Police: 1 Teacher Accused Of DUI, Other Urinated In Street

BRAZIL, Ind. -- Two teachers were arrested -- one on suspicion of drunken driving and the other on suspicion of public nudity -- after a wreck in Brazil this week, police said.

A Jeep driven by Melinda Ellis (pictured, left), 35, crashed into a ditch at the intersection of county roads 700 North and 200 West on Sunday evening, police said. Ellis and her passenger, Anita Miller (pictured, right), left the scene but eventually returned with at least one friend, police said.

Both Ellis and Miller failed field sobriety tests after police arrived at the site, and Ellis -- then a teacher in the White River Valley school district -- was arrested on charges of drunken driving, marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia, Clay County Sheriff Michael Heaton said.

Miller, a 43-year-old physical education teacher at North Clay Middle School in Brazil, was sitting in a friend's car during Ellis' arrest, and a deputy told her not to exit, according to police.

Miller disobeyed, Heaton said.

"She told the deputy she had to urinate. She began to urinate right in the middle of the roadway," Heaton told 6News' Derrik Thomas on Friday.

Miller was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, public nudity and public intoxication.

During the booking process at the Clay County jail, Miller became rowdy, shouting profanities at deputies, police said.

Police said they have surveillance video of the shouting at the jail, but the county prosecutor said the video would not be released to the news media.

Ellis resigned from her job, and Miller was suspended with pay pending an investigation, Thomas reported.

Both women spent a night in jail and were released on bond.

Ellis' blood-alcohol content was 0.12 percent, and Miller's was 0.17 percent, authorities said.