OPP NEWS RELEASE
************************* LAIRD TWP, ON - An Echo Bay woman has been charged with drinking and driving over the weekend and a child was in the car with her.
On Sunday 19 May 2007 at about 10 p.m. the officer was patroling Lakeview Road in Laird Township.
The officer noticed a vehicle leaving a private drive in a manner that caught his attention.
As the officer approached the vehicle he saw a small child about five years old in the vehicle.
The driver showed indicators that she had been drinking.
A test at the scene revealed that the driver would be taken to the police station for further testing.
A relative of the child attended the scene and took care of the five-year-old.
Further testing at the station alleges that the driver was over the legal limit to be driving.
Forty-one-year-old Denise Cooper of Bar River Road in Echo Bay has been charged with one count of driving while over the legal limit of .08.
She will appear in court on June 18, 2007.
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