A state police trooper accused of being drunk while on patrol last month waived the case to court during his preliminary hearing Friday. Jared Clyde Johnson, 46, of South Franklin, is facing one misdemeanor charge of drunken driving and two summary offenses after state police said he damaged his police vehicle after hitting a curb on patrol and was later found by a supervisor to be intoxicated. Johnson waived his case to court and will appear in DUI court on August 22.Johnson was on patrol when he was dispatched to a report of an injured deer on Interstate 70 near the Claysville exit. According to court documents he never went to the scene, and a supervisor later tracked Johnson down and found him sitting in his police vehicle in a gravel parking lot near the Taylorstown exit. The supervisor found a rum bottle in the passenger seat. A state police spokesman said Johnson has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of his case. He could face termination because the alleged offense happened with a state-issued vehicle.