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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Mom Arrested For DUI After Allowing Underage Son To Drive

   DUI charges were placed against a local woman on Wednesday after she allowed her fourteen-year-old son to drive because she had allegedly been intoxicated.

   A deputy with the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department reports that he was on routine patrol near Cummings Road when he noticed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed with a young male riding in the truck bed.

   The deputy reports following the truck. He said that at one point the driver approached a horse and buggy. He said that, still traveling at a high rate of speed, the driver moved into the lane of on-coming traffic, then darted back into the correct lane after passing the buggy.

He reports that the driver narrowly avoided colliding head-on with another vehicle, then nearly collided with the horse as he re-entered his own lane of travel.

   The deputy conducted a traffic stop and learned that the male in the rear of the truck and the male driver were both fourteen years old. He said that the driver's mother was in the passenger seat and that there was a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage inside the truck.

   The driver told the deputy that they had been swimming at a nearby creek and that his mother had been drinking. He said that he had refused to ride with his mother and that he and his friend had begun to leave on foot. He said his mother drove up to them and told him, "He could drive if they would just get in."

   The mother, Shannon Yvonne Sandlin, 34, was given field sobriety tests. The deputy reports that she failed to perform satisfactorily.

   Sandlin was placed under arrest on charges that include two counts of reckless endangerment and DUI for allowing her unlicensed son to drive. She was issued citations for violation of the seatbelt law and also criminal littering after she threw a still-cold beer bottle into a ditch.

   Sandlin was transported for incarceration at the Lawrence County Detention Center. The teens were released into the custody of a relative.  

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