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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Lindenwood Coach Drove Wrong Way on I-70 Before Assaulting Officers, Police Say

Kyle Friesenhahn has been placed on unpaid leave from his diving coach position until the case is settled; he also lost a part-time coaching job with Fort Zumwalt high schools.

A Lindenwood University diving coach was stopped for driving the wrong way on Interstate 70 and brought into custody before he spit at and attempted to assault officers, St. Peters Police said. Patch reported earlier that Kyle Friesenhahn, 25, of the 1000 block of Pine Street in St. Charles, was charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer. Officer Melissa Doss, spokesperson for St. Peters Police, said the department requested the St. Charles County Prosecutor’s Office to file driving while intoxicated charges against Friesenhahn. Officers stopped Friesenhahn, Lindenwood’s head diving coach, for driving westbound in the eastbound lanes on I-70 near Mid Rivers Mall on Feb. 2, Doss said. Friesenhahn was taken to the St. Peters Justice …

Monday, June 11, 2012

St. Peters Woman Charged with Assault in Four-Car Crash

The woman was driving under the influence of alcohol in the wrong-way collision, according to court documents.

A woman who caused a four-car accident in March by driving the wrong way on St. Peters Parkway was charged with three counts of second-degree assault. According to court documents, Melinda McCann, 43, of St. Peters, was driving under the influence of alcohol when she turned east on the westbound lanes of North St. Peters Parkway just north of Jungermann Road at 12:25 a.m. March 9. McCann, driving a Chevrolet Silverado, hit a Dodge Nitro in a head-on collision. The woman driving the Nitro was seriously injured, with multiple fractures, bruised lungs and respiratory failure that required several surgeries, St. Peters Police said in a report. One vehicle, an Acura driven by a man, struck the Nitro from behind after the first collision. McCann…

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