Taswell News

INDIANAPOLIS - Former state Rep. Dennie Oxley II, the 2008 Democratic candidate for Indiana's lieutenant governor, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge that he misrepresented himself as a state legislator last summer to avoid arrest for public intoxication.

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INDIANAPOLIS - State Rep. Dennie Oxley, D-Taswell, missed the General Assembly's Organization Day on Tuesday with an illness and is now at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper.

INDIANAPOLIS - State lawmakers are studying whether to allow Indiana students to take at least some of their driver's education classes through the Internet rather than in a classroom.

Former Democratic candidate Dennie Oxley II surrendered this morning at the City-County Building on charges he impersonated a state lawmaker to avoid arrest, WRTV reported.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Dennie Oxley Jr., a former state legislator and last year's Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, avoided arrest on alcohol-related charges early Friday by telling police he was serving in the General Assembly, according an Indianapolis Police report.

A former state representative and once Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor told Indianapolis police that he was immune from arrest during an alleged drunken incident outside a gas station downtown early Friday morning.

Ind. Law - "'The officers didn't know he wasn't in the legislature,' Mount said.

A February drunken driving charge against Indiana's 2008 Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor is on hold amid new questions of whether he misrepresented himself as a legislator this week to avoid possible arrest for public intoxication.

Police responded to a 9-1-1 call from a customer at the Citgo gas station on East Ohio Street.