HUGO, Okla. — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said troopers have rescued a man who was swept off a Choctaw County bridge by floodwaters and then jailed on a public intoxication complaint.
The patrol said the unnamed man was swept away about 8:30 p.m. Thursday while walking across a closed portion of U.S. 70 at the Muddy Boggy Bridge. Troopers Kevin Antwine and Nathan Mullins put a boat in the water and found the man clinging to a tree about 200 yards south of U.S. 70.
The patrol says that once he was transported back to shore, the man was arrested by Choctaw County sheriff's deputies on a complaint of public intoxication.