Youngstown woman charged with OVI, urinates in cruiser

Staff report

BOARDMAN

A Youngstown woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Mahoning County Area Court to operating a motor vehicle while impaired after she was arrested early Sunday.

Durrielle Frazier, 33, of Ferndale Avenue was pulled over by township police after an officer observed her driving into oncoming traffic on Midlothian Boulevard near Interstate 680 and then drive through a red light, according to a police report.

Police described Frazier as “grossly intoxicated,” saying that she could barely speak and handed the officer a McDonald’s receipt and a photograph of her child instead of her driver’s license. Police also reported that she urinated in the car, and then two more times in the police cruiser and at the Ohio State Highway Patrol post in Canfield.

Police were unable to administer field-sobriety tests because they believed she would fall down and hurt herself.

After they placed her under arrest on the OVI charge, Frazier reportedly slipped the handcuffs so her hands were in front of her body and managed to take off one cuff. Frazier refused an OVI test at the OSHP post and was charged with OVI refusal with a prior OVI conviction in the past 20 years. She also was charged with driving on the wrong side of a divided roadway, red-light violation and a second OVI offense within six years. Frazier was convicted of an OVI offense in 2011.

She is scheduled to be back in court for a pretrial Feb. 12.