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Power restored to 3,500 customers in Polk County

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Published: October 25, 2009

Updated: 10/25/2009 09:33 pm

Luke Huber

About 3,500 customers in Polk County now have power, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said Sunday night.

Power was restored to the residents, including everyone in Polk City, at around 8:45 p.m., the sheriff's office said.

Lakeland Electric Co. customers had no power since this morning after a drunken driver hit a utility pole, authorities said.

The wreck that sparked the outage happened about 4 a.m. when a 2005 blue four-door Honda, driven by Luke J. Huber, 28, of Polk City, crashed into a pole near the intersection of County Road 33 and Old Polk City Road, a release from the sheriff's office states.

Huber, who suffered minor injuries in the crash, was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence, a sheriff's office spokeswoman said.

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