Bainbridge blotter | DUI driver on Highway 305

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

THURSDAY, AUG. 13

1 p.m. A 19-year-old Bainbridge woman in a 2012 Nissan was turning left from Winslow Way onto Olympic Drive when a 35-year-old woman in a 2010 Honda started to make a turn but was unable to stop before hitting the driver in the Nissan.

9:28 p.m. A 44-year-old Bainbridge woman was arrested for DUI.

Police were called to the parking lot at the Island Village Shopping Center, where a woman was getting a ride home from coworkers after an office party. The woman told her coworkers she was in a domestic violence situation, and the coworkers did not want to take her home, so they called police.

When police arrived the woman did not want to talk to them.

Her coworkers decided to take her out to eat and make sure she was sober before she tried to drive home.

About 90 minutes later, police were notified of a possible DUI driver and the description of the vehicle matched the one of the woman police had encountered earlier.

An officer saw the vehicle with no one in it parked at a gas pump at the Masi Shop on Highway 305. As police were turning around, the woman got in the car and drove away.

Police followed the driver, who was swerving, and stopped her near the casino.

When asked if she had too much to drink, she said, “I’m OK.”

Police asked for her license and noticed what appeared to be an open bottle of beer in a passenger seat pocket.

The woman failed field sobriety tests and was arrested. Breath tests had results of .228 and .224.

The woman was allowed to call her husband after completing paperwork and an officer overheard her tell her husband, “I’m just gonna cut my throat. That’s what I’m gonna do.”

She was booked and jail staff were notified of the conversation.

Bail was set at $5,000.