OWI Suspect Tries a Little Charm on Officer, to Little Avail

A driver being tested for soberness adopted a playful attitude, but if she got even a smile out of the police officer doing the testing, he wasn't saying so in his report.

The woman was stopped in the early morning hours of Thursday and arrested on suspicion of operating while intoxicated after she drove erratically and ran a red light in front of a patrol officer.

At 3:36 a.m., the officer reported, he was enforcing overnight parking violations in the area of West Garfield Avenue and North 65th Street when he saw the woman stop at that corner and not move for more than a minute.

She proceeded south on 65th and then turned east on Lloyd Street, where the officer saw her drifting across the center line and then go through a flashing red at 60th Street.

The woman smelled strongly of alcohol, had slow, slurred speech and bloodshot eyes, and admitted she'd been drinking. She could hardly stay upright when she got out of her car but agreed to attempt field sobriety tests.

While she did complete the tests, she did a poor job of it, and tried to entertain the investigating officer by repeating his name – "One, Officer O______, two, Officer O______..." instead of "One, one-thousand, two, one-thousand..." etcetera. He was not amused.

After finishing, and failing, the tests, the woman told the officer she wanted to be completely honest and reached into her pocket, pulling out a bag containing a pipe and 1.9 grams of marijuana.

Because of the possibility the woman was under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana, she was asked and consented to provide a blood sample. She also consented to a breath test, which registered a .14 blood alcohol concentration.