Crime & Safety
Man Charged With Drunken Driving With Three Kids In Car
The information in this report is from the Twinsburg Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A 37-year-old Cleveland man was charged with drunken driving and child endangerment after the Twinsburg Police say he was driving drunk with three children in the car.
On April 1 at about 12:54 a.m., a Twinsburg police officer saw a a GMC Yukon pull over onto the shoulder while driving East on I-480. The officer came to assist and the driver told the cop that he had pulled over to fix the volume on the movie playing for the kids in the backseat. The kids were aged 5, 12, and 13.
A check of the driver showed that the man was driving with a suspended license. The officer also smelled alcohol on the driver's breath. He was arrested and charged with drunken driving and child endangerment.
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The other adult passenger, a 34-year-old woman, was charged with wrongful entrustment for letting the man drive her car.
The car was towed and the woman and the children were dropped off at a relative's house in Twinsburg.
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