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Dashcam video shows arrest of intoxicated Portage County judge

Doherty has been a Portage County Judge since 2015.

Roles were reversed, Sunday, as Portage County Judge Becky Doherty was arrested for operating a vehicle while impaired(OVI).

According to the Record -Courier, Ms. Doherty was found after she drove an SUV off the side of the road an into a ditch. The accident occurred at Route 43 around 9:16 p.m.

“I am absolutely out of my mind. I am so intoxicated,” Doherty told police at the scene.

The Courier reports that the SUV belonged to an Akron woman, however, Doherty was the only person inside the vehicle at the time of the crash.  

She is now facing charges for operating a vehicle while impaired (OVI).

Doherty has been a Portage County Judge since 2015.

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