Miami Student

Issue date: 4/17/07 Section: Community

Female swerves on road, fails Breathalyzer test

Miami senior Rachel Funk was arrested for operating a vehicle while impaired at almost 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Oxford Police reported that Funk was swerving on the double yellow line in the 400 block of South Main Street. Officers noticed that she had a bracelet from a bar on her wrist.

When OPD asked Funk whether she had been drinking, she reportedly said that she had had a beer an hour before.

After failing field sobriety tests, Funk was Breathalyzed at the station. The screening revealed her blood alcohol content to be almost twice the legal limit.


MU male falls off Fiji roof fracturing wrist, ankle

Oxford Police were dispatched at 2:40 a.m. Sunday morning to the Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity house at 130 E. High St. on a report of a male falling from the roof of the house.

Officers reported seeing Miami first-year Adolph Lombardi lying on the ground surrounded by a group of onlookers when they arrived at the house.

Lombardi reportedly told police that a friend of his used him as leverage to stand up on the roof of the house where they were
hanging out.

When his friend leaned on him, Lombardi lost his balance and fell off the roof. He said that he landed on his feet, but that his ankle and wrist were bothering him.

Lombardi was transported to McCullough Hyde Hospital. His doctor told police that the first-year sustained a fractured wrist and ankle from the fall.


Police in disguise cite four 1st-years at Oxford Spirits

Thursday night, Oxford Police Department set up the cops-in-shops initiative against underage drinking by placing an officer in plain clothes in Oxford Spirits.

Four Miami students were arrested and cited for attempting to purchase alcohol underage.

First-year Shannon Swiderski was cited for attempting to purchase a bottle of 99 Blackberry and 99 Orange schnapps and for possessing an ID that was not her own from Illinois.

Miami first-year Ryan E. Long was also cited for attempting to purchase alcohol and possessing a fake license from Louisiana.

First-year John Breitbart was cited for attempting to buy several bottles of alcohol with a false ID from New York; he was found to be 18 years old.

First-year Nabih David was cited for attempting to purchase alcohol with a fake New York driver's license.

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