BRIDGTON – A Waterford woman was arrested on a drunken-driving charge Monday night after a hit-an-run accident in the parking lot of the Pleasant Mountain Inn on Route 302, police officer T.J. Reese said.
Dorothy Hatch, 50, of 423 Waterford Road, was charged with operating under the influence, leaving the scene of a property damage accident and failing to report a property damage accident by the quickest means, the officer said.
She was taken into custody at her home by Oxford County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Tim Ontengco and booked at the Oxford County Jail in Paris.
Reese said he responded to a report of a hit-and-run accident at 6:45 p.m. at the inn, where a man told him he saw a green Jeep Liberty hit the truck owned by his work partner, Michael Worsley, 55, of Fall River, Mass. The vehicle description, registration plate and other information from the scene led police to Hatch.
Ontengco checked Hatch’s home, across from Kimball’s Hardware on routes 35/37 in South Waterford, and found her locked in her green Jeep Liberty in the garage unresponsive, Reese said. After the sergeant called for an ambulance, he said, “she came out to speak with the deputy, and he smelled intoxicant on her breath and arrested her for OUI.”
When Reese went to the home later to get insurance and registration information, he said he noticed damage to the rear passenger side of the Jeep and plastic molding he found at the inn parking lot appeared to match the vehicle. He got a search warrant approved and came back to the house later and seized the vehicle, he said.
Damage to both vehicles was estimated at $2,000 total.
Hatch is scheduled to appear in Bridgton District Court on June 16.
Comments are no longer available on this story