Driver Accused of Hitting Haven Home Faces OVI Charge (Updated)

The woman accused of driving is also suspected of driving while under the influence.

April Lineberry, 20, of Concord Township, was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle while under the influence, leaving after a crash, fleeing and eluding police, drug abuse, failing to control her car and not wearing a seat belt.

She pleaded not guilty to all of these charges Monday morning in .

Lineberry was arrested soon after crashing into the assisted living home. However, according to police, that was not the first or last crash she was involved in Sunday night.

First, she was involved in a 2-vehicle crash in the 8000 block of Mentor Avenue.

After that collision, she drove off the road, ran over a tree, crashed her Chevrolet pickup truck through a fence, hit a dumpster and knocked it into one of the room's at Haven Home.

Fortunately, nobody was in the bedroom that was hit, police said.

After that crash, Lineberry backed out of the building, drove through a backyard on Parker Drive, hit another tree and went back onto Mentor Avenue and proceeded east.

Police spotted her truck and signalled for her to stop. Lineberry eventually stopped in the 9000 block of Old Johnnycake Road.

Officers found a marijuana joint in her car when they searched it, Mentor Police Lt. Ken Zbiegien said. Blood and urine samples were also taken to see if Lineberry had any drugs in her system while driving. Results are pending.

The 12 people who live at Haven Homes had to be evacuated because the building is not habitable without repairs. Either family members picked them up or they were taken to other assisted living facilities.

Nobody was seriously hurt by the crashes, but one woman staying at Haven Homes was taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure.