Mom gets OUI rap after 8-year-old son calls 911

VANCOUVER, Wash. - An 8-year-old boy riding with his mom called 911 repeatedly to
report that she wasn’t “acting normal.”

When the cops caught up to the car, they agreed. They arrested mom on suspicion of drunken driving, reckless endangerment and assault of a child.

The drama continued for some time on Saturday, as cops zeroed in on the phone’s GPS transmitter.

“He said ‘I don’t know where we are, and Mom’s not acting normal,’ ” sheriff’s Sgt. Randon M. Walker said. At one point, Paulette Lynn Spears took the phone from the boy, told the dispatcher not to worry and hung up, Walker said. The boy called back, and again his mother cut short the call.

“The mother kept interrupting the 8-year-old,” he said. “It happened at least twice.”

At one point, Walker said, Spears apparently bit the boy’s hand to get the phone away from him. Spears, 33, was arrested after she drove to a fire station and said she had a medical problem. Cops arrived at the station less than a minute later.