A 35-year-old Archbald woman \u2014 driving with her 5-year-old daughter in the vehicle \u2014 faces charges after police said her blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit following a traffic stop Thursday.<\/p>\n
While traveling on the 1100 block of Commerce Boulevard in Dickson City around 7:35 p.m., Patrolman Brandon Gromada observed a vehicle nearly sideswipe another car, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
The suspect \u2014 identified as Amanda Burke \u2014 was driving a white Ford Bronco and crossed over the dashed white-line marker with both right tires before abruptly swerving back into her lane, police said.<\/p>\n
Gromada activated his vehicle\u2019s in-car front camera to begin recording the Bronco and witnessed the SUV fail to signal a lane change and turn east onto Business Route 6 at Commerce Boulevard.<\/p>\n
When Gromada tried to get behind the SUV, he said the vehicle crossed into the center left-turn lane with both left tires before again abruptly swerving back into the correct lane.<\/p>\n
The vehicle almost sideswiped another one before nearly rear-ending a vehicle that was stopped at a traffic light at Business Route 6 and Scott Road, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
After Gromada activated his vehicle\u2019s overhead lights to initiate a traffic stop, Burke headed for the parking lot at Days Inn but misjudged the turn and ran over the curb.<\/p>\n
During the stop, Gromada detected a moderate odor of alcohol coming from Burke\u2019s vehicle, and she had a delayed response when asked to provide her driver\u2019s license, registration and vehicle insurance, according to the criminal complaint. The officer also observed Burke to have glassy eyes.<\/p>\n
Burke initially denied drinking any alcohol but later admitted to having a margarita with dinner, police said.<\/p>\n
When Burke exited the SUV, she began swaying and fell into the vehicle after stumbling, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Burke also started swaying during a field sobriety test, and Gromada noted she lost balance several times and didn\u2019t agree to complete the test.<\/p>\n
Burke voluntarily provided a breath sample, which registered as 0.211. The legal limit in Pennsylvania is 0.08.<\/p>\n
Police charged Burke, 119 First St., with endangering the welfare of children and DUI.<\/p>\n
Burke was released on $20,000 unsecured bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 12 at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 35-year-old Archbald woman \u2014 driving with her 5-year-old daughter in the vehicle \u2014 faces charges after police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2117,202,1099,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-319867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-archbald","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-dickson-city","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}