Zachariah Johnson arrested for felony OWI

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM

By Kathy Bottorff

A Hamlet man was arrested on September 7^th after a county police officer observed traffic violations.

At about 4 a.m. Sunday morning, Deputy Geiger with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department stopped a red Mitsubishi passenger car on U.S. 31 at 9A Road.

The driver, 34-year-old Zachariah Johnson of Hamlet, was found to have been drinking and submitted to field sobriety tests. He then agreed to a certified blood test and was found to be over two times the legal limit.

Johnson was transported to the Marshall County Jail, where he was charged and booked for operating a vehicle while intoxicated as a felony due to a previous conviction and held on a $1500 cash bond.

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