Driver faces DUI charge after hitting wall at Las Vegas residence

Las Vegas police were investigating after a driver crashed into a wall. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye

A suspected drunk driver was arrested at the scene after he crashed into a wall directly in front of a home on the 2900 block of Palora Avenue, near McLeod Drive and Desert Inn Road on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye

A driver plowed through wall on 2997 Palora Avenue in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Las Vegas police are investigating after a suspected drunk driver crashed into a wall directly in front of a home on the 2900 block of Palora Avenue, near McLeod Drive and Desert Inn Road on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye

Las Vegas police officers conduct a field sobriety test after a suspected drunk driver crashed into a wall directly in front of a home on the 2900 block of Palora Avenue, near McLeod Drive and Desert Inn Road on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye

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By Katelyn Newberg / Las Vegas Review-Journal

February 27, 2020 - 8:18 am

Updated February 27, 2020 - 10:26 am

A man suspected of drunken driving was arrested after crashing into a wall Thursday morning in an east valley neighborhood.

Metropolitan Police Department officers were called to the crash just after 7:10 a.m. on the 2900 block of Palora Avenue, near McLeod Drive and Desert Inn Road, after a dark-colored pickup truck plowed into a wall directly in front of a home.

Police at the scene administered field-sobriety tests to the male driver. Police spokesman Larry Hadfield said the driver was arrested on suspicion of DUI and taken to the Clark County Detention Center.

No one was injured in the crash. Further information was not immediately available.

Contact Katelyn Newberg at knewberg@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0240. Follow @k_newberg on Twitter. Review-Journal staff writer Glenn Puit contributed to this report.

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