A drunken patron came out of an Uptown bar around closing time last month and had the misfortune of driving her vehicle into a fire truck.
And then she backed into a police car.
The 28-year-old woman's arrest was among the 2,353 made as part of a statewide enforcement campaign that spanned from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend all the way to New Year's, according to data released this week by the state Department of Public Safety (DPS).
Silver lining: That total is roughly 15% below the previous year's tally of 2,757 and the lowest since the late-year enforcement effort began in 2014.
Along with the numbers, DPS highlighted some of the more remarkable circumstances leading to arrest.
Shortly before 2 a.m. on Dec. 28, Asha D. Willis got in her vehicle without a valid license to leave the VFW Post in the 2900 block of S. Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis but didn't get far, according to authorities. First, Willis struck a parked fire truck, then shifted into reverse only to hit a police squad car, according to the felony drunken-driving charges.
The south Minneapolis resident was taken to jail and given a preliminary breath test that registered her blood alcohol content at 0.24%, three times the legal limit for driving in Minnesota, the charges continued. She has three drunken-driving convictions on her record. A message was left with Willis seeking her response to the allegations.
Also among the late 2019 arrests were two involving motorists who allegedly topped the blood alcohol content list at 0.40%, which is five times the legal limit for driving in Minnesota:
