Junction City man charged in OSU incident

By KYLE ODEGARD
Gazette-Times reporter

A man who was allegedly driving drunk — and transporting an untapped keg — crashed a stolen golf cart into a public safety vehicle at Oregon State University on Saturday night.

The crash happened at 7:30 p.m., shortly after the football team’s loss to Stanford.

Ted Wayne Cersovski, 28, of 28388 Cox Butte Road in Junction City, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and two counts of reckless endangering.

He was cited and released at the Benton County Jail.

The golf cart belonged to the OSU golf team, and Cersovski said he paid $20 to “a college guy” for it.

He could be charged with more violations for the keg, which had no paperwork, according to Oregon State Police and OSU Department of Public Safety logs.

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission will contact Cersovski next week, the logs state.

OSU’s Department of Public Safety was dispatched to a report of a golf cart on lawns near 26th Street and Campus Way. An officer followed the vehicle, and turned on its lights to get it to pull over.

After ordering the driver to stop four times and getting no compliance, the public safety officer positioned his vehicle in front of the golf cart and stopped about 20 feet in front of it.

The golf cart hit the side of the car at about 5 mph, and the driver was taken into custody after a brief struggle.

He remained uncooperative with law enforcement, and refused field sobriety tests and later a breath test at jail, according to officers.

The driver had a 26-year-old and 20-year-old male in the golf cart with him. They said he pulled up to them and invited them to go for a ride. The 20-year-old was cited for minor in possession of alcohol.

Cersovski has been excluded from the OSU campus and all OSU properties. He could not be contacted Monday night.