After a citizen report, a driver with a suspended license was stopped. She got a court date for driving while suspended, and a warning for texting while driving.

Alexandria J. Hacker-Warner, 26, Bloomington, is scheduled to be in court for an initial hearing on August 27.

Deputy Allor was dispatched around 5:19 p.m. on Friday, July 17, when a concerned citizen called the sheriff’s department to report a reckless driver.

Dispatch advised Deputy Allor the caller reported a light blue Volkswagen Beetle with a handicap license plate was headed east on State Road 54 toward Bloomfield from the intersection of State Road 57 – commonly known as the Lighthouse junction. The caller said the vehicle was all over the roadway and almost hit a semi-truck head-on.

Deputy Allor was sitting alongside State Road 54 west of Bloomfield at the time and when the VW passed, he reported a woman was driving the VW with a cell phone in her hand. A traffic stop was initiated and the VW pulled into the parking lot of Huck’s on West Main Street in Bloomfield.

Hacker-Warner was the driver who said she didn’t have her driver’s license with her. When asked if her license was suspended, she allegedly said it shouldn’t be because she had paid all her fines to get her license back.

A records check revealed her driver’s license was suspended and she had a prior conviction for driving while suspended in March of 2020.

Hacker is facing a new charge of driving while suspended – a knowing violation with a prior conviction within 10 years, a Class A misdemeanor.

Deputy Allor also handed her a warning for texting while operating a motor vehicle.