CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio. Circleville officers arrested a West Jefferson man Monday evening after a call that started in a Sheetz parking lot and ended in the Aldi lot across U.S. 23, police reports say.
The account comes from approved Circleville Police Department case R26-02619. An arrest is not a conviction.
Just after 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 31, 2026, officers were sent to the Sheetz area in the 1300 block of S. Court Street. The complaint was a drunk man in the lot trying to get into other people’s vehicles. Off-duty Officer Hopkins saw the man and contacted authorities.
While officers were still on the way, dispatch said the same man had walked across U.S. 23 and into the Taco Bell drive-through. Taco Bell and Aldi sit next to each other on U.S. 23 South in Circleville.
Officer Harrington found a man matching the call description, wearing a white cutoff T-shirt, in the Aldi parking lot. He identified him as George Kenner Sargent, 36.
Officer Harrington wrote that Sargent smelled of alcohol and said he had been drinking. Sargent was told more than once to stand in front of the cruiser and to keep his hands out of his pockets. Officers did a brief pat-down for weapons.
When told again to wait by the car, Sargent walked up pointing a finger. Officers noted red, strained eyes, pinpoint pupils, and slurred speech. Sargent said he had drunk two Ice House beers. Officer Irwin arrived to help.
Sargent was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct while intoxicated, creating a risk of harm, under Ohio Revised Code 2917.11(B)(2). That statute applies when a person is voluntarily intoxicated and engages in conduct or creates a condition that presents a risk of physical harm to that person, someone else, or another person’s property. Intoxication by itself is not the offense. The report points to the attempt to get into vehicles and the walk across U.S. 23.
Taco Bell staff, through Officer Irwin, said they wanted Sargent trespassed from that property. He was taken to the Pickaway County Jail.
At the jail, deputies asked him, on a scale of one to ten, how drunk he was. Sargent said he was a ten. He also told Officer Irwin he was under the influence of a substance he named as Suboxone.
The report lists no injury and no force used. Court records, not the patrol narrative, will show how the charge is filed and how the case ends. Disorderly conduct under this section is often a minor misdemeanor. It can be a fourth-degree misdemeanor if a person keeps going after a reasonable warning to stop.
Anyone with more information can contact Circleville Police at 151 E. Franklin Street or (740) 474-8888.
Based on Circleville Police Department case R26-02619 and the official text of the Ohio Revised Code. Charges are allegations.
