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No surprises here. Let me do the math. Mother 22, Daughter 7. How old was mother when she got knocked up? 14 probably? Given this, and her most recent arrest, I think it'll do her, her daughter and society some good if they just keep the mother in jail.

Cops: Three Jersey City people arrested after car with phony plates stopped

By Sarah Rahman/The Jersey Journal
January 27, 2010, 6:00AM

Three Jersey City residents were arrested in Bayonne Sunday after the driver was caught driving while intoxicated with her 7-year-old daughter in the backseat.

Officers conducting random license plate checks on 55th Street and Avenue B stopped Shannon Daniels, 22, of Duncan Avenue in Jersey City, at 11:44 p.m. after determining that her 1991 silver Mazda MPV had fictitious plates, according to Police Sgt. Brian Boyle.

After approaching the driver, officers noticed a strong odor of alcohol emanating from Daniels' breath and also noticed three other passengers in the car - 31-year-old Joseph Daniel, of Arlington Avenue, in the backseat, Sharmine Smith, 28, of Ocean Avenue, in the passenger seat and Daniels' 7-year-old daughter seated next to Daniel without a child restraint seat.

Officers ordered Daniels out of the car, at which point Daniel began using profanity and screamed loudly, reports said. When officers told Daniel to calm down, she began to scream louder, and Daniels' daughter began to cry, reports said.

Daniels and Daniel stepped out of the car, and officers noticed that Daniels could not stand up straight without holding onto the car, according to Boyle. Daniels told officers she had three shots of Hennessey and two beers, reports said. She also did poorly on her psychomotor tests and was placed under arrest.

Officers also detected a strong odor of alcohol emanating from Daniel's breath, who clasped his hands together in front of his body when officers told him he was under arrest, reports said.

They struggled to get his hands behind his back, said Boyle, and had to pepper spray his face, to cuff him. After being handcuffed, Daniel also spit on one of the officers, said police.

Daniel was charged with disorderly conduct, aggravated assault with bodily fluid and resisting arrest. His bail was set at $15,000 and was sent to Central Judicial Processing, according to Boyle.

Charged with driving while intoxicated, Daniels' car was impounded and her daughter was subsequently picked up by her father, a Jersey City resident, reports said.

She was also issued a summons for fictitious plates, uninsured vehicle, failure to wear a seatbelt, no front license plates, driving with a suspended license, an uninspected car, failure to have a child restraint seat and failure to show a license. Her bail was set at $250, and she was sent to the Hudson County Jail, reports said.

Smith, who had a warrant out of Jersey City in the amount of $350, was also sent to the Hudson County Jail.