911 tapes: Oxford teen reports mom's alleged drunken driving at dad's request

OXFORD -- An Oxford teenager who called 911 earlier this month from inside a car with her mom, who police say was driving drunk at the time, told a dispatcher that her dad asked her to call authorities, according to a recording of the 911 call released by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office on Friday.

The 15-year-old's mother, identified by police as Lori Anne Sedlacek Becicka, can be heard in the background during the 911 call making inaudible comments and demanding to know who her daughter was calling.

“Who are you talking to?” the woman is heard saying on the 911 tapes.

“Um, I was talking to 911 because dad said to call them,” the girl told her mother, according to the recording.

Becicka was driving along 250

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Street on her way to an address near Oxford at 8:10 p.m. March 15, according to the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, when her concerned daughter called.

“Are you scared?” a 911 dispatcher asked the teen, who could be heard telling her mom to “stop.”

“You can leave the line open, hon, if you don't want to talk on the phone,” the dispatcher said. “If you want to act like your hanging it up, you can just leave it open and I can follow you.”

Becicka eventually pulled her car into Don Hummer Trucking, 1486 Highway 6 NW in Oxford, where a sheriff's deputy was waiting, according to a criminal complaint.

The woman got out of the vehicle and walked over to the squad car to talk to the deputy, the complaint states. She reportedly smelled of alcohol, her speech was slurred, her eyes were bloodshot and water and her balance was poor.

Becicka admitted to drinking, and her blood alcohol content tested at .235 – nearly three times the legal limit to drive, the deputy reported. The teenager said her mom had been drinking while driving with her in the car, and a deputy found open alcohol containers in the vehicle, according to the complaint.

Becicka faces charges of endangerment without injury, an aggravated misdemeanor, and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

When the dispatcher hung up with the teenager, she praised her for making the call.

“You did a good job, OK?” the dispatcher said.