LOGAN—A Smithfield woman pleaded guilty to criminal mischief (failing to remain at the scene of an accident) and driving under the influence of alcohol, both class-B misdemeanors, on Dec. 6 in 1st District Court.

Alexa Storer, 26, tested three times over the legal blood-alcohol limit. When Judge Thomas Willmore asked why she was so intoxicated, Storer replied that she was bored.

“What you did was terrible and very dangerous,” Willmore said.

Storer was sentenced to 180 days in jail and given credit for eight days already served.

Willmore started into discussing the terms of her probation when Storer appeared to not be listening to him. The judge then had her escorted out of the court room and held in a holding cell until he felt she was ready to listen to him. After going through a few more cases Willmore had Storer brought back in.

In addition to the jail sentence, Storer will have to pay a $1,000 fine plus a 90 percent surcharge and a $1,000 restitution to Utah State University. She will also have to participate in drug and alcohol counseling through Bear River Health and also in Bear River’s intensive outpatient program because of the amount of alcohol she had consumed at the time of her arrest. She was ordered to report to Cache County Jail on Dec. 11.

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