Police say a Linton woman drove over parking curbs in a restaurant parking lot then almost hit a patrol vehicle late last night.

Crystal Dawn Wilson, 28, Linton, was arrested by Officer Joe Riley of the Linton Police Department following an incident late last night, Tuesday, May 12. Wilson was booked into the Greene County Jail around 12:30 a.m. this morning, Wednesday, May 13.

Officer Riley and LPD Officer John Agan were dispatched to the area of the Taco Bell restaurant after a caller reported a blue Ford F-150 pickup truck traveling on A Street was not staying in its lane before turning into the Taco Bell lot. The caller, who turned in after the pickup truck, said she saw the driver get out of the truck and stumble toward the door. The driver then got back in the truck and went to the drive-through.

Wilson was later identified as the driver of a blue truck.

Shortly before the two officers arrived in the area, LPD dispatch got a call from an employee at Taco Bell who said a woman in a blue pickup had been in their drive and was saying she ordered food but she had not ordered anything.

Officer Riley, the investigating officer in this case, said as he entered the Taco Bell lot, the pickup truck drove north out of the drive-through lane, drove over three parking curbs and almost drove into oncoming traffic on A Street. The pickup truck then turned back west toward the lot entrance, almost hitting Officer Agan’s patrol vehicle as he was arriving. Officer Riley said the pickup truck came to a stop facing south in the parking lot, between the patrol vehicles of the two officers.

Officer Riley said Wilson got out of the truck looking confused and disheveled, holding a five-dollar bill. He reported detecting a strong odor of alcohol and she exhibited several signs of impairment.

Wilson could not keep her balance to complete standard field sobriety testing and was transported to the Linton Police Department.

At the police department, she failed standard field sobriety testing and chemical test results showed she had a BAC of .089. The legal limit is .08. She was transported and booked into jail.

Her bond was initially set at $8,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. As of Wednesday evening, May 13, she had not yet posted bond and remained in jail.

Preliminary charges filed against her include: Operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalent to at least .08 but less than .15, a Class C misdemeanor, and operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, a Class A misdemeanor. A date for an initial hearing has not been set.