story from 2006:
SHEFFIELD Kristina Fretter escaped a drunken driving charge in March when she agreed not to sue after a police officer Tasered her while she was handcuffed.
But she won’t have the same out with her two recent arrests.
In a little more than a month, Fretter has been stopped twice — charged with drunken driving after being stopped May 26 in Sheffield Lake and again in Sheffield, police said.
“Nobody Tasered her this time, but she did try to prod the officer into using the Taser on her,” Sheffield Mayor Darlene Ondercin said.
“The first time she was caught, everything was dismissed. We didn’t want to drop the charges, but it was what was best for the village. Now she has done it two more times. We’re just lucky she didn’t kill anyone.”
Patrolman Edward Long resigned after he Tasered the 32-year-old Sheffield Lake woman inside the Sheffield police station on Nov. 13, 2006.
The ordeal was captured on a video camera inside the station, and it showed Fretter being uncooperative during the booking process before Long pulled out the Taser and fired barbs at her, prompting her to fall over.
Ondercin said at the time that she was loath to see the charges dismissed against Fretter, but it was the best overall solution for the village to avoid a lawsuit.
Then on May 26, a Sheffield Lake police officer stopped Fretter on Irving Park Boulevard and arrested her on charges of drunken driving and driving on a suspended license after saying she failed several sobriety tests.
Sheffield Lake reports indicate Fretter refused to cooperate with officers when they tried to get her to perform a Breathalyzer test and again when they tried to take a booking photograph.
A valid Breathalyzer test was never done, police said.
A pretrial on that case is set for July 12.
Sunday, Sheffield police stopped her at 9 p.m. on Elmwood Drive after Patrolman Sean Palmer saw a car traveling without its headlights on.
Palmer’s report said Fretter was found to have a 0.238 blood-alcohol level — nearly three times the 0.08 percent at which the state considers a driver impaired.
Ondercin said Fretter tried to slip out of her handcuffs, the mayor said.
“I have seen the tape of when she was arrested, and she kept telling the officers that she had been brutalized once and that she wouldn’t let it happen again,” Ondercin said.
