DE MOTTE, Ind. — A Chicago woman is in jail after state police said she called 911 on herself while driving home drunk from a casino.
When the officer arrived, she tried to kiss him.
According to state police, at approximately 1:36 a.m. Sunday, police received a 911 call from a woman, later identified as 42-year-old Meisha Thomas, who “sounded highly intoxicated and was providing erratic information to dispatchers.”
Dispatchers tracked her location, and a trooper responded to the area and located her vehicle traveling between 30 and 50 mph in a posted 70 mph zone after she had left Lake County and entered Jasper County on I-65.
Police said Thomas was swerving across lanes, impeding traffic, and causing other motorists to brake and take evasive action. Once the trooper pulled Thomas over, she told him that she had left the casino in Gary and was traveling home to Chicago. Investigators determined she had traveled approximately 36 miles in the wrong direction.
Throughout the encounter, Thomas made repeated inappropriate sexual comments and physical advances toward the arresting trooper, including attempting to kiss him while he was securing her in a seat belt. Despite being told to stop, Thomas continued making “kissing gestures, sounds, and suggestive remarks,” according to police.
Thomas could not safely complete standardized field sobriety testing and later refused Indiana’s implied consent law, police said. A search warrant was obtained for a blood draw, and a sample was collected at a hospital. She was then taken to the Jasper County jail and has been preliminarily charged with the following offenses:
