BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office arrested a man who says a turtle is to blame for his involvement in a car crash.

Leo Sanfie, 40, of Baton Rouge, has been charged with one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, one count of hit and run, and one count of reckless operation of a vehicle.

Around 1 a.m. on July 20, deputies responded to the 10000 block of Bluebonnet Boulevard, where a car had crashed and flipped several times before landing on a fence. The car was found unoccupied, and deputies began looking for the driver.

While searching, deputies near the scene found Sanfie walking north on Bluebonnet Boulevard and asked him if he had been in an accident. Sanfie denied being involved and said he was walking to his girlfriend's house.

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