Boardman teacher arrested for operating a motor vehicle impaired

Staff report

CANFIELD

A Mahoning County deputy sheriff arrested a Boardman teacher Saturday night after he struck another vehicle, failed to stop for a deputy who tried to pull him over, and then registered a blood-alcohol content more than double the legal limit.

Andrew Wade, 37, of Canfield, a teacher at Glenwood Middle School, faces a traffic charge of operating a motor vehicle impaired and a charge of failure to comply with the order of a police officer.

According to a report, a deputy who was working an Operating a Vehicle Impaired blitz patrol Saturday was sitting in the Tippecanoe Square parking lot at 6:55 p.m. when he noticed a white Chevrolet Malibu traveling north on Tippecanoe Court move left of the center line and hit the side of a vehicle traveling south on the street.

The vehicle failed to stop, and continued traveling north toward Tippecanoe Road when the deputy activated his emergency lights and siren.

The vehicle then ran a stop sign, turned left onto Indian Run Drive, turned right onto Catawba Drive and then continued to a nearby apartment complex.

After being transported to the Canfield Police Department after a field-sobriety test, a breath test registered Wade’s blood-alcohol content at 0.17. The legal limit for intoxication in Ohio is 0.8.

His license was immediately suspended. The deputy also cited him cited for the hit-skip accident.

Wade is set to appear in Mahoning County Area Court here Thursday.