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DUI Murder Suspect Goes to Bar Instead of Jail
AP via YellowBrix June 24, 2008
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A woman charged in the drunken-driving death of her son
went to a bar after his funeral instead of re****ting back to jail, state
police said.
A judge had given Erin Howard, 26, of Corry, permission to leave the Erie
County Prison for 24 hours to attend her son’s funeral in Ohio, with
orders to return to the lockup by 3 p.m. Saturday.
Instead, Howard went to a bar in Hamilton, Ohio, about a mile from the
church where the funeral for 6-year-old Samuel Carpenter was held, police
said.
Calls to Howard’s public defender went unanswered after business hours
Monday.
Howard had been in prison in lieu of $75,000 bail on charges that she was
driving drunk when she crashed into a creek bank near Corry, killing
Samuel on June 14 — her 26th birthday.
Pennsylvania police found out Sunday morning that Howard had been
arrested in Ohio after her son’s father allegedly tipped off authorities
to her whereabouts. She was being held in Ohio awaiting extradition to
Erie.
Howard has now been charged with escape in addition to involuntary
manslaughter, drunken driving, child endangerment and other charges
related to the crash.
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If guilty, she should be locked up forever but she'll get off with a fine
like always happens in cases like this. America talks about "save the
children" but when a criminal driver kills a kid, everybody says "hey - i
drive like that so hell with the kid."
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