The incident was one of several officers responded to on Wednesday.
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said police were called to a car crash in Andersons Bay Rd, at 11pm on Wednesday.
A 30-year-old man had crashed his vehicle into a lamp-post, uprooting it.
He told police he had been up since 3am and believed he "fell asleep", which he said was the reason for the crash.
The man recorded a breath alcohol level of 669mcg, Snr Sgt Bond said.
His licence was suspended for 28 days and he was summonsed to appear in court.
An hour earlier, police were called to Macandrew Rd, in South Dunedin, where a 15-year-old boy had allegedly stolen a Toyota Prius and driven off at speed before crashing into three parked cars.
The teen fled, but members of the public who saw the crash had "chased him and held him until police attended", Snr Sgt Bond said.
The teen was arrested and charged with stealing the motor vehicle.
He is due to appear in the Youth Court on Monday.
Earlier in the evening, at 6.55pm, officers arrested two 14-year-old girls who had pushed past staff at Woolworths Dunedin Central to steal bottles of alcoholic cider, Snr Sgt Bond alleged.
Police located the girls, one of whom was wanted for other shoplifting matters.
The other fled but was later arrested in St Andrew St, after attempting to resist arrest.
Further inquiries revealed the pair had been to the New World Centre City supermarket 20 minutes earlier, where they had also stolen cider.
Snr Sgt Bond said a manager at New World had confronted the youths and had managed to collect the bottles of cider.
One of the girls was arrested and charged with shoplifting and escaping custody, while the other was charged with three shoplifting offences, resisting arrest, two trespassing offences, aggravated assault and obtaining by deception.
