Keep Bailing

At 2:05 on Sunday morning, a man who was allegedly drunk, drove his late model Mercedes through the front gate of an Irvine jail and then fought with a Sheriff’s Department sergeant who was on duty there, according to the Orange County Register.

Matthew Van McDaniel plowed into the James A. Musick Jail and got out of his car, which he left in gear, still running.  The car then hit a tree on the jail campus.

McDaniel, who makes his living as a dancer, managed to successfully pirouette away from the sergeant he attacked, but other deputies soon arrested him on the spot.

“It’s the first time somebody tried to break into the jail,” Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino said.

Now McDaniel is no longer able to dance around the law.  He is being held on drunk driving, assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and unspecified weapons charges. The jail and the gate were not damaged, but the sergeant he attacked no doubt has a damaged ego.