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Driver too busy talking on cell phone to obey police orders
A Dayton police officer had to forcibly remove a reckless driver from her vehicle after she said she was too busy “talking to her man” on the phone to step out of her vehicle.
According to a police report, an officer was driving northbound on Smithville Road at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when he saw a driver turn left onto Smithville from the right hand lane of Tuttle Ave., running a red light in the process.
The same driver, now driving southbound towards the officer, crossed into the oncoming lane, almost striking the cruiser.
The officer made a U-turn and followed the vehicle as it turned into the Kroger parking lot, then back onto Tuttle Ave. and pulled up the same traffic light as before, this time stopping behind another car waiting at the red light.
When the officer approached the vehicle, the driver tried to pull up even closer to the car in front of her to get away, the report states.
The officer asked the driver to step out of the vehicle, and that’s when he was told that she was on the phone and it was more important than talking to the police.
After asking three times and warning the driver that she would be placed under arrest for disorderly conduct if she did not step out of the car, the officer finally opened the drivers side door and forced the woman out of the car.
She continued to resist, pulling away from the officer several times, according to the police report, but was eventually handcuffed and placed in the back of the cruiser.
She was transported to the Montgomery County Jail while another officer arrived to transport her pet chihuahua, who was in the car with her, to the Montgomery County Animal Shelter.
The driver faces misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and failure to comply with the order of a police officer.
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