An Ephrata, Lancaster County, man chose the wrong time to visit his childhood home in Tamaqua on March 15.

It was 2:56 a.m. when a Tamaqua police officer was on patrol, heading north on Center Street with a green light as he approached the Five Points Intersection. That's when he saw a white Lincoln sedan, traveling east on Broad Street, go through a steady red light. The officer turned right and saw the car go through another red light, this one at the Broad and Pine streets intersection. He then initiated a traffic stop.The driver of the Lincoln was identified as Shawn Gerber, 40, of 764 E. Main St. Gerber exhibited several signs of intoxication, such as slurred speech, bloodshot eyes and an odor of alcohol on his breath. He told the officer he had been at a casino, drank three beers and had decided to drive past his childhood home on East Broad Street.Gerber was given, and failed, field sobriety tests. When told he was being arrested for suspected drunken driving and would be transported to St. Luke's Hospital-Miners Campus in Coaldale, he asked the officer to drive very slowly past his former home. At the hospital Gerber became uncooperative to the point the officer requested assistance. Officers from Coaldale and Tamaqua arrived on the scene.At that point Gerber refused to have a blood test.He was then transported to a relative's house in Tamaqua, charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, failure to heed a traffic control device, harassment and disorderly conduct.