The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
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Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:45 PM
Police Arrest Woman With "Worst DUI Record" In Nation Again for DUI Near Riverside, IL
Police reported receiving a 911 call around 9:30 p.m. on Monday about a woman passed out behind the wheel of her car at a gas station. 41-year-old Tasha Lynn Schleicher was found trying to fill up her gas tank with kerosene with an open bottle of whiskey in her car, officials said.
Witnesses told authorities that she had been drinking before they arrived. When she was arrested, she allegedly gave police a fake name, birth date and social security number. CBS Chicago reported she told police she had previously been with her children, was pregnant, bleeding and having a miscarriage.
After taking Schleicher to a hospital, it was revealed that she was not pregnant nor suffering any medical problems. Authorities said they believe she made up the pregnancy to escape police custody.
Schleicher was charged with two felony counts of aggravated drunk driving and two misdemeanor counts of drunk driving. She was also charged with driving without insurance, driving on a revoked license and transportation of open alcohol while driving.
She has a lengthy record of drunk driving arrests, police told CBS Chicago, and had her children taken away last year after she drove drunk with five children and tried to breastfeed a baby while intoxicated.
“This is one of the worst impaired driving arrests our agency has ever made. Schneider’s history of six prior DUI’s in six states, with three outstanding warrants from various states speaks to her transient nature. When she was arrested in a state, she would just not show up in court unless she was held in custody. That’s one of the reasons for so many outstanding warrants,” Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel said.