Facebook Pics Earn College Student Alcohol Monitor

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jun 4, 2009 8:20PM

An underage girl who was involved in a drunk driving accident is back in hot water thanks to a picture on her Facebook page. Erika Scoliere, 20, of Campton Hills, was involved in a July 2007 accident that left motorcyclist Frank Ferraro dead; she later pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated drunken driving and reckless homicide. While she awaited trial, a judge allowed her to continue attending college at the University of Dayton in Ohio. Since then, she's been in trouble before, violating her bond when she failed to contact authorities on a regular basis which resulted in more frequent check-ins. But now she's been ordered to wear an alcohol monitor.

According to the Kane County Chronicle:

Circuit Judge Thomas Mueller ordered Wednesday that Scoliere now must wear the SCRAM bracelet after violating conditions of her bond. The SCRAM - which stands for Secure Continuous Alcohol Monitor - bracelet notifies authorities if it depicts alcohol consumption through perspiration. The bracelet takes a reading every hour...

Assistant State’s Attorney Steve Sims asked for the bracelet after police found photographs on the popular social networking Web site, Facebook.com. In court Wednesday, Mueller said the photos showed tequila and Scoliere “having a grand old time with her friends.”

One photo’s caption read, “Ten minutes later, Erika passed out in my bed. Ha. Ha. Ha.,” Mueller said.

Meanwhile, there's still action going on in the case against her stemming from the accident. Witnesses said that Scoliere didn't appear drunk at the time and she was not initially charged with drunk driving, but a later toxicology test showed that she had been drinking. Her attorneys, however, are now trying to have blood test evidence thrown out after it was revealed that it was accidentally destroyed shortly after the testing. [via WBBM]