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A Report from the Hinterlands
Her husband out of town, Sarah was taking her sister, Rosita, to the airport. Rosita had tickets for Florida. It was the beginning of Thanksgiving weekend. Both Timothy and Heather were in the car, Heather riding in back in her car seat,
In Brookpark, they ran into a traffic checkpoint and the officer required identification from both Sarah, the driver, and Rosita, the passenger. They complied.
The computer came back with an outstanding warrant on Rosita, and although she claimed that the entire matter surrounding the warrant had been put to rest years before, the officer's job was to arrest her.
This was too strange for Sarah and she began to argue with the cop, evidently arguing too much, because he also arrested her on charges of obstructing police business, ignoring a police order, and resisting arrest. Child Services came and took the kids, who spent a couple days somewhere while Sarah and Rosita were in jail.
"I was in shock," Sarah said. "I still am."
Everything worked out okay- the warrant had been cancelled years ago, and the mayor dismissed all the charges for Sarah. Not counting, of course, that Rosita missed the trip to Florida and that Sarah got to see what jail's like on the inside and, of course, who knows how the story ends with the children.
No big deal. Just a traffic stop. For drunks, you know?
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