It's a few times. Just try and keep your head. Yeah. Sorry. >> No, you're good. You're good. It's all right. >> 214. >> I'm really >> 14. >> At 2 minutes to 7:00 on a Monday evening in April, a passerby flagged down a Yarmouth police officer on Route 28. There was a car, they said. It had hit a pole near the transmission shop, [music] and there was a woman still inside it. The officer found a silver Jeep driven into a street [music] sign. Half of it was in the parking lot. >> Hi. >> Hi. All right. >> This person is >> I was driving by. >> Uh-huh. >> And saw her like this. >> Yes. >> And she I don't know what's going on with her. >> Okay. >> She's really knowing where she's at. >> Okay. >> She said she's at >> Where is that? >> Ma'am, where are you? Here, I'll deal with her. Thank you. >> I think she's at >> Okay. >> Half was up on a dirt mound, and the woman in the driver's seat was trying to start it. The first thing the officer noticed, before anything was said, was a White Claw Seltzer sitting in the center console. Then the smell, a moderate odor of alcohol coming out of the car. Then she moved round to the driver's side, [music] and it got stronger. It was coming off the woman's breath. Her eyes were glassy and bloodshot. And when she spoke, the words came out thick and slurred, and she couldn't [music] finish a sentence. >> All right, well, let me get you out of the >> Here, why don't you step out of the vehicle, okay? >> Please. >> Okay. How are you? Did you just leave Gerardina's? >> Yes. >> Okay. How much did you have to drink at Gerardi's? >> Just a couple of drinks. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Just stay right here, all right? >> The officer asked if she'd been drinking. Two drinks, she said, at Giardino's, a restaurant up the road. She'd left about an hour ago, and that was the first answer that didn't work, because Giardino's is about a hundred yards from where that Jeep ended up. A hundred yards, the officer said so on camera, and told her she couldn't understand how the car had got into that parking lot. >> 2014 >> 14 >> Plate's going to be a mass PC 4 Sierra Foxtrot Golf 5 6. 4 SFG 5 6 >> Receives one, goes two. >> Single car. Are you the registered owner of the car? >> Yes. >> Okay, you got open containers all in your car. You just came from Giardino's, okay? So, I need you to be honest with me. You've had more than a couple drinks, probably. >> Mhm. >> So, the officer asked her some simple questions. Where did she live? Nantucket. Did she have a place here in town? Yes. Whereabouts? She couldn't say. >> [music] >> Where was she trying to get to? She named somewhere called North Troy. The officer wrote that it was hard to get information out of her, because she was speaking incoherently. She was asked if she needed medical attention. She said no. >> No. >> No? >> 2014 >> Okay. >> Received. >> When did you leave Gerardina's? >> Uh not that long ago. Like an hour ago. >> An hour ago? Cuz it's right there. >> No, it's not. Uh >> Are you on any other medications or >> No, I'm not. I'm not on any medications. >> Okay, so you you left about an hour ago. >> Yes. >> Okay, we're about 100 ft from Gerardina's. You have open containers in your car. Right? Okay, so you've obviously had a bit to drink. >> Then came the field sobriety tests. She had trouble understanding [music] the instructions. She was unbalanced, swaying side to side. The officer stopped the tests [music] after the second one. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, I'm going to have you do some field sobriety tests at this point. >> If that's something you think you can do. Okay, if you're if you're a little bit too intoxicated or you don't feel comfortable doing them. Okay, do you feel like you need to be checked out by rescue? >> No. >> No? Okay, well you just ran into a sign. You told the other guy, actually is he there? He didn't see it, but >> No. >> What's your first name? >> Leslie. >> Leslie? >> Not because she'd seen enough to make an arrest, though she had. She stopped them, in her own words, for the woman's safety. >> 2114, can you tell me what the car comes back to, please? >> 14, back comes back active on a Jeep Grand Cherokee, green color, to a Leslie Stout. Auto insurance check it. License active. >> Received, thank you. Are you alone or were you with anybody at Gerardina's? >> No. >> No. Okay. Where do you live? >> I live on Nantucket. >> You live on Nantucket? Okay, but you're here now. >> Yes, I have a house here. >> Okay, where's here? >> Uh Nantucket. I have a house in um Sorry. I have a house in North Troy. >> North Troy? >> Yes, North Troy. >> Where's that? Okay, let's step over here. Let's get a little bit further away from the road here. >> I'm sorry. >> No, you're good. You can stay right there. I just don't like my back to the road, so. North Troy? >> I know, I'm sorry. >> Troyo? >> No, not Troyo. >> Okay. >> No, no, I'm good. I have a house here. >> All right, you obviously speak English, right? You know Okay. All right. And you know numbers 1 through 100? >> Yes. >> Right? Okay. What's the highest level of education you've had? >> I have a master's degree. >> Okay. Um is there anything that would affect your ability to do some physical tests with balance? >> Probably not, no. >> Probably not? Yes or no? >> No. >> No, okay. Do you wear contacts? >> Yes. >> You do, okay. Do you wear glasses? You have contacts in right now? >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. So, we're going to run through a couple of tests, okay, to make sure that it's safe for you to drive, all right? >> Okay. At no point I don't want you to be unsafe or anything. Do you have diabetes or anything like that, any medical conditions that I need to know about? >> Okay. So, we're going to run through a couple of tests, okay? >> Yes. >> All right. So, the first one, I'm going to demonstrate them and then I'll make sure that you understand. Okay, so the first one you're just going to have your feet together, your hands by your side. Okay, and then we'll try and get your feet a little bit more together. Good, okay. So, it's just going to be an eye test. I just want you to follow the tip of