[Scan-DC] Woman drove drunk looking for pills, listening to police scanner phone app

[Alan Henney]

Bay City Times (Michigan)

November 14, 2015 Saturday  
1 EDITION

Police: Woman drove drunk looking for pills, listening to police scanner 

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URL: http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2015/11/bay_city_mom_drove_drunk_looki.html 

By Cole Waterman

cwaterma at mlive.com

A 25-year-old Bay City woman is in hot water for allegedly drunkenly driving around, seeking drugs while listening to a police scanner on her phone.

According to court records, police at about 11:30 p.m. Nov. 5 responded to the area of 11th Street and North Monroe Avenue on a suspicious vehicle complaint. The person who called Bay County Central Dispatch reported a woman was driving in a car, stopping to ask passers-by if she could buy pills, court records show.

Police located the suspected vehicle -- a blue Toyota Camry -- and pulled it over on Saginaw Street near Columbus Avenue. The driver was Olivia Rose, who provided police with an identification card but told them her license was suspended, court records show.

Also in the car was a baby boy, about 1 year old, court records show.

Police noticed an open pint of Burnett's vodka on the floorboard of the Toyota as well, court records show. Rose also had a cassette adapter connected to her cellphone, which had a police scanner app playing through the car's stereo, court records show.

Rose told the officers she had just gotten off work and was driving to her sister's house. She denied the allegation that she was out looking for pills, court records show.

Police wrote in their reports, contained in court records, that Rose did not emit an odor of alcohol, but her eyes were watery, bloodshot and glassy, and her speech was slurred. She submitted to a preliminary Breathalyzer test, which indicated her blood alcohol level was at 0.17 percent, court records show.

In Michigan, a person is legally intoxicated when his or her blood alcohol level is at 0.08 percent, court records show.

Police arrested Rose.

Rose was arraigned in Bay County District Court on single counts of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, third offense -- a five-year felony -- using a police scanner in the commission of a felony, driving while license suspended, denied or revoked, and having an open intoxicant in a motor vehicle. Using a police scanner in the commission of a felony is punishable by up to two years' imprisonment.

Michigan law states "A person shall not carry or have in his or her possession in the commission or attempted commission of a crime a radio receiving set that will receive signals sent on a frequency assigned by the federal communications commission of the United States for police or other law enforcement, fire fighting, emergency medical, federal, state, or local corrections, or homeland security purposes."

Rose's bond was set at $10,000 cash-surety. She is to appear for a preliminary examination before District Judge Mark E. Janer at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 25.

Olivia M. Rose

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