Police find driver with sores and 19 needles in car

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A 28-year-old woman was arraigned in municipal court Wednesday after state troopers found 19 needles in her car Sunday morning.

Danielle Liese of West Main Street in Greenville, Pa., was pulled over for an improper lane charge on Interstate 680 north near the ramp for state Route 711. She had to be taken from the Mahoning County jail to a hospital to be treated for sores on her body from injecting herself with heroin, reports said.

Reports said when Liese was pulled over by a member of the Ohio State Highway Patrol Canfield barracks, she tried to hide the contents of her purse, and she appeared to be intoxicated. She was taken to the jail on a charge of operating a vehicle while under the influence after the trooper saw puncture marks on her, reports said. She told the trooper she had taken heroin about two hours before she was stopped.

Besides the needles, troopers also found four spoons and a small amount of heroin and cocaine, reports said. Reports noted that all of the needles were uncapped.

She was arraigned on two felony-counts of possession of drugs, and bond was set at $3,500 for each charge. She also was arraigned on misdemeanor charges of OVI, possession of drugs, possession of drug-abuse instruments and possession of drug paraphernalia. She entered pleas of not guilty on the misdemeanors. Bond was set at $1,500 with 10 percent allowed to be posted on each misdemeanor.

Reports said she told troopers on her way to the hospital that she has to take heroin every two hours.