Boardman woman faces multiple impaired-driving charges

Staff report

BOARDMAN

A township woman who police say was driving with nine open-driving suspensions faces multiple charges after she was arrested for impaired driving.

Police stopped Amy Sorvillo, 39, of East Parkside Drive, after she ignored commands to stop at a sobriety checkpoint on U.S. Route 224 near Marinthana Avenue on Sunday. According to police reports, she drove through the checkpoint at a high rate of speed.

When police stopped her car near Market Street, they reportedly observed her wearing only one shoe and exhibiting signs of intoxication.

They also discovered that she was under nine open-driving suspensions and had not possessed a valid driver’s license since February 2009.

They also found that she has two prior convictions for operating a vehicle while impaired and had two other OVI arrests that had been reduced to lesser charges.

After failing a field-sobriety test and testing for a 0.156 blood-alcohol content – the legal limit for intoxication in Ohio is 0.08 – Sorvillo was arrested on a charge of OVI (second offense within six years), OVI-prohibited blood-alcohol content, two charges of driving under suspension, driving under a license forfeiture suspension and cited for failure to obey traffic-control devices.