Columbus Mayor’s Wife Guilty of Drunk Driving
The wife of Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman pleaded guilty to being drunk when she ran into a parked pickup truck with her car in October, and a judge sentenced her to three days in jail.
“I made a mistake, I’ve accepted the consequences and I want to move on with my life. That’s all,” Frankie Coleman said in Franklin County Municipal Court.
Attorneys for Coleman, 55, had fought the charge, which carries mandatory jail time and was based on a breath test that found she had a blood-alcohol level of 0.271 -- more than three times the legal limit.
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