He once called 88 times in a two-hour period. He repeatedly drove past her house in his black BMW. He sent rambling emails and countless text messages.A Fort Wayne morning TV news anchor pleaded guilty this week to a drunken-driving charge.
Mary Collins Frank of WPTA-TV was given a suspended jail sentence of 60 days and her license was suspended for 90 days, according to court records.
She was arrested at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 31 after police received a call about someone driving an SUV erratically near Getz Road and West Jefferson Boulevard.
Police measured her blood-alcohol level between 0.13 percent and 0.15 percent, nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent, according to a police report.
Frank told police she hadn’t consumed alcohol, giving different explanations for the blood-alcohol level.
She pleaded guilty Tuesday in Allen Superior Court’s Misdemeanor and Traffic Court to a single charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent to 0.14 percent, a Class C misdemeanor, court records said.
Additional charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a Class A misdemeanor, and disregarding an automated traffic signal, a Class C misdemeanor, were dismissed.
