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DUI driver gets into crash, found hiding in ditch
Giovanni Ayala
Giovanni Ayala

A 26-year-old Modesto man faces a number of charges after he allegedly crashed his car in an early Sunday morning solo rollover.

Officers were summoned to the crash site near Service Road and El Camino Avenue at 12:09 a.m. Officer Kevin Roseen located the car but no no one in or near it. Witnesses who saw the driver run off directed officers toward a ditch behind St. Jude’s Parish at 3824 Mitchell Road. There they found Giovanni Ayala, 26, of Modesto, who appeared to be intoxicated. He was arrested and booked into the Stanislaus County Public Safety Center on charges of DUI, fleeing the scene of an accident and a violating the terms of his probation.