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LAKEPORT – Authorities have arrested a Lakeport man for a number of charges after he crashed his car Thursday evening.
California Highway Patrol Officer Josh Dye reported Friday that Antoine James Ellis, 39, crashed his 1987 Camaro at 6:54 p.m. Thursday on Soda Bay Road west of Stone Drive.
Dye said Ellis was intoxicated and driving eastbound on Soda Bay Road at a high rate of speed when the crash occurred.
Due to Ellis' high level of intoxication, he lost control of the car, which ran off the road and into an orchard, where it collided with a tree, Dye reported.
The impact of the collision, Dye added, split the Camaro in half.
Ellis was flown to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital for treatment of his injuries, which were later found to be minor, said Dye.
CHP Officers Coddington and Wind to Santa Rosa, where they arrested Ellis on a felony parole violation and two misdemeanor charges of DUI and driving on a license that was suspended or revoked for reckless driving.
Ellis was booked into the Lake County Jail, where he remains on a no-bail hold for the parole violation.
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Winemaker Gerald Ployez, who lives at the winery with wife, Shirley, said the power went off in his home early Friday and alarms were triggered.
When he went to turn off the alarms, he said he saw the fire out the window, and Shirley quickly called 911.
Capt. Redhawk Pallesen of Cal Fire said that the fire was reported at 1:07 a.m.
Cal fire sent three engines, one dozer, two hand crews of 17 firefighters each and one battalion chief, said Pallesen.
Also responding was South Lake County Fire Protection District, he added.
Gerald Ployez said at one point that the fire was only 50 feet from the winery building.
“That was pretty close,” he said.
However, he and his wife weren't forced to evacuate as firefighters got control of the fire.
Pallesen said that all told, the fire burned about three acres of land,
Firefighters were still at the winery cleaning up the fire site until about 4 a.m., Ployez said.
The cause of the fire, said Palleson, appeared to be a bird that flew into a power line.
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