<p>A Carrollton, Ga., daycare center owner was charged with driving drunk while at the wheel of a van with about a dozen children aboard, authorities said.</p><p>Carroll County deputies arrested Kathy Johnson, 50, Tuesday afternoon after she drove into the parking lot of the Starting Block Learning Center, Chief Deputy Brad Robinson said.</p><p>Additional charges could be filed once an investigation is complete, he said.</p><p>Robinson said deputies were outside Johnson's daycare center investigating an unrelated domestic incident when Johnson arrived. She approached the deputies "in a totally agitated manner," and they smelled alcohol on her breath, Robinson said.</p><p>Johnson's blood alcohol level was .15, nearly double the legal threshold for a DUI, he said.</p><p>Carrollton Police Capt. Daryl Diamond said this is Johnson's fourth arrest on DUI charges. She was convicted of DUI's in 1992 and 1993, and a 2005 DUI charge is still pending, he said.</p><p>If Johnson is convicted _ and depending on the results of a state probe _ she and her business could face state sanctions ranging from a simple fine to the revocation of the center's license, said Todd Blandin, spokesman for the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning.</p><p>Blandin said the center has been licensed with the state since 1985.</p><p>Two complaints against the center have been filed with the state in just the last year, according to the department's Web site. The complaints describe employees taking children off the premises without parental permission and letting older children go to the store unescorted.</p><p>State inspection records also cite dangerous chemicals stored in areas easily reached by children and problems with teachers leaving classes unsupervised.</p><p>A man who answered the phone at the center Wednesday said he had no comment. He declined to provide anyone else who could comment and hung up the phone.</p><p>Carrollton is about 42 miles west of Atlanta.</p>
