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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.

The Crawford County sheriff says that despite previous reports former state Rep.

Anderson -- Charles R. Anderson, 85, Anderson, Ind., passed away Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009, at Community Hospital, Anderson, Ind.