwin's car.
Burrage was stopped by police a few minutes later and charged with driving while impaired, no operators license and reckless driving. He was given a Breathalyzer test, which showed a blood alcohol level of 0.17. The legal limit is 0.08.
Yesterday, police charged Burrage with driving while impaired and two counts of hit and run.
He was in the Davidson County Jail yesterday, with bond set at $5,000.
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