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The legislator's roadside balance test didn't go well on a wintry night. (Photos: Livonia Police Department video)
First-term state House member Mary Cavanagh awaits sentencing May 6 after pleading guilty this week to drunken driving in Livonia.
The Detroit News has this update:
The 30-year-old Redford Democrat was initially charged under the state's super drunk law, used when an individual's blood alcohol content is above 0.17. Her plea [Wednesday] to a lesser operating while intoxicated charge depends on the lawmaker being accepted into sobriety court and complying with the terms of sobriety court. ...
Her February arrest occurred shortly before 3 a.m. Feb. 25 after she was stopped near Interstate 96 and Middlebelt Road. According to the police report, officers had been following her from Merriman Road to Schoolcraft Road to I-96 to Middlebelt, and observed her driving with two flat tires on the driver's side. ...
She told officers she'd had "two glasses of red wine," but then failed two field sobriety tests and blew a 0.176 on her preliminary breath test. At the jail, Cavanagh blew 0.2 and 0.19 on subsequent breath tests.
Her bad night in February.
Her arrest was the representative's second in Livonia there on that charge. The first was in 2015, and she served a year of probation.
Cavanagh is running for a state Senate seat this year. Her father, Phil Cavanagh, was a state representative from 2011-15. Her grandfather, Jerome Cavanagh, was Detroit mayor from 1962-70.
Earlier:
Bodycam footage of Michigan Rep. Mary Cavanagh's suspected OWI arrest released
