May 14, 2008
BY KRISTEN SCHORSCH
SouthtownStar
Judge in crash was driving drunk: cops
A Cook County judge was driving drunk when she slammed into the back of a minivan carrying five people last week in Tinley Park, police said Tuesday.
Sheila McGinnis, 47, of Chicago's Beverly neighborhood, was charged with drunken driving, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident and failure to provide proof of insurance, according to a police report obtained Tuesday. No one was injured in the crash, police said.
McGinnis is set to appear June 6 at the county courthouse in Bridgeview, where she is assigned as a judge.
The incident happened at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the southbound lanes of Harlem at 182nd Street, police said.
McGinnis, driving her 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer, was weaving from lane to lane, flashing her brights, honking the horn and striking the curb south of 171st Street when she rear-ended a 2005 Chevrolet Uplander waiting at a red light, police said. She refused sobriety tests and would not answer questions, police said.
McGinnis told a reporter she had no comment.
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