Robert Evans

A repeat drunken driver was arrested Tuesday night for the same crime — this time on a lawn mower.

State police allege Robert Lee Evans, 55, of Washington Township drove the lawn tractor to a nearby home on Water Lane where he threatened to hit a man with a baseball bat.

Trooper Dustin Scheerbaum said when he got there about 7:40 p.m. he noticed an open can of beer in the mower's cup holder. Evans admitted to driving the mower to the home.

Evans also told police that he was at the home “to pick up a birdbath to take back to his house,” according to Scheerbaum's affidavit.

The suspect subsequently showed impairment during field sobriety tests and police took him to Butler Memorial Hospital for a blood draw. Toxicology results are pending.

Police noted Evans is on probation. He was placed in the Butler County Prison on a detainer. Court records showed he was sentenced in Jefferson County to five years on the Intermediate Punishment Program stemming from his guilty plea following a 2017 DUI arrest.

The program allows a person facing a mandatory period of incarceration to serve some period of that “confinement” at home with a home monitoring device rather than at a county jail.

According to records, Evans has four DUI convictions.

Stoughton set Evans bond following Tuesday's arrest at $10,000 with several conditions, including that he can be released only to county supervision.

Additionally, Evans must wear a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring bracelet, abstain from drugs and alcohol, and undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation.

Stoughton also ordered him, if released, to have no contact with the victim in Tuesday's incident.

Evans' preliminary hearing is set April 21 at Stoughton's office in Chicora. It was not known if he has an attorney.