(La Porte, IN) - A woman has been accused of driving a vehicle in La Porte after taking heroin.

Lyric Stroud, 32, has been charged in La Porte Circuit Court with Operating a Vehicle while Intoxicated.

During the afternoon of March 4th, the Springville woman was reportedly taking her sister to work when she pulled to the side of Roberts Street and then asked her sister to call 911.

Stroud told officers she used to be a regular user of heroin but she hadn’t consumed any for about two years. However, according to court documents, she said she had used heroin about 10 minutes prior to pulling over and, feeling strange, felt she was overdosing.

Stroud was taken by ambulance to Northwest Health for a medical evaluation before later being booked into the La Porte County Jail on the OWI charge.