Officer Arrested For Driving Drunk, Crashing
Posted: 4:35 pm EDT October 1, 2003Updated: 5:51 pm EDT October 1, 2003
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- She's supposed to be on the roads keeping you safe. Instead, she's under arrest for causing an accident while driving drunk and apparently lying to police. And, this isn't the first time this Daytona Beach police officer has been in trouble for hitting the road drunk.
Before she worked as an officer, she was convicted on DUI and driving with an open container. This time, Minokah Lipps refused to take a breathalyzer.The police report shows that Daytona Police Officer Minokah Lipps claims some guy she just met, whose name is Kevin, was driving her personal jeep when it crashed into a car at an intersection in Ormond Beach. But two witnesses, including the man who lives in a nearby house who was first on the scene, put Officer Lipps behind the wheel.The Ormond Beach Police report says Lipps refused to take a breathalyzer test and refused to do field sobriety tests even though she told police she was not the driver in the accident. The report says she was insulting to the Ormond officer at the scene.The man who lives on the corner where the crash happened told police he ran out when he heard the crash and said Lipps was behind the wheel of the jeep. He saw her get out as he was calling 9-1-1 and finding out who needed help.
The report says, when police got there, Lipps told them a guy named Kevin was driving, that after the crash he took off running and that he was "lightning fast." And the report says her female passenger first told police Lipps was driving, but changed her story back and forth after talking with Lipps. Police say both women smelled of alcohol and that there was an open bottle of beer in the jeep.The Daytona Beach Police say they hired Minokah Lipps even though she had a DUI conviction because legally they can and it had been a lot longer than five years since that had happened.But this time around, she might not be so lucky. She's on paid leave and police say she might stay off the job, even if she gets her license back before trial, until this whole thing plays out in court.
Before she worked as an officer, she was convicted on DUI and driving with an open container. This time, Minokah Lipps refused to take a breathalyzer.The police report shows that Daytona Police Officer Minokah Lipps claims some guy she just met, whose name is Kevin, was driving her personal jeep when it crashed into a car at an intersection in Ormond Beach. But two witnesses, including the man who lives in a nearby house who was first on the scene, put Officer Lipps behind the wheel.The Ormond Beach Police report says Lipps refused to take a breathalyzer test and refused to do field sobriety tests even though she told police she was not the driver in the accident. The report says she was insulting to the Ormond officer at the scene.The man who lives on the corner where the crash happened told police he ran out when he heard the crash and said Lipps was behind the wheel of the jeep. He saw her get out as he was calling 9-1-1 and finding out who needed help.
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