BEDFORD – On Friday, May 31, Bedford Police Department Officer Sarah Haluda responded to the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence County after a report of a woman drinking alcohol and smoking a pipe in her vehicle.
At 5:40 p.m. Officer Haluda found the woman in a Chevrolet Equinox parked haphazardly in the Thornton Park playground parking lot.
Officer Haluda approached the vehicle and found 50-year-old Kimberly Parker in the driver’s seat. A bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade was in the cup holder, and a glass pipe was sitting on the console. Police also found a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Parker was asked to step out of the vehicle. She began to comply but became distracted and began rolling the window up, and she had to be told again to step out of the vehicle. Parker got out of the vehicle, got argumentative, and continued to try to get back in.
Parker admitted there was marijuana in the vehicle. She said she had driven the vehicle to Thornton Park from the National Guard Armory. She admitted to smoking the drug in her vehicle.
Officer Haluda said Parker was unsteady on her feet and slow to answer questions. She found a plastic pouch labeled “medical cannabis” and the glass smoking device.
Parker was asked to submit to standardized field sobriety tests, which she failed.
Parker admitted to drinking beers, then said she meant the Mike’s Hard Lemonades and taken several shots of Jack Daniels.
Parker admitted she “had been out drinking, smoking, driving, and simply enjoying the views.”
Parker agreed to do a SoToxa test. SoToxa is a handheld analyzer that uses an oral fluid swab to detect the presence of six kinds of drugs: cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, cannabis (THC), amphetamine, and benzodiazepines. Parker tested positive for cannabis.
She was detained and transported to IU Health Bedford Hospital for a blood draw.
Parker was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, OWI controlled substance, OWI with a prior conviction, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia
