Federal Way police arrested a 23-year-old Auburn man for driving under the influence after he caused a five-vehicle crash on Oct. 10, injuring several people.

The suspect was driving a black Chevrolet Cobalt with three other occupants when he ran a red light at the intersection of 16th Avenue South (Enchanted Parkway South) and State Route 18 at approximately 9:30 p.m.

His vehicle hit a Subaru Forester, which caused subsequent car accidents. Several people were taken to the hospital for their injuries, including one with fractured ribs. Three of the five vehicles were impounded because of damages.

After obtaining a search warrant, the suspect was taken to St. Francis Hospital to have his blood drawn for a toxicology report. Once he was medically cleared, an officer arrested the suspect for vehicular assault.

“I noted that [the suspect] spoke with a thick slur and it was as if his words had no definite end or beginning,” the officer wrote in the police report. “I observed an odor of intoxicants on his breath and noted that the odor was stronger as he exhaled.”

Swaying back and forth, the suspect made his way to the patrol vehicle to be escorted to SCORE jail. But as he was searched, the suspect asked what happened. When told he was in a car accident, he questioned, “I was?” and replied “Hmm” when he learned several people were hurt.

He repeated the questions once in the police car and only seemed concerned when he learned that his car was totaled.

“Telling [the suspect] that the vehicle was totaled appeared to have more of an impact on him than when I had told him he was under arrest or that he caused an injury producing the collision,” the report continues.

The man then recounted his night to the officer. The last thing he remembered was having a Miller Lite beer at the bowling alley. He did not remember leaving the alley and when asked why, he replied, that he “drank too much.”