Following a bench trial, Scott Lacy was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol to the extent it was less safe to drive, OCGA § 40-6-391 a 1. He appeals, contending the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress. Finding no error, we affirm. The undisputed evidence showed the following relevant facts. Late in the evening of July 13, 2005, Scott Lacy called 911 and gave the phone to his wife, Tanya, who told the 911 operator that her husband, an “ex-cop,” was drunk and was being disruptive. The couple argued with each other for several minutes during the call, then Lacy got into his truck and locked the doors. Mrs. Lacy unsuccessfully tried to stop him from leaving, then told the 911 operator that her husband was leaving the house in a “red 2004 Dodge pickup,” was wearing a gray t-shirt, shorts, and an “Old Navy” baseball cap, and was driving toward the subdivision’s exit. Based on the recording of the call, it appears that the 911 operator typed this information into the computer as Mrs. Lacy reported it and that the operator communicated with the police.
After receiving the domestic dispute call, a Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department deputy drove toward the rural subdivision where the couple lived with the intention of responding to the call. While en route, however, the deputy heard the dispatcher issue an alert advising that the caller’s husband had left the couple’s house in a red pickup truck and “had possibly been drinking.” Within three minutes of the time Mrs. Lacy reported that her husband was leaving the house, the deputy turned into the couple’s subdivision with his blue-lights flashing and saw a red truck coming toward him from the opposite direction. The driver of the truck, subsequently identified as Lacy, pulled to the side of the road and stopped after passing the deputy, and the deputy turned around and pulled in behind the truck. According to the deputy, before turning around, he spoke to his sergeant, who knew Lacy, and the sergeant told him to turn around and stop the truck.1 When asked if he would have stopped any red truck in the area, the deputy responded that he would have “if it matched the description” from the dispatcher.
