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This might take a while to unpack: a drunk female driver called the police to report a drunk driver, and then reported herself but chances are she didn’t even know it.
If she did and she thought this was some hilarious giant joke, well, the joke’s on her. She ended up in the hospital to be sedated and in handcuffs, charged with DUI and having an open container in a vehicle. She wasn’t charged for making a false 911 call because, in the end, she did speak the truth: there was a drunk driver on the road.
The incident happened in Woods Cross, Utah, in mid-August, but the details of the arrest have become public only now, when the woman’s case was closed and she received her sentence, Deseret News reports.
It all started normally: a woman called to report a drunken driver. Asked to give dispatch a description of the driver, the woman described herself and gave her license plate. By this time, the officer already knew the woman was intoxicated.
“The dispatcher noticed that the caller also sounded intoxicated herself. The caller was laughing and burping over the phone, and when asked for the license plate of the vehicle that the caller was trying to report, the caller gave her own license plate,” a police incident report says.
A unit was dispatched but the woman ran when she saw the officers approach. She was caught and restrained but, because she wouldn’t stop fighting, she was taken to a local hospital where she was sedated. The vehicle search returned an almost empty bottle of whiskey, the media outlet says. Someone had been partying real hard.
“The woman was charged with DUI, a class B misdemeanor, and having an open container in a vehicle, a class C misdemeanor,” the publication says. She struck a plea deal where she pleaded guilty to DUI and the open container charge was dropped. She was given a 6-month suspended license and was placed on probation.
The incident happened in Woods Cross, Utah, in mid-August, but the details of the arrest have become public only now, when the woman’s case was closed and she received her sentence, Deseret News reports.
It all started normally: a woman called to report a drunken driver. Asked to give dispatch a description of the driver, the woman described herself and gave her license plate. By this time, the officer already knew the woman was intoxicated.
“The dispatcher noticed that the caller also sounded intoxicated herself. The caller was laughing and burping over the phone, and when asked for the license plate of the vehicle that the caller was trying to report, the caller gave her own license plate,” a police incident report says.
A unit was dispatched but the woman ran when she saw the officers approach. She was caught and restrained but, because she wouldn’t stop fighting, she was taken to a local hospital where she was sedated. The vehicle search returned an almost empty bottle of whiskey, the media outlet says. Someone had been partying real hard.
“The woman was charged with DUI, a class B misdemeanor, and having an open container in a vehicle, a class C misdemeanor,” the publication says. She struck a plea deal where she pleaded guilty to DUI and the open container charge was dropped. She was given a 6-month suspended license and was placed on probation.
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