A Billings, Montana, woman accused of calling police and saying she was
"just too damn drunk" to get out of her vehicle was charged on
Wednesday with her fourth drunken-driving offence. Carol Frances
Omeara, 55, appeared in Yellowstone County Justice Court by video from
the county jail on a felony DUI charge.
Judge Larry Herman set bond at $3,000 after a prosecutor said Omeara has
three prior DUI convictions in California. Omeara was arrested on
Tuesday at about 10:40pm after a police dispatcher received a call from
a woman who said she could not get out of her vehicle, which was
parked outside her residence.
"When asked if she was having a medical or mechanical issue,
the caller said, `No, I'm just too damn drunk,'"
court records state. An officer said he found Omeara inside the
vehicle, which was parked about two feet from the kerb. The woman
reportedly told the officer she had been at a Billings bar for about
five hours, had driven home but had been sitting in her car in front of
her home for about four hours.
Prosecutors said Omeara told the officer she had consumed a pint of
vodka. The keys to the vehicle were in her pocket. Omeara agreed to
provide a breath sample, and the result of the preliminary test showed
she had a blood-alcohol level of 0.311 percent, nearly four times the
state legal limit of 0.08.
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