Kalispell woman denies drunken crash
Megan Strickland | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years, 10 months AGO
A Kalispell woman has denied driving drunk and crashing into another vehicle while her young son was a passenger.
Cherie Christine Fieldhouse pleaded not guilty to felony criminal endangerment on Thursday before Flathead District Court David Ortley.
Ortley ordered that Fieldhouse, 53, participate in random urinalysis screening while she is out of jail awaiting trial.
Fieldhouse’s attorney said that she did not have the money to participate in other forms of alcohol monitoring, but that she had not had any prior alcohol-related driving offenses. The attorney said Fieldhouse had not had any alcohol since the day of the incident in question.
On Feb. 9, Fieldhouse allegedly told police responding to a crash that she drank alcohol, went to pick up her 8-year-old son and then crashed her pickup into a parked sport utility vehicle.
A jury trial was tentatively set for Aug. 8.
Reporter Megan Strickland can be reached at 758-4459 or mstrickland@dailyinterlake.com.
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