BYRON, Minn. — A Kasson woman, already facing hit-and-run charges in anther county, now faces new traffic-related charges. Brittany Nicole Edgar, 33, was pulled over by a state trooper who reported seeing her merge several times without turn signals and drifting cross over lanes. This was on Highway 14 west of Rochester. Once stopped, the trooper reported smelling alcohol and seeing other signs of intoxication. Edgar then failed multiple sobriety tests, the trooper said. The situation deteriorated. According to court documents:
> The trooper asked Edgar several times for a breath sample, but she argued with him every time he held up a breathalyzer device. Finally the trooper manually captured a sample of air gtom her mouth. Her blood concentration was 0.07%, approaching the legal impairment level.
> The trooper found a glass pipe on Edgar– a type popular among druggies.. In her pursee was an open bottle of vodka. In the car’s center console were several empty shooters of vodka and also another meth pipe.
> When told she was under arrest, Edgar took off running into the ditch. She tripped in the snow and was arrested.
> At the Olmsted County jail Edgar would not let a phlebotomist draw her blood but agreed a urine sample. When Edgar handed the sample to the trooper, it was with water.