State police say a Centre County man was driving under the influence of marijuana when he hit and seriously injured another man with his car last fall in Milesburg.
Kolton R. Cain, 19, of Julian, was charged on Tuesday with two felonies, including aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI, and two misdemeanors for the Oct. 31 incident.
A man told police that he got out of his own car at about 7:25 p.m. near the intersection of High and Brick streets when he saw Cain driving a BMW sedan toward him and told Cain “to stop driving around speeding like he had been all evening,” state police at Rockview wrote in an affidavit of probable cause.
The man said Cain responded by hitting him with his car, causing him to roll over the hood. Cain then drove away while the man lay in the road, a state trooper wrote.
One witness told police he saw Cain driving at a high rate of speed around the block, then saw the other man get out of his vehicle and tell Cain to stop “driving crazy.” The witness said Cain then struck the man with his car and drove away.
A second witness told police it appeared the man jumped when Cain drove toward him then rolled over the top of the car, according to the affidavit.
Cain told a trooper that the man was blocking the way and yelling at him, according to the affidavit, and that he attempted to drive around him but that the man jumped onto his car. He said he took his friends home before returning to the scene, police wrote.
A passenger in Cain’s car also said it looked like the man jumped onto the car “but either way Cain hit him,” according to the affidavit.
A trooper observed that Cain had bloodshot eyes and slow pupil reaction, according to the affidavit. Cain allegedly said he had smoked marijuana three hours earlier, and a drug recognition expert determined he was under the influence.
Cain was taken to Mount Nittany Medical Center for a blood draw and lab results later showed he had THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana, in his system at the time of the incident, according to the affidavit.
In addition to aggravated assault, Cain was charged with a felony count of accidents involving personal injury, two misdemeanor counts of DUI and summary offenses of careless driving, reckless driving and failure to stop and render aid.
He was arraigned on Tuesday morning by District Judge Kelley Gillette-Walker, who set unsecured bail at $100,000.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 5.
