Car pulled from lake
BRIAN WALKER/Press Bystanders watch rescuers pull an Audi car from Lake Coeur d'Alene at the city's Third Street docks this morning. No one was found inside the vehicle.
BRIAN WALKER/Press Divers check out the inside of an Audi that was found in Lake Coeur d'Alene at the Third Street docks this morning.
COEUR d'ALENE — A newer black Audi car was pulled from Lake Coeur d'Alene this morning at the Third Street docks.
Police said Casey Samuels, 39, Coeur d'Alene admitted to driving the car early this morning.
"He remembers driving," Coeur d'Alene Police Det. Jared Reneau said. "He's just not clear on why he went into the lake."
Samuels denied to police that he had been drinking. He was cited for reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident.
No one was inside the car after it was spotted in the water around 8:45 a.m. by a man who was looking for his cell phone, said Coeur d'Alene police Sgt. Scott TenEyck.
Police said surveillance video showed the car being driven into the lake between 1 and 2 a.m.