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Prescious Kirby, 21, smelled of alcohol after her 2013 Ford Fiesta severed the pole at North 8th Street and Prescott Avenue at its base just before 2 a.m. Friday, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said.
While being interviewed by officers, Kirby “repeatedly asked if she could just drive home,” he said.
They also found a bag of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in her car, the sergeant said.
After failing field sobriety exams, Kirby was taken to police headquarters, where she refused to take a breath test, Hoogmoed said.
Kirby – a former National Honor Society student studying communications and media at Caldwell University -- was eventually released on DWI and drug-related charges and received several traffic summonses, the sergeant said.
The Fiesta was towed and the street was shut down so the pole could be replaced, he said.
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