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Man arrested for driving pick-up truck into house
A Mountain Home man has been arrested after he allegedly drove a 2008 Dodge pickup into a house at 570 Teton Drive at about 2:10 a.m. Saturday morning.
Christopher Elliot, 23, was charged with felony joyriding, leaving the scene of an accident and suspicion of DUI after he was arrested on Daniels Road later that night about a half a mile away from the scene of the incident.
Authorities said Elliot denied driving his roommate's truck into the garage of the home of Shawn and Joanne Fisher, but he matches the description of the man they saw fleeing the scene and his roommate, who owns the vehicle, has an "airtight alibi"
Shawn Fisher said he and his wife were in a back room of their home when they heard a loud noise and ran out to the front of the house where they "found a truck parked in the wrong direction in my garage."
The truck had entered the side of the garage, which extends from the front of the house. It not only passed through one wall, but "pushed the other wall (on the far side of the garage) out about one and a half feet, and the garage door had been pushed out as well," Fisher said, possibly due to an air pressure effect. The gas meter on the outside of the far wall was damaged, leaving the family without any hot water. "Right now, we're boiling water to do the dishes," he said. "The fortunate thing is, nobody was hurt."
Fisher said he had been in the process of cleaning the garage to make room for his car and a number of boxes had been stacked in the middle to the floor, where they were struck by the pickup. "It's a mess in there right now," he said, as he waited Monday morning for an insurance adjuster to arrive and make an estimate on the damage.
He said when he and his wife arrived at the front of their house they saw the vehicle try and back out, but when that failed the driver fled the scene.
Police are uncertain at present of the means by which the truck left the road and plowed into the house. The investigation is continuing.