A Cannon County man sitting in the parking lot of a Body Shop was arrested for public drunk after the Body Shop Officials called the Cannon County Sheriff’s Department. According to Sheriff’s Department Reports, Cannon County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to Bill Sparkman’s Body Shop after Mr. Sparkman called in to say there was a male later identified as Larry Dale Parsley sitting in a wrecked white Ford Explorer passed out behind the wheel. Deputies spoke with Parsley who was still in the driver’s seat. Deputies noticed he had slow slurred speech, red watery eyes and was unsteady on his feet. Parsley admitted to taking sleeping medicine approximately two hours prior and had wrecked the truck on Short Mountain Road in Dekalb County and called Smith’s Towing to tow his truck and him to Sparkman’s Body Shop. Parsley was arrested and charged with Drunkeness and will answer to the charge in General Sessions Court on January 5th.
