Driver Arrested for DUI in Vernon Packie Parking Lot

VERNON, CT — A crash at a Vernon package store led to a drunken driving charge for a 67-year-old woman right down the street from her residence, an arrest report indicates.

Lynn Russell, who lives on the 1200 block of Hartford Turnpike, was arrested on July 3 at the Whiskey and Wine Package Store on the 1000 block of Hartford Turnpike, according to an arrest report. Police were summoned there after a crash took place in the parking lot records indicate.

Russell failed field sobriety tests and then registered a blood alcohol level of .209 on a breath test, according to an arrest report, She could not manage a second test and police had to consider it a refusal, according to an arrest report,

Drivers are legally drunk in Connecticut when they register a blood alcohol level of .08.

Russell