WACO, Texas (KWTX) – A Waco mother was charged with drunken driving with a child as a passenger after she was involved in a drunken altercation at the Main Event and managers prohibited her from taking her two children, an arrest warrant states.
Cynthia Jane Saunders was arrested on Aug. 7 after driving drunk between her home and the main event, police wrote in the court document.
The arrest warrant states that Saunders took her adopted son to the main event and became involved in an altercation with the managers.
According to the document, the manager told police that Saunders arrived at the main event “very drunk” and “erratic.”
When a bartender asked Saunders for her identification at the bar, the woman became angry and left the bar to go to the restroom, but “urinated herself before entering the restroom,” the warrant states.
A manager tried to help Saunders, but the woman became “angry” and began screaming directly in the manager’s face, police reported.
In addition, Saunders allegedly “hit her urine-filled pants against the wall in anger,” police wrote in the arrest warrant.
Saunders left the store and ordered her adopted son and a friend of the boy to get into the car with her, the warrant states. The two children were also “too scared to get into the car with the woman.”
Managers intervened and prevented the children from leaving the bar with Saunders because they feared for the children’s safety due to Saunders’ “level of intoxication.”
Police accused Saunders of leaving the children “unsupervised at the facility.”
During the main event, one of the children told managers that Saunders was “drinking alcohol while she was riding in the car with him to the main event,” the warrant states.
Shortly after 8 p.m. that evening, a Waco police officer reported being “aggressively approached” by Saunders at an apartment complex and the woman asked him if he was looking for her son.
The officer told the woman he didn’t know what she was talking about and asked if her son was missing. Saunders told the officer the boy was missing but was “okay,” the warrant states.
“I noticed that (Saunders) was swaying heavily when standing, had a stuttering and unsteady gait, her speech was heavy and slurred, she had bloodshot eyes, heavy eyelids, and her body smelled strongly of alcoholic beverages,” the officer wrote in the arrest warrant.
“The defendants’ body movements were lively and their emotions ranged from excited, angry highs to depressive lows.”
While speaking with Saunders, the officer learned of the altercation at Main Event. The woman told the officer she had left her child at Main Event while she drove home to change her pants, but planned to return to the venue to pick up her son once she had removed her urine-filled clothing, the warrant states.
During her conversation with the officer, according to the arrest warrant, Saunders admitted that she drove with her son from her apartment to the main event, drove back from the main event to her apartment, and said she was about to drive back to the main event.
When asked if she had had anything to drink that evening, Saunders told the officer she had a glass of wine before going to the main event with her son.
Saunders also stated that she wrecked her car while backing out of the carport of her complex, the affidavit states. The manager of the complex told police that they intend to press charges against Saunders, the warrant states.
Saunders’ car “was severely damaged by impact with the carport of the apartment complex,” the document continues.
The woman was booked into the McLennan County Jail on August 7, but is no longer listed as an active inmate.
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