(La Porte, IN) - A Kentucky woman asleep at the wheel with her three year old granddaughter in the vehicle last year in La Porte is back in jail on drug related allegations.

 

Theresa Bowker, 60, of is charged in La Porte Circuit Court with Level 6 felony possession of methamphetamine.

 

According to court documents, she was passenger in a vehicle driven by her daughter pulled over for twice not using a turn signal early on September 5 in the area of E. Lincolnway and Audley St.

 

Police said Bowker was found with less than a gram of methamphetamine in her purse after evidence of drug use was discovered in the vehicle.

 

Her daughter, Cassie Butler, 42, of La Porte is charged with possession of methamphetamine and driving without ever receiving a license.

 

According to court documents, Bowker was found sleeping while reclined in the driver's seat of a 2002 Ford Explorer.  The SUV was parked in a field in the area on County Road 100 West just north of La Porte in late June of last year.

 

Her granddaughter was in the front passenger seat awake and alert, police said.

 

Police said the woman's blood alcohol level was .268 percent or more than three times the legal limit.

 

Bowker was later given a two year sentence mostly spent on probation for operating while intoxicated.  A neglect of a dependent charge was dismissed in exchange for the plea, according to court records.