Sleeping in a Bank Parking Lot Leads to DWI, Drug Charges

A local woman was arraigned earlier this month on multiple charges after allegedly sleeping in a running car.

Cassi Page, 26, of Tilton Hill Road in Pittsfield, was arrested at 7 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2014, and charged with driving while intoxicated, possession of controlled drugs, and possession of drugs.

Concord Police and Fire and Rescue teams were called to a report of a person with a medical issue in parking lot of the Santander Bank on West Street, according to a police report, with a woman passed out in a car, blocking the exit of the bank.

The vehicle, according to the report, was facing the wrong way, almost perpendicular and was about two feet from Broadway and not in a parking space. Firefighters later determined that the woman was asleep and not having a medical issue. The woman, later identified as Page, got into the driver’s seat of the car, shut the door, and turned the vehicle back on. The reporting officer knocked on the window to speak with her about how she was parked. Page allegedly said she was sleeping, realized she was parked oddly, and apologized.

The officer asked why she wasn’t in a parking space sleeping and she allegedly “seemed confused by the question, but stated that she was in the parking lot.” The officer alleged that she had droopy eyelids, slurred her words, stammered while speaking, and appeared to be “on the nod.”

When asked if she was on drugs or had been drinking, she reportedly spoke about depressant prescriptions she was on and the officer shined a flashlight at her purse.

“Page became enraged and turned to me and stated that I could not shine my flashlight in her car,” the officer alleged. “Page started to yell at me … I told her to lower her voice and stop yelling.”

After speaking about the prescriptions and whether or not she wanted to take a field sobriety test, Page reportedly told the officer she was not impaired and wanted to leave. After asking a second time if she wanted to submit to a field sobriety test, Page allegedly stated, “Fine, let’s do it and get this over with.”

She was later arrested.

During a pat down search, Page allegedly started screaming and making accusations at the officer.

A second officer spoke to a witness who alleged seeing the car parked in an odd manner while it was running with a woman reclined in the driver’s seat with her arm sticking up in the air. The witness later called his wife and requested that 911 be called to check on the woman.

During an inventory search, the second officer allegedly found marijuana in the car. During processing, Page allegedly fell asleep on a cell bench and later, stated that the marijuana was her boyfriend’s.

Editor’s note: The following post was derived from information supplied by the Concord Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. Click this link to find out how to get a name removed from a New Hampshire Patch arrest report.