Student arrested after
locking herself in police car
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Audrie Garrison |
POSTED AT
12:00 AM ON Apr. 5, 2006
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Bloomington Police Department officer Brandon Lopossa arrested junior Lauren Yoder on preliminary charges of public intoxication after she locked herself inside a marked squad car, said BPD Det. Sgt. David Drake, reading from the police report.
According to the report, Lopossa was working at the station at about 2 a.m. Friday when two men approached him after he walked out the back door. The two men reported they had just seen a woman crawl into the backseat of a marked police car.
In the report, Lopossa said as he went to check the cars, he observed a woman sitting inside the back seat of a marked car, pressing her face and hands up to the rear side window and looking at him.
"Apparently the door had been unlocked and she was able to get in, but once you get in, you can't get out," Drake said.
Drake said since the back doors of police cars cannot be opened from the inside and a partition prevents passengers from crawling into the front seat, Lopossa had to let her out himself.
According to the report, the female, who was later identified as Yoder, smelled strongly of alcohol and had slurred speech.
Drake said Lopossa escorted her over to his own police car, and transported her to the hospital, and then the Monroe County Jail.
Yoder did not return attempts to contact her by e-mail or instant messenger by press time.