MASON CITY – A Plymouth woman who was discovered in her car in a ditch outside Mason City last October and charged with drunk driving has pled guilty and is in jail.
Alexis Elizabeth Ballantyne, age 21, entered a guilty plea in April to first offense drunk driving. She was sentenced to 2 days in jail, given a year of probation, and ordered to pay $1,935.50 in fines and court fees.
At about 1:30 AM on October 4, 2014, a Cerro Gordo deputy was sent to 12th Street NE and Florida Avenue to investigate a car that was in the ditch. An ambulance was summoned to come to that location, before the deputy alerted that the female driver, Ballantyne, was at the scene and uninjured. The car appeared, at first, to have rolled over, but then it was determined that it had only driven straight into the ditch. After an investigation, the officer surmised that Ballantyne was intoxicated and arrested her for drunk driving.
The arresting officer conducted a breath alcohol test at the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Office on a female subject at 2:26 AM, and the two results were 0.190 and 0.188. The legal limit is 0.08.
Ballantyne is a bank teller at NSB Bank and a student in the criminal justice program at NIACC, she claims via social media. In August of 2014, she pled guilty to second offense possession of alcohol under the legal age.
SUBJECT IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
