Yesterday, Crossville Police Units were called to the Economy Inn at around 2:27 p.m. for a verbal argument where a female was described as trying to leave the area with children while intoxicated.

Sergeant Joshua Mangas arrived to the location and identified a female by the name of Ashley Spivey Joines who had a very strong smell of an intoxicating beverage coming off of her.

Joines started crying and was observed to have two different styles of shoes on along with slurred speech with emotional and occasional uncontrollable crying. She stated she had four drinks, however, she would contradict herself and say she had five.

At one point the woman had pulled on Sergeant Mangas’s vehicle door handle thinking it was her own car door.

She consented to a preliminary breath test which she failed. She would also make statements about the location of her vehicle that would later be proven false.

Joines attempted to leave with her children present while intoxicated but was stopped by her mother, father, and father-in-law prior to the officer’s arrival. She was deemed to be a danger to herself and others in her intoxicated position and therefore was placed in custody and transported to the Cumberland County Justice Center.

Joines was charged with public intoxication and her three children remained in her mother and father’s custody. A referral was completed with the Department of Child Services.