Jeb Magruder-too much drinky

Jeb Magruder, a former aide to Nixon involved with the WATERGATE scandal, has been charged in an accident he was involved in 7/23 on Rt 315. A known regular at Hyde Park on the cap
Jeb Magruder, 72, faces two counts of failure to maintain an assured clear distance and one count of failure to stop after an accident or collision. The charges are misdemeanors.
Magruder, of 34 W. Poplar Ave. in Victorian Village, was hospitalized after the two crashes, which occurred four minutes apart Monday morning on Rt. 315 near the Ohio State University campus.
He had been listed in serious condition at Riverside Methodist Hospital on Monday night. According to police reports, Magruder first rear-ended a motorcycle driven by Robert J. Gewirtz, 40, of Bexley at 10:45 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Rt. 315 at W. Lane Avenue.
Gewirtz was thrown from his motorcycle but was not seriously injured.
Witnesses to that crash told police it appeared that Magruder had pulled his Audi A4 onto the shoulder before speeding away at an estimated 80 mph.
The second crash occurred near the North Broadway exit, when police said Magruder hit the rear of a box truck before slamming into a concrete divider. Magruder was pinned in his wrecked car.
The truck driver, Raphael Peterson, 25, of Springboro, south of Dayton, wasn't seriously hurt.
Police said Magruder told them at the hospital that he could not recall much about the crashes. The reports said alcohol was not suspected.
Magruder has been in trouble in Ohio before Monday.
Grandview police arrested him on a charge of persistent disorderly conduct while intoxicated after officers said he passed out on a sidewalk in 2003. Though he called the charge "ludicrous" at the time, he later entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.
A state trooper charged Magruder with drunken driving in Fayette County in 2005. The charge was later reduced to reckless operation, Municipal Court records from Washington Court House show. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge and paid a fine.
A retired Presbyterian minister, Magruder spent seven months in prison for his role in the break-in at the Watergate Hotel and cover-up while he was working for Nixon, who resigned over the political scandal in 1974.