Putnam County's last former sheriff was arrested for drunken driving, telling Volusia County deputies in a video recording during a sobriety test that he "wrote the book" on DUI rules.

Jeff Hardy, 51, was arrested July 24 and charged with DUI alcohol or drugs, his arrest report states.

After seven hours in lockup, Hardy was released from the Volusia County Branch Jail on $1,000 bail. He could not be reached Tuesday.

According to reports, deputies were initially dispatched to a disturbance at 11:47 p.m. July 24 at a home on Silk Oaks Drive near Ormond Beach. At the home, deputies talked with Todd Hardy who reported his brother Jeff Hardy and Jeff Hardy's girlfriend were causing trouble at his place and he had asked them to leave.

Deputies then told the former sheriff, whose term ended last year when he did not run for re-election, that they didn’t want him driving, reports and a body-worn camera recording revealed.

But later, deputies were called again about an intoxicated man who had left in his pickup to look for his girlfriend, investigators said.

Deputies found Jeff Hardy driving his pickup in the 30 block of Sunset Boulevard near Ormond Beach and they stopped him.

Hardy was so intoxicated that he thought he was in front of his home when he wasn’t even on his street, reports and video recordings show.

"I just pulled out of my driveway. I know the rules," Hardy said to deputies.

Hardy refused to do an alcohol breath test and failed all sobriety tests, reports state.

During the walk-and-turn test, the former Putnam County sheriff told Volusia deputies that he "wrote the book on DUI," documents show.

During that test, Hardy is heard on the recording saying that his right leg is one inch shorter than his left leg and that he has dementia because he is an airplane pilot.