A 53-year-old Whitmore Lake woman who led police on a low-speed chase and verbally assaulted officers after being arrested was recently arraigned on ‘super drunk’ driving charges and other felonies.

Laura Misko

Laura Misko was formally charged May 23 and will appear in court for a preliminary hearing next Tuesday. She is free on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond, according to court records.

Officers were called to Polly Market, 9589 Main St. in Whitmore Lake, at 8:32 p.m. on Feb. 15 after employees called about a customer who had nearly hit the building when arriving and was intoxicated in the store, according to Northfield Township police Lt. Tim Greene.

Misko was trying to pull out of the grocery store’s parking lot when officers arrived and turned on the lights of the patrol car to pull her over. She ignored police and pulled out onto northbound Main Street, Greene said.

Misko drove at speeds between 11-18 mph for a quarter of a mile before pulling over for officers, according to police.

The woman denied drinking, though failed subsequent field sobriety tests and had a preliminary blood test of .26, which put her in the range of being prosecuted under Michigan’s ‘super-drunk’ law.

The woman became verbally assaultive when arrested and taken into custody.

“She told the officer several times he was a dead man,” Greene said.

The woman also repeatedly swore at the officer, saying he didn’t know who he was messing with.

She admitted to having used Xanax earlier in the day and so was taken to the University of Michigan Hospital for a blood draw.

At the hospital, the woman somehow slipped her wrists out of the handcuffs, blew her nose on a wadded up piece of paper and threw it at the officer, Greene said.

It took authorities several weeks to test the blood, which is why Misko wasn’t charged until May.

She faces a count possession of analogues (prescription drugs), two counts of resisting, assaulting and obstructing a police officer and operating with a blood alcohol content of .17 or more.

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