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Wasted driver with child is in jail after crashing into, halving power pole

A 30-year-old drunken motorist driving nearly four times the legal limit was arrested after she lost control of her car on Hathaway Avenue, crashing it into a power pole and snapping it in half before the vehicle plowed into a residential chain-link fence. 

Jessica J. Guevara Reyes, whose young child was in the vehicle at the time of the Dec. 13 crash, was charged with aggravated DUI, child endangerment, criminal damage, resisting arrest and refusing to provide her name. She faces two years in jail and fines of up to $11,000. 

Damage to the power pole was estimated at $5,000, the cops said. 

A Maricopa Police Department probable cause statement said at about 6:37 p.m. officers arrived at the scene to find a Jeep Grand Cherokee. 

Reyes, who refused to give her name, told the officer she was “not right.” 

Officers asked her if she had consumed alcohol, and she said “yes.” 

“When speaking with the female subject, officers observed her to have slurred speech, bloodshot, watery eyes, [and the] odor of alcohol coming from her person,” the police report said, adding she was slow and lethargic in her movements. 

Police said she became “verbally aggressive” with officers. When officers attempted to handcuff her, she tensed up her arm muscles and pulled away from officers, they said. 

“While conducting a search incident to arrest, the female subject proceeded to thrash herself into officers and against the patrol vehicle, preventing officers from conducting an arrest and proper search,” the report said. 

All along, she refused to identify herself, officers said. 

After her arrest, she was transported to Exceptional Community Hospital in Maricopa where she was given a blood draw, which registered a .30 blood-alcohol level. In Arizona, a blood-alcohol level of .08 is the legal limit. 

“While in custody, Jessica made several threats of physical harm to officers and continued to act disorderly at the hospital,” officers said. 

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