UPDATE: Jessica L. Mill pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and was sentenced Dec. 4, 2018, in Clark County Superior Court to 120 days in jail. She also pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of drugs and was sentenced to 364 days, with all but a day suspended, court records show.
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Detectives say a Vancouver woman was under the influence of multiple illicit drugs when she allegedly ran over her passenger, causing the woman to suffer a miscarriage.
Jessica L. Mill, 30, was summoned Tuesday to Clark County Superior Court to face a charge of vehicular assault in the February 2017 incident.
The victim, Jameshia Carter, suffered a fractured left rib, scrapes to her left hip and right knee, and bruising to her left knee. She was about two months pregnant and suffered a miscarriage, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed in the case.
Shortly before 2 a.m. Feb. 12, Mill drove a 1997 Plymouth Neon with Carter as the passenger to Muchas Gracias at 6203 N.E. Highway 99. The two ordered food at the drive-thru and then parked in the business’s north lot, the affidavit states.
Mill got out, walked over to the front passenger’s side door and began arguing with Carter. She grabbed Carter’s purse, and they began to wrestle over it. The passenger’s side window broke in the tussle, court records said.
Mill then climbed into the passenger’s side and over to the driver’s seat. Carter said she thought Mill was going to leave without her so she started to get back into the car. But before she was fully in, Mill backed up the car, striking Carter with the open passenger’s side door. Carter fell to the ground, and the right front tire ran over the left side of her body, according to the court document.
Mill continued to back up onto the sidewalk along the north side of the restaurant, causing the open passenger’s side door to strike the building and fold forward. She then drove forward through the parking lot, over a curb and hit a fence, the affidavit said.
Toxicology testing of Mill’s blood, which was taken about four hours after the incident, found 0.021 mg/L of amphetamine, 0.16 mg/L of methamphetamine, 12 ng/mL of carboxy-THC — the primary metabolite of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana — and 0.083 mg/L Alprazolam, an anti-anxiety drug, in her system.
During her hearing, Mill was granted supervised release. She told the court that she’s been clean and sober, and undergoing substance abuse and mental health treatment.
Mill will be arraigned Jan. 19.
