PORT TOWNSEND — A 27-year-old Port Townsend man was arrested for investigation of driving while intoxicated and hit-and-run after a pickup he was driving overturned in the 3100 block of North Sheridan Street on Thursday night.
Robert Aldana and an unidentified passenger were treated for minor cuts after they were found at a house nearby, said Sgt. Ed Green with the Port Townsend Police Department.
Aldana was no longer in custody in the Jefferson County jail late Friday.
The GMC pickup he was driving left the roadway, hit a boulder in a yard and overturned, coming to rest just feet from the front porch of a home, said Bill Beezley, East Jefferson Fire-Rescue spokesman.
Firefighters arrived at the wrecked truck at 9:45 p.m., Beezley said.
They found the pickup resting on its passenger side.
“The windshield was shattered, and a large toolbox that had been in the bed of the truck had broken free, strewing tools across the yard,” Beezley said in a statement.
“But there were no occupants in sight.”
Witnesses told firefighters that the two people in the truck had left it and run south.
Law enforcement and firefighters found them about a half-hour later at a home in the 1400 block of McPherson Street, Beezley said.
The home belonged to the registered owner of the pickup, Green said.
There, they received medical care for cuts on their arms and hands. They were not taken to a hospital.
