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Wrong Way Driver Arrested for OWI

(La Porte County, IN) - A woman traveling the wrong way on a four lane highway in La Porte County was arrested this morning for impaired driving.  Marjorie Mayes, 54, was booked into the La Porte County Jail on Class A misdemeanor operating while intoxicated.

 

Police said officers about 12:15 a.m. responded to a report of a vehicle eastbound in the westbound lanes of U.S. 30 from Porter County with no headlights on.  Several minutes later, the vehicle was still in the wrong lanes with the headlights now activated in Wanatah, police said.  The vehicle was drifting between the two westbound lanes before pulled over near Hanna.  Police said Mayes claimed she was trying to return home to Calumet City, Illinois but was lost.  Her alleged blood alcohol level was .208 percent.

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