DuBOIS – A Brockway woman accused of driving under the influence of drugs with two kids in the vehicle, was scheduled for a preliminary hearing Friday.
Breanna Joann Runyan, 25, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of children, DUI, and possession of drug paraphernalia after Sandy Township Police found her Jeep stuck in the mud off the Rails to Trails near Triangle Tech on Oct. 28.
She waived her right to a preliminary hearing, sending the case on to the county court. An additional charge of manufacture/delivery/possession with intent to deliver was withdrawn.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, when they arrived, two men were trying to move the vehicle. A woman later identified as Runyan, came out of the building with two small children. She explained that someone was chasing her, and she wrecked “trying to get away from them.”
The officer noted that the signs in the lot indicated that she had driven around the back side of the parking lot to the rear of the building. From there she drove to the end of a service/access road before trying to drive onto Rails to Trails where the vehicle became disabled.
Because she appeared to be under the influence, the officer had her perform several sobriety tests which she failed, police said. She was then placed under arrest.
One of the men who was trying to move the Jeep was Runyan’s father, and he offered to take the children.
Prior to her being placed in the police car, she was asked if she had anything that could hurt the officer in her pockets.
“She immediately reached into her pockets and began to jump around and was upset and began to cry. She hid her body in such a way to hide whatever was in her pockets from her father who was several feet behind her at the time,” it says in the criminal complaint.
The officer assured her she could put the items on the car’s hood, and he would put it in the vehicle without her father seeing it.
From her pockets, she reportedly pulled aluminum foil, a pick, a lighter and a bundle of stamp bags that appeared to contain heroin/fentanyl. In her vehicle they found a roll of large plastic bags and a bottle containing rubber bands, both of which are used for packaging drugs.
A blood test revealed she was under the influence of cloazapam, clonazepam, amphetamine, methamphetamine, fentanyl and norfentanyl, according to the report.
At the time of her hearing, her bail was lowered from $50,000 to $50,000, unsecured and she was released from the Clearfield County Jail.
