Deputies in Montgomery County arrested a woman Sunday morning who refused to leave a residence. The Sheriff’s Department says Shelby J. Olivarez, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 8:36-a.m. for Public Intoxication.

Officials say the woman was taken into custody after they received a report she would not leave a residence on East Grimes Street. When authorities arrived, they found Olivarez on the sidewalk in front of the residence and the property owner was in the yard. The owner said he advised Olivarez to leave, but she refused to do so.

The woman was allegedly impaired, with slurred speech and stumbling and swaying. She was offered a Preliminary Breath Test (PBT), but refused and was taken into custody without further incident. She was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $300 bond.

Law enforcement agencies will be heavily patrolling the roads May 18th through the 31st (the days leading up to, and after, the Memorial Day weekend). During their patrols, officers will be looking to enforce the seat belt law, in hopes of reducing the number of crash fatalities.

Crash data shows that passenger vehicle occupants are buckling up more during the day than at nighttime. The two-week long law enforcement mobilization across Iowa and the rest of the nation, is created to heighten seat belt enforcement 24/7, and will focus enforcement efforts, especially between the nighttime hours of 6-p.m. and 6-a.m., due to the significant number of violators and fatal crashes during this time.

Over the last ten years, Iowa has averaged 5.3 traffic fatalities during the three-day Memorial Day weekend. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration nearly half of the 21,132 passenger vehicle occupants who were killed on our nation’s roadways in 2013 were not wearing seat belts. That number jumped to 67 percent for males aged 13 – 15.

Buckling up in the back seat is just as important. Half of all front-seat occupants killed in crashes in 2012 were unrestrained but 61 percent of those killed in back seats were unrestrained. Keep in mind that those fatalities aren’t just statistics; they are someone’s family member or friend.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau want you to remember that the single most effective way to reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes is to wear a seat belt every day, every trip.

A traffic stop in Red Oak early this (Sunday) morning, resulted in an arrest. Red Oak Police report 43-year old Karen Patrice Rebitzke, from Oklahoma, was arrested in the 600 block of east Reed Street at around 2:35-a.m.  The woman was charged with OWI/1st offense and booked into the Montgomery County Jail, where her bond was set at $1,000.