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The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating City Councilwoman Janis Fullilove for possibly falsifying information on a driver's license application.
THP spokesman Mike Browning said investigators are looking into whether she broke the law when she applied for a duplicate after her license was confiscated when she refused a DUI test in DeSoto County.
Fullilove did not mention the DUI charge when she applied for the duplicate, but instead said she had lost her original.
Browning said such a violation was punishable by up to 11months and 29 days in jail, fines up to $2,500 and license suspension for up to two years.
DeSoto County Sheriff Bill Rasco said deputies seized Fullilove's license on March 21 when she refused a test after officials pulled her over. She spent several hours in jail in DeSoto County.
"After she got out of jail she went (to Memphis) and asked for a lost license," said Rasco. She applied for the duplicate on March 25.
Mississippi law says failure to submit to the test results in a license suspension of 90 days for a first offense. The license will be suspended even if the suspect is later found not guilty. Any driver failing to submit to a requested test is charged with DUI.
Fullilove was driving again May 2 when she was involved in a late-night car crash in Tunica County that injured a girl. Fullilove said she had been gambling at Fitzgeralds casino in Tunica.
On Monday, Memphis blogger Thaddeus Matthews wrote that Fullilove told him she had drunk two glasses of wine that night.
Fullilove will not be charged in that crash. Mississippi Highway Patrol officials said they had no reason to ask her to take a DUI test that night or take her blood at the hospital.
Rasco said MHP officials may not yet have known about the March incident when they investigated the May 2 crash, although he said he sent Fullilove's license and ticket to Jackson, Miss., for processing.
"I don't know how long it takes for it to get to the state office," Rasco said.
Fullilove pleaded guilty in 1999 to drunken driving along a popular route to and from Tunica after being pulled over by police responding to a call from a concerned motorist.
The local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving said it will monitor Fullilove closely.
"We hope that she would be held accountable for her actions," said Dell Russell of MADD, whose husband, a Memphis firefighter, was killed by a drunken driver almost 13 years ago. "She represents the citizens and they should be outraged."
Fullilove, elected in October 2007 as one of three council members representing Super District 8, said Monday that she will be seeking therapy for an undisclosed medical problem. She said she did not have drinking or gambling problems.
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