Revere woman arrested on 6th OUI

ARLINGTON? A Revere woman was arrested and charged with her sixth drunken-driving offense after the police chief witnessed her nearly causing a serious crash while driving the wrong way down an Arlington street.
“Approaching the car, the chief asked [the defendant] for her license and registration, and she reached into her purse and handed him a credit card and a receipt from a liquor store for a bottle of vodka,” Arlington Police wrote in a press release. “The chief then saw an open bottle of vodka on her passenger seat and could clearly smell the odor of liquor on her breath.”
Brenda Drinkwater, 60, was arrested and charged with operating under the influence of liquor, sixth offense; negligent operation of a motor vehicle to endanger; drinking from an open container while driving; and failure to keep to the right; on Monday, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s office. [A statement from Arlington Police said this was her seventh offense; but the district attorney’s office said it was a sixth offense.
Arlington Police Chief Frederick Ryan was driving in an unmarked police car at approximately 5:30 p.m. Monday when he saw a grey two-door car driving the wrong way down Summer Street in Arlington, according to an Arlington Police press release. A man in another car was following the vehicle, repeatedly honking his horn and yelling at the woman to stop.
The chief turned on his emergency lights and pulled the woman over. Drinkwater allegedly nearly fell over and was extremely unsteady on her feet as she failed a number of sobriety tests.Drinkwater was arraigned Tuesday in Cambridge District Court where she was held pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Friday, according to the district attorney’s office.