Tag: drunk
Woman assaults cops, EMT after losing money to pinball machine in bowling alley
A dangerously drunk Monroe woman assaulted police officers and an EMT after she lost money to a pinball machine at a Pennsylvania bowling alley.
Kilee Nicole Cunningham, 36, was asked to leave Blue Mountain Lanes on Moorestown Road Sunday night after she punched the glass of a pinball machine despite being reimbursed for the money.
Cunningham instead asked for more alcohol and chucked a cup of water in the face of an employee when he refused, Lehigh Valley Live reported.
When officers arrived at the scene to speak with her, she was uncooperative and they attempted to take her into custody for public drunkenness.
While restrained in handcuffs in a police vehicle, Cunningham unbuckled her seatbelt and continued to resist officers. She kicked an officer in the chest and headbutted him for trying to return her to the vehicle.
At the Slate Belt Regional police headquarters, she kicked an officer who tried to place her in a holding cell.
Officers requested emergency personnel to take her to a hospital for her severe intoxication.
Cunningham resisted EMTs trying to get her into an ambulance and had to have a spit hood put on her. While inside the ambulance she bit an EMT on the forearm so hard that it left marks.
She was charged with three counts of aggravated assault, three counts of simple assault, one count of resisting arrest and three related offenses, according to Lehigh Valley Live.
Cunningham was arraigned and is being held in Northampton County Prison in lieu of a $30,000 bail.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/20/woman-assaults-cops-emt-after-losing-money-to-pinball-machine/
Plastic surgeon accused of showing up drunk to operate
A Kentucky plastic surgeon was arrested Monday after allegedly showing up drunk to perform a surgery.
Dr. Theodore Gerstle, of Lexington Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, was scheduled to operate around noon on Monday at the Baptist Heath Lexington, but staff at the hospital were alerted that the physician was intoxicated, hospital spokesperson Ruth Ann Childers told the Lexington Herald Leader.
Gerstle left the hospital, voluntarily and on foot, after the chief medical officer confronted him, WKYT reported. Hospital staff then reportedly called the police. He was arrested a short time later when he was located not far from the hospital.
The surgeon was scheduled for one procedure Monday and had not started operating when he was confronted about his alleged drunken state, Childers told the news station.
“Patient safety is always our number one concern, every day,” Childers said of the incident. “We take these things very seriously and it will be thoroughly investigated.
Gerstle was charged with public intoxication and is being held at the Fayette County Jail, the Herald Leader reported, citing jail records. His staff privileges at the hospital — where he was not technically an employee — have been suspended pending the investigation.
According to the surgical practice’s website, Gerstle, from New York, is “the only Harvard-trained, board-certified plastic surgeon in Lexington,” and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy in West Point.
While it’s unclear what type of surgery Gerstle was scheduled to perform, the practice’s website states he specializes in migraine headaches and a variety of plastic surgery treatments.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/01/16/plastic-surgeon-accused-of-showing-up-drunk-to-operate/