A motorist with a history of drunken driving left a central Minnesota bar last Friday, rammed a stopped Postal Service truck from behind and fled the scene as the mail carrier lay unconscious in her vehicle, according to felony charges.
Jonathon W. Boundy, 31, was charged Monday in Stearns County District Court with three counts of criminal vehicular operation and was booked into jail in connection with the crash on a county road northeast of Albany, Minn.
Boundy, of Albany, has been released from custody on his own recognizance. Court records list no defense attorney, and a phone listed for him was not answered Tuesday afternoon.
The mail carrier, 60-year-old Alice Theisen of Albany, was knocked unconscious from the force of the impact and was treated for her injuries at Melrose Hospital.
At the time of the crash, Boundy was serving probation from a drunken driving conviction in 2016. Minnesota court records also show a 2011 drunken driving conviction for Boundy.
According to the criminal complaint in the latest case:
Theisen was stopped at a mailbox on County Road 154 about 5:20 p.m. when Boundy's pickup hit the mail carrier's SUV from behind. A resident near the mailbox said the speeding pickup hit the SUV even though it had a flashing orange emergency light on the roof and other lights illuminated as well.
The resident said he yelled at Boundy that he had just hit another vehicle, but the pickup driver kept going.
