Crime & Safety

Court Brief: Mom Pleads Guilty to Driving Drunk

A Harper Woods mother is spending 180 days in the Macomb County Jail after driving drunk to pick up her child at Elmwood Elementary School.

A 50-year-old Harper Woods woman is serving a 180-day sentence in the Macomb County Jail after pleading guilty to charges she drove drunk to pick up her child at .

Clementina Ritchie pleaded guilty before Judge Joseph Oster to operating impaired, second offense, for driving drunk on Sept. 20 to pick her child up after school.

According to St. Clair Shores Police, as Ritchie drove east on California street, her vehicle hit a number of side mirrors of parked cars along the roadway as she approached the school. She fled the scene, and was arrested by officers as she walked to school.

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Investigators determined she had a 0.23 blood alcohol content.

"It was fortunate school had not let out,"  St. Clair Shores Police Lt. Tom Willette said.

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Ritchie had a prior drunken driving conviction in 2009 out of Waterford.


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