Bvck mom not drunk when she dropped kids off at school

BEAVERCREEK, Ohio (WDTN) - From our partners at the Greene County Dailies/Beavercreek News-Current:

A Riverside mom who's accused of driving while intoxicated when she dropped off her children at a Beavercreek school may not have been drunk, but it's not clear yet if she was under the influence of drugs.

At 7:54 a.m. Friday, June 10, Beavercreek police officers were called to Main Elementary after a school staff member noticed that when Kimberly King, 41, arrived at school with her four children. King was allegedly having trouble opening her vehicle doors and was acting as if she were intoxicated.

Preliminary tests results back from the Miami Valley Regional Crime Laboratory show King's blood alcohol level to be 0.0.

According to the documents obtained from Fairborn Municipal Court clerks, Laureen Marinetti, chief forensic toxicologist at MVRCL, informed arresting Beavercreek police officer Roger Hilderbrandt that results from the drug analysis on King would be completed in four to six weeks. Marinetti dated the letter June 27.

In his request for the drug and alcohol tests, Officer Hilderbrandt stated that King was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated (OVI) after dropping her kids off at school. He stated that King was suspected of abusing pain killers, and that she was unable to perform field sobriety tests at the time of the arrest.

When King first appeared in court on the OVI charge, Judge Beth Root entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf. King at the time was still trying to retain an attorney. She is due back in court on Monday, July 18 for a pre-trial.

After King's initial appearance in court, she told reporters that she was distraught and in extreme pain the day she was arrested. She said her mother recently passed away and her ex-husband who lives in Beavercreek had just filed for full custody of their four children. She also said she was limping that day due to an injury on her foot.

If convicted of OVI, King faces a minimum sentence of three days in jail, or three days of rehabilitation treatment, and up to a maximum of six months jail time.

This is not the first time King has appeared in Fairborn Municipal Court.

On Feb. 15, she was cited after rear-ending a vehicle, causing it to crash into a bus carrying children in Beavercreek. King was traveling northbound on Hanes Road behind a Ford Explorer and a Wright State Mini-University bus. When the bus stopped to unload children, King, driving a Chevrolet Denali, struck the Ford Explorer in front of her from behind causing it to hit the bus. She was found guilty of the minor misdemeanor and paid court costs of $125.

In January 2005, she pleaded no contest to a hit skip crash and her driver's license was suspended for six months.

In June 2004, King was convicted of four counts of child endangering and was placed on probation.

Because of that previous child endangerment conviction, felony charges of child endangerment may be sought against King.

Beavercreek News Current Editor Jodi Milburn and Fairborn Daily Herald Editor Amanda Crowe contributed to this story.