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Drug Impaired Driver Crashes into Cemetery

(Michigan City, IN) - Police say a driver was impaired when she crashed through the fence of a Michigan City graveyard.  It happened about 9 p.m. on June 22 at Greenwood Cemetery.

 

Michigan City Police said Debra Underwood, 35, crashed through the fence on the north side of the cemetery in her car and also damaged a grave marker.  A witness spotted her running from the car to her nearby home on Cloud Street.  Police said responding officers located her inside the enclosed patio of the home with blood on her arm and face from injuries sustained in the crash.

 

It’s alleged that Underwood was under the influence of drugs judging from the fentanyl and oxycodone found on her possession at the La Porte County Jail.

 

Underwood is charged with Level 5 felony possession of a narcotic drug; Level 5 felony cemetery mischief; Class A misdemeanor operating while intoxicated and Class B misdemeanor leaving the scene of an accident.

 

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