Crime & Safety
Mass. Woman Drives Drunk to Wrong House — Twice
A 20-year-old Peabody, Mass., woman is facing driving under the influence charges after she allegedly showed up drunk at the door of a Portsmouth resident's house after 2 a.m. looking for someone who doesn't live there anymore — twice.
A 20-year-old Peabody, Mass., woman is facing driving under the influence charges after she allegedly showed up drunk at the door of a Portsmouth resident’s house after 2 a.m. looking for someone who doesn't live there anymore — twice.
Police said Taylor Lee Provost, 20, of 23 Summit Terrace, approached a homeowner on Boyds Lane in the early morning house on June 7 with another unidentified female looking for someone who no longer lives there.
The homeowner called police to report the two females appeared highly intoxicated and gave a description of the vehicle they were driving.
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Almost an hour later, an officer at the stop sign at Anthony Road and Boyds Lane saw a car pull into the driveway of the same house.
It was Provost, according to a police report, and when asked what was going on she said she was sorry and just wanted to leave and go home.
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Provost allegedly told police that she had been at the house a short time earlier with a female friend “and returned to try and find her friend who she believed had lived there in the past.”
Police said she smelled like alcohol and failed a field sobriety test.
She later refused a chemical test at police headquarters.
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