Sleeping motorist backs up rush hour traffic

WASILLA — If you noticed morning rush hour traffic Wednesday was more frustrating than usual, please understand that the man behind the delay had no idea.

How can that be? He was sleeping.

Here’s how a Wasilla Police Department press release describes the scene:

“On April 9, 2014, at (7:36 a.m.) Wasilla police found Silas Soto asleep in the driver’s seat of his vehicle in the middle of Knik-Goose Bay Road and Railroad Avenue intersection, holding up rush-hour traffic.”

The press release goes on to say that once officers woke Soto, he claimed to be his brother. Officers sorted that out, though, and jailed Soto, 32, at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on $1,500 bail, charging him with driving on a revoked license and providing false information to a police officer.

As of Friday evening he was still listed as an inmate there in jail records.