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Nan Johnston’s DWI hearing reset for March

Ivan Foley by Ivan Foley
January 22, 2021
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The first court hearing in the DWI case of Parkville Mayor Nan Johnston has been rescheduled for March.

A hearing was on the docket for last Wednesday, Jan. 13 in the courtroom of Judge Dennis Eckold. But according to court records, Johnston’s attorney, Mark Ferguson, requested a rescheduling of the hearing. A new date of March 10 at 9 a.m. has been set.

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Johnston, age 60, was arrested early Saturday morning, Sept. 26, for allegedly driving while intoxicated.

The arresting deputy from the Platte County Sheriff’s Department observed a vehicle being driven by Johnston southbound on Hwy. 9 in the area of Eastside Drive, which is a short distance north of Hwy. 45 near the edge of the Parkville city limits. The deputy was also southbound on Hwy. 9.

According to the sheriff’s department, after noting erratic driving that authorities say included crossing the center line, the deputy conducted a traffic stop at Eastside Drive around 1:18 a.m.

Authorities say after sobriety testing conducted roadside in which Johnston’s blood alcohol content (BAC) measured .110 on a portable breath test, she was arrested for DWI at 1:34 a.m.

The mayor was taken to the Platte County Jail for booking.

In all DWI cases, the portable breath test number is not admissible in court. The court-admissible test is always conducted on what is known as a DMT, a high tech breath testing machine, at the jail.

Johnston’s blood alcohol content test taken at the jail at 2:23 a.m., a little more than an hour after the car stop, showed Johnston’s BAC at .098.

In Missouri, the legal limit for driving is .080.

Johnston, who was found by the Missouri Ethics Commission last March to have committed four campaign finance reporting violations, is again under investigation by the MEC. The new investigation, as reported in last week’s Landmark, deals with fees for legal services that allegedly went unreported on Johnston’s campaign finance reports.

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Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley is owner/editor/publisher of the Platte County Landmark. Foley has been on the news beat in Platte County with The Landmark for 38 years, specializing in local government issues and accountability journalism. He has penned multiple award-winning investigative pieces. He provides weekly observations and editorial commentary in his Between the Lines column and serves as host of Landmark Live, a light-hearted videocast featuring newsmakers and events in the Northland. During his time at the helm of The Landmark, the newspaper has been awarded on multiple occasions for General Excellence in the Missouri Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. In 2016, Foley won the Tom and Pat Gish Award, a national honor given by the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky for displaying courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. A big fan of the Chiefs and Royals, Foley resides in Platte County not far from KCI Airport.

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