NEWTON FALLS, Ohio - A Newton Falls City council member has entered a "not guilty" plea during an appearance in Newton Falls Municipal court Wednesday following her OVI arrest.

Tesa Spletzer was handcuffed two separate times according to the officers who pulled her over for allegedly driving under the influence.

According to a police report, a Newton Falls officer stopped a GMC Terrain that he had seen driving on the wrong side of River Street shortly before 11 o’clock Saturday night.

The officer reported that the third ward councilwoman had slurred speech and “glassy” eyes.

The report says Spletzer admitted that she had been drinking and agreed to undergo a field sobriety test.

Spletzer was handcuffed and charged with OVI after the officer said she failed the test.

After being placed in a police cruiser, the report states that Spletzer spit at the two officer’s feet two times, calling them “piece of sh-ts!”

Police say she demanded that the officer remove the cuffs before she was inside the police station, saying she was being targeted because she is a city council member.

Officers didn’t uncuff Spletzer until she was inside police headquarters where she signed papers acknowledging that she refused to undergo a breathalyzer test, according to the police report.

Police say Spletzer insisted on walking home by herself, dropping “F-bombs” as she left the building according to one officer.

The police report says an officer insisted on driving Spletzer home for her own safety. When Spletzer resisted the officer’s efforts to place her in the cruiser, she was handcuffed again until she got into the car.

Spletzer was scheduled to answer charges of OVI and driving in improper lanes during a Thursday hearing in Newton Falls Municipal Court. However, she plead "not guilty" on Wednesday in a written plea.

When Spletzer defeated incumbent councilman Lyle Waddell by getting 67% of the vote last November, Waddell waged an unsuccessful legal challenge to her election.

The councilwoman went to court again in May to stop an attempt to impeach her after Newton Falls Police accused her of making “false alarms” when she called 9-1-1 to make a complaint against former village manager David Lynch.

Lynch resigned in July, and the council member who Spletzer claimed was behind the effort to impeach her, Sandra Braymaier, was removed from office in a recall election that same month.

In 2015, Spletzer was convicted of resisting arrest and falsification.

The false alarm charge filed this year was dismissed earlier this month.