HABERSHAM COUNTY, Ga. - A 66-year-old Demorest man was arrested Friday night after deputies say he took a 30-ton excavator for an intoxicated joyride from a county construction site and drove it down Old Athens Highway.

What we know:

Danny Ross Robinson is charged with driving under the influence and theft by taking a motor vehicle, according to the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office.

Callers to Habersham County E-911 reported the slow-moving Komatsu PC 290 LC excavator traveling on the highway shortly after 7:45 p.m. The machine had been parked after hours on Happy Tails Way, the gravel road leading to the new Habersham County Animal Shelter next to South Habersham Middle School.

Deputies found the excavator stopped in a private driveway about a half-mile from the job site. The boom

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