Iowa City Police: Woman Took Man's Car, Became Intoxicated, Crashed into Several Parked Cars

A Cedar Rapids woman is facing misdemeanor charges after taking a man's Honda without his permission and later crashing it into several parked cars.

On Saturday morning at 7:11 a.m., Iowa City Police received a call about a stolen vehicle. The complainant's roommate said he had seen two women taking the man's car keys without his permission while he was asleep. That vehicle was later recovered after a hit and run accident involving several parked vehicles.

According to criminal complaints, police found the vehicle at the 900 block of Lafayette Street. April Marie Spaulding, 18, of Cedar Raids was identified as the driver of the vehicle. She allegedly had droopy eyes, slurred speech, and struggled to answer the officer's questions according to the complaint. Spaulding allegedly told the officers she had taken non-prescription Xanax.

Spaulding was later identified by the man's roommate as one of the two women who had left with the man's keys. She was booked into the Johnson County Jail at 10:30 a.m. according to online jail records and charged with operating a vehicle without consent, an aggravated misdemeanor, and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a serious misdemeanor.