CULPEPER, Va. – They weren’t charged with drunken driving, but police said two people now charged with public drunkenness did try to evade capture on horseback.

They were caught when one was knocked off his horse after riding into a utility wire and the other fell off her horse, police said.

On Saturday night, witnesses asked a man to stop urinating on the side of a convenience store, said Culpeper police Sgt. Scott Jenkins.

The man cursed those who complained, and after exiting the store, charged the group on his horse, witnesses said.

When Officer Jeff Dodson arrived at the scene, witnesses told him the man and a woman had left on horseback. Dodson caught up to them on a nearby street, but the riders fled through a backyard, he said. That was when they both fell off their horses.

Rapper Tony Yayo rejects plea deal for 9 months jail in teen assault case

NEW YORK – Tony Yayo, a rapper with hip-hop group G-Unit, rejected an offer Tuesday of nine months in jail in exchange for pleading guilty to slapping and punching a 14-year-old boy.

Yayo, 29, whose real name is Marvin Bernard, was charged in March with assault, harassment and endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly hitting the boy, James Rosemond. The alleged victim is the son of Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond, recording executive and manager of The Game.

Yayo has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is free on $5,000 bail.

From Associated Press reports