County Officer Arrested for Weekend OWI
An officer in the Fayette County Sheriff's office has been arrested on a traffic violation.
25 year old Austin Vagts of Fayette, who is a detention officer with the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, was arrested early Sunday morning for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, first offense.
The traffic stop was made in West Union by the local police department, shortly after 2:30am Sunday. Vagts was released from custody about an hour later, on no bond.
Vagts has been with the Fayette County Sheriff office less than a year.