Portsmouth Municipal Court dismissed OVI charges filed against New Boston Police Officer Lindi Anderson at pre-trial hearing held on Monday.
The case was filed with the court back on 5-28 and on June 6, her attorney requested a jury trial.
You’ll recall that Ohio State Troopers cited Anderson back at the end of May after they found her slumped over the wheel of her vehicle in a West Portsmouth driveway.
Officers were responding to a report of a reckless driver who was drinking behind the wheel and weaving in and out of traffic. The woman even drove through a nearby yard.
When officers caught up with Lindi Anderson, bodycam video shows she was slumped over at the wheel and didn’t wake up until an officer pounded on the window.
Anderson immediately woke up and greeted the officer. She denied being slumped over the wheel or diving erratically and claimed that the only thing she’d been drinking was a soft drink.
Officers put Anderson through a series of sobriety tests and then gave her the option of going with a trooper for a breathalyzer or blood alcohol test or accepting a citation for OVI.
Officers did not arrest Anderson at the scene. This is standard procedure when there’s been no accident, the driver is a first-time offender, and the driver is already home.
Anderson was also charged with failure to stop at a stop sign. She did not contest that charge and wrote the court a check for $120.
