Police Beat: DWI/endangering the welfare of minors — (The Cabin)

2. DWI/endangering the welfare of minors at 1200 block of Clifton Street. An officer observed a white Chevrolet Tahoe travelling north on the street late Saturday night fail to dim its lights as he passed. The officer initiated a traffic stop at which point the SUV pulled into a parking lot and slowly crashed into a building. When the officer made contact with the driver, who was later identified as Grace Dent, 49, 8 Susan Lane, Conway, she gave the officer a driver’s license indicating that she was a 16-year-old girl named Paula, which the officer found immediately suspicious. The officer found that the woman was travelling with two children in the front passenger’s seat, six children in the back seat and a glass half-full of vodka in the center console cupholder. Seven mothers were contacted and arrived at the scene to collect their children, and the eighth child, a 16-year-old girl named Paula, was collected by her brother. Dent later admitted to having been under the influence of painkillers, Prozac and other anti-depressants at the time of her crash and arrest.