(Elliott, Iowa) – Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County say the driver of a Subaru Outback was arrested following a crash that occurred a little after 11-p.m. Friday, east of Elliott. Authorities say Roger Dean Cook, of Red Oak, was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia, with additional charges pending the results of a drug screen. Cook was traveling west on 100th Street when his vehicle crossed into the opposite lane of traffic and went into the ditch, where it struck a power line pole, breaking it in half.

The SUV continued in the ditch and hit a barbed-wire fence before coming to rest. The vehicle sustained an estimated $15,000 damage, and was declared a total loss. Cook denied rescue and suffered no injures during the incident.  He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.