Boy Calls Police to Report Mother for Drunken Driving

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) -- The calls kept coming in to 911 -- from an 8-year-old boy who was riding in a car with his mother. He told operators that she wasn't "acting normal."

His mother was eventually arrested for investigation of drunken driving.

Authorities in Vancouver, Washington, say deputies caught up with Paulette Spears less than a minute after she pulled up to a fire station on Saturday to say she had a medical problem. They'd been tracking her down using the boy's cell phone calls, and his description of what he could see from the car.

At one point during the drive, police say she had taken the cell phone from the boy, told the dispatcher not to worry, and hung up. The boy called back, and again his mother cut the call off.

The boy and a 5-year-old child who was also in the car have been placed with an aunt.

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