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Sunday, February 8, 2015
Police in Burlington, North Carolina report that an impaired teen drove their car into a post office. The crash occurred at approximately 11:20 PM at the post office on Maple Avenue. The investigators' report states that George Desimone, 17, veered off of Broad street and then entered a parking lot before slamming into the front of the post office. Nobody was inside the building at the time. According to police, Desimone was using an intoxicating inhalant while operating the vehicle. He was released into the custody of his parents, who promised to bring him to court.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
A man who crashed his car into a house Thursday evening is accused of driving the wrong way down another street minutes earlier — all while being “extremely impaired.” Burlington police were searching for the 1994 Honda Accord driven by Mario O’Keith Strayhorn, 22, of Roslyn Drive, after it struck another car while going the wrong way down Fisher Street.