WINONA, Minn. – A Goodview woman was stopped by police for a bad headlight but it turned out she also was drunk, police said. Booked for suspicion of driving while impaired was Erin Elizabeth Roberts, age 25. This was after a bad scene on the street. First, police said, Roberts showed classic systems of impairment – blood-shot and watery eyes, rapid speech, jitters, tainted breath and tell-tale body odors. She couldn’t stand up straight, the officer said. When told she was under arrest, she dropped to the ground and embedded her wrists under her body to resist being cuffed, police said. She declined to be tested voluntarily for alcohol and drug content in her system, but blood was drawn at the jail anyway and sent to the state crime lab. Whether impairment charges are filed formally will depend on test results, which can take several days. The arrest was about7 p.m. at Fifth and Harvester streets on the West Side.
Roberts. Among booking charges: Resisting police.