DHHS supervisor was on call when arrested for drunk driving, assaulting officer
TRAVERSE CITY – A Michigan Children’s Protective Services supervisor was on-call Saturday when she was arrested for drunk driving and assaulting a police officer.
Court records show Paula Lipinski, 38, was charged Tuesday in Grand Traverse County District Court with one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, one count of resisting arrest and one count of assaulting an officer.
A security guard from a bar in downtown Traverse City called police at 11:37 p.m. Saturday when Lipinski left the bar and tried to drive away, Traverse City Police Chief Jeffrey O'Brien said Thursday. Police stopped her in the parking lot and she attempted to flee on foot. When officers caught up to her to arrest her, she repeatedly kicked one officer in the shin, O'Brien said.
A schedule posting available to CPS employees in that office and obtained by the State Journal shows Lipinski was the supervisor assigned to be on-call from 5 p.m. Friday through 8 a.m. Monday. A Michigan Department of Health & Human Services spokesman confirmed Lipinski is a CPS supervisor, but declined further comment because an internal investigation is pending.
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