St. John Pleads No Contest to Drunk Driving
Juanita St. John, charged with embezzling $180,000 from a city task force she headed, pleaded no contest Friday to drunk driving and was sentenced to 10 days of community service at a homeless shelter. Municipal Court Judge Bruce Marrs also sentenced St. John to four years of unsupervised probation and fined her $1,175.
St. John, of San Marino, was ordered to attend a 90-day alcohol education program and her driver’s license was restricted for 90 days, allowing her to drive only to and from her community service job and the alcohol education program.
The former business partner of Mayor Tom Bradley was arrested by California Highway Patrol officers on the Pasadena Freeway shortly before midnight Dec. 29, 1990. St. John screeched to a halt at the scene of a traffic accident that was under investigation, police said. A patrolman walked over to ask why she had stopped, then arrested her for suspicion of drunk driving.
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