Bainbridge blotter | DUI driver: ‘Tiny bit’ to drink

Published 11:35 am Friday, August 28, 2015

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

SATURDAY, AUG. 15

1:46 a.m. Police stopped a 21-year-old Gig Harbor woman in a 2012 Jeep Cherokee for speeding and failing to travel in her lane.

Police were notified of a possible DUI heading south on Highway 305. An officer got behind the woman and saw the vehicle nearly leave the road over the fog line twice. It went over the white fog lines three more times and also crossed the center yellow lines.

Police estimated the driver was going between 10 and 25 mph over the 50 mph speed limit.

Then, at the Highway 305 and High School Road intersection, the driver had to brake quickly to avoid rear-ending a vehicle ahead.

Police pulled over the driver into the McDonald’s parking lot. An officer noticed the odor of alcohol as soon as the driver opened her door.

She told police she had “a tiny bit” to drink, and said she almost went off the road because she was messing with her phone.

Police said her eyes were dilated and watery. She was given roadside sobriety tests and failed. She then declined to take a breath test and was arrested.

After speaking with an attorney on a cell phone, she agreed to take a breath test but said she would not answer questions.

Breath tests resulted in readings of .212 and .215. The woman was booked into Kitsap County Jail and bail was set at $5,000.