Moonshiners star 'Tickle' arrested for public intoxication after 'carried away' from Virginia convenience store
Moonshiners TV star Steven Ray Tickle has been arrested for public intoxication while allegedly needing to be carried away to a city jail.
The 35-year-old known by just his surname of Tickle was arrested last week after a citizen complained of a man seen sitting in a parking lot drinking from an open container.
Police reporting to Charley's Stop and Shop in Danville, Virginia on Thursday afternoon say they found Tickle drinking alone in a parked car while also smelling of alcohol.
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Carried away: Steven Ray Tickle, seen in a mug shot left and on the TV show Moonshiners right, was arrested for public intoxication on Thursday March, 7 in Danville, Virginia
'The officer approached him and detected a strong odor of alcohol as well as normal indications of being intoxicated,' a Danville police officer told the Raleigh Telegram.
The department described him of needing to be 'carried' to the Danville City Jail after unable to find a ride home.
He was released later that day after a misdemeanor charge of being drunk in public.
It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney.
Little help: Tickle, seen posing left in an ad for the Discovery Channel program, was described as needing to be 'carried' to the Danville City Jail after unable to find a ride home
A spokesman for Discovery Channel, which airs the show, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
The program Moonshiners follows people making the illegal brew throughout the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina.
The show's website describes Tickle as 'a hard working still hand who loves moonshine.'
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