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Published - Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Hillsboro woman faces 5th OMVWI

The Tomah Police Department pulled over Terry Sullivan of Hillsboro as she drove through town on May 27 around 6:30 a.m. She was pulled over for an obstructed view from items hung in her rear window, but the incident soon t

urned into her fifth Operating a Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated (OMVWI) violation when she was found to be under the influence of marijuana.

Officer Steven Keller stopped the car and told Sullivan about the restricted view. He issued a warning to Sullivan

, and she took down a dream catcher that hung in her car. Officer Jarrod Furlano was also on the scene. Sullivan, 42, told police that she was on her way to Fort McCoy where she works cleaning barracks.

According to the police report, Officer Keller notic

ed that Sullivan’s pupils were constricted and she talked slowly. Sgt. Chris Weaver soon appeared at the scene. Sullivan granted consent for a search of her vehicle, where Officer Furlano found a rolled cigarette with a green, leafy substance. The substanc

e was observed to be marijuana. A Liggett cigarette box with rolled marijuana cigarettes was seized by police.

Officer Keller performed a standard field sobriety test on Sullivan. According to the police report, Sulivan seemed unsmooth and jerky during the

horizontal gaze test. No indications were observed during a vertical nystagmus test. Sullivan also performed the walk and turn test, the one leg stand, reciting the alphabet — which she properly did — and did not register a blood-alcohol level.

Sullivan w

as placed under arrest and brought to Tomah Memorial Hospital where her blood was tested.

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