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When a Hughesville police officer arrived at 1 Main St. in the borough a little after 1 p.m. on July 2, he found Tiffany Lynn Manger sitting in the driver’s seat of a Mitsubishi with the car’s engine running, according to an affidavit. Her 2-year-old son was with her. As she was being questioned by the officer, the 23-year-old Maryland woman began “rambling on about multiple different things.” Suspecting she was impaired, the officer asked Manger to perform field sobriety tests.

“She had erratic behavior, consisting of involuntary body movements, (speaking incoherent) sentences, slurred speech and sweating profusely. She also had a lack of balance and was unable to understand the officer’s directives,” the affidavit stated. Manger admitted to taking valium earlier, police said. She told the officer she had driven from Scranton and was on her way to Maryland. There was no child’s safety seat in the car, the officer wrote in the affidavit. Manger said her son’s car seat was broken and that she did not have another, court records stated. A caseworker with the county’s Children and Youth Department was called to the scene to take protective custody of the toddler, police said. Manger, of Linthicum Heights, refused to submit a blood sample, the affidavit stated. She was arraigned before Solomon on charges of felony endangering the welfare of a child and DUI, and incarcerated in lieu of $25,000 bail.