my finger. Okay? All right. So, just do me a favor. Just touch the tip of my finger with one of your hands. Your choice. Just touch the tip of it. Yep. Good. Okay. So, just your eyes. Uh >> [laughter] >> I'm sorry. >> That's I know. I got you. I know. You're good. >> You said >> All right. Try and relax for me. Okay? >> I know I am relaxed, but you said >> Yeah. No, I got you. You did and you did it good. Okay. So, just with your eyes. All right? I'm just going to have you follow the tip of my finger. Okay? >> Okay. >> All right. Good. It's a few times. Just Try and keep your head. Yeah. >> Yeah. Sorry. >> No, you're good. You're good. It's all right. Are you ready? >> Okay. I'm ready. >> Yep. All right. Just with your eyes. Good. One more. Keep going. >> Freezing. >> I got you. Okay. >> I'm so cold. >> I got you. All right. Do you feel like you're steady enough in those shoes? >> Yeah, but I'm freezing. >> Yeah, I got you. Do you have a jacket? This will take a few more minutes, but I can get you a jacket if you want one. >> No. My jacket's >> I don't see a jacket. This will be quick. Okay? >> Okay. Well, I do have a >> All right. So, I'm going to demonstrate to test. Okay? All right. So, I'm going to have you stand like this with your right foot in front of your left and both your hands on your sides. Okay, that'll be the starting position for the test, okay? >> Wait, please like get me somewhere else. >> Let's why don't we do it this way? Nice and flat. Unless you have anything to add, sir Kulick. Yeah. >> Yeah, I'm freezing. >> All right, let's just stand right here. Let's just stand right here. >> Okay, yep. It doesn't matter. Stand right here. >> We want a nice flat surface for you. >> Wait, I'm so freezing. >> Okay. >> Okay. Okay. >> All right. So, I'm going to have you start like this, yeah? Okay, this is the starting position. Okay? >> Okay. >> So, you got to do it now. >> Oh, right now? >> Yep. If you can. So, just try and get a nice heel-to-toe. Nope. See, you don't have to walk yet. All right, so it's just >> No. Well, I can I like >> Yeah, start over. >> So, I just want you to stand like this. This is the beginning of the test. >> Okay. >> Okay, and then I'm going to explain the rest of it to you. >> But, I want to hear it like the whole test. >> I I'm going to tell you. >> You have to start like this. >> Well, why can't I just hear the whole test? >> Cuz this is part of the test. >> Oh, okay. >> It takes stages. >> Yep. So, you just stay still just just like this. >> Okay. Okay. I just like think this is >> Yep, just one foot in the other and just stay like that. Just in that one position without moving. Oop. Yep, I got you. We'll give it one more shot. Okay. >> I'm sorry. >> Oh, it's all right. >> Okay. >> All right, see how I am? Just like this. >> Oh. >> Yeah, you don't have to move yet. Yep, just like that. Good. Oh. >> Oh, sorry. >> All right. >> [ __ ] >> Hey, what's your name again? Leslie? >> Yeah. >> Oh my god. >> What's your name again? Leslie? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Leslie, look at me for a second. >> No. >> Leslie, look at me for a second. >> No, no, no. >> Leslie, look at me. This is really important. Really important. I need you to take this seriously, okay? >> I know it is. >> Okay, so try one more. >> You want to have trouble with that? >> Hi. I'm going to >> One more time with that. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> All right. Leslie, look at me. Okay, this is your last chance, okay? And then you're going to end up warm really quick, all right? Cuz it's about it's almost unsafe for you to do this at this point cuz you're all over the place, okay? >> I know. Okay. >> [snorts] >> All right. So, just like this. You pick a foot, put it in front, put your hands by your side. And then stay like that with your hands by your side. Hands down by your side. Okay. All right. Yeah. You're Yeah. Yep. Now, just relax. Just relax, okay? >> Okay, I'm I'm >> Back on this side. >> No, you're on this side. Please. >> Relax. >> I'm I'm relaxed. >> Okay. You're under arrest for operating under the influence of alcohol, okay? >> Okay. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. >> [ __ ] Oh. >> 2140. >> I'm really 14. >> She's going to be 71 OUI. I'll take a record, please. >> [ __ ] Sorry. I'm sorry. >> That's all right. You got anything on you that's going to stick or poke me? >> No, no. I don't have anything on me. >> Okay. Hang on a second. >> I have nothing on me. >> Okay. I'm just going to grab her uh phone. >> When she was told she was under arrest, officers went back to the Jeep to get her phone and her wallet for her. That is when the rest of it came out. Two more open cans in the driver's door, an open bottle of vodka in the back seat, and nips, the little airline bottles, in her purse. >> [snorts] >> She was taken to the station, booked, and read her rights. She refused the breathalyzer, and this is what turned a Cape Cod arrest into a national story. The woman in that Jeep was Leslie Woodson Snell, planning director for the town of Nantucket, 24 years in the island's planning and land use department, promoted to run it in 2023. On an island where a single planning decision can move a property's value by millions, she is the person who decides what gets built >> [music] >> and what doesn't. She is the one who tells other people no. She was arraigned in Barnstable District Court the next morning. A week later, she took a deal. The drunk driving charge was continued without a finding for 1 year, 45 days without her license, a driver alcohol education program. $600, no conviction if she stays clean. And the arrest itself wasn't public for more than a month. Two months after that plea, the commission that oversees her department met behind closed doors. When they came out, they renewed her contract unanimously. No formal raise, but a one-off payment just under $8,000, taking her total compensation past 200,000. [music] She still runs planning on Nantucket, and the body cam only came out in July. So, here is the question. >> [music] >> If you'd crashed a hundred yards from the bar, would your employer have met behind closed doors?