Bunnell County Police Chief Jeffrey Hoffman deadpanned this description: “Cowart was intoxicated.”
Cowart drew police attention by urinating in someone’s yard, according to Daytona Beach News-Journal. He spent the day galloping through the busiest part of the city and caused a major hazard when he encountered a train, which officers had to stop. He made friends along his journey, stopping and receiving headphones so he could listen to his iPod. In the end Cowart was stopped by his father, who knocked him off the horse by tackling him.
Cowart was arrested and charged with aggravated fleeing and eluding, interfering with railroad tracks (both third-degree felonies), resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, obstructing an officer to violence and cruelty to animals. Cowart’s family says he’s troubled and that they’ll get him the help he needs. Cowart has a criminal history ranging from a 2010 DUI and a petty theft arrest from 2011. He’s not charged with DUI this time, because technically he wasn’t “driving” the horse — he was riding it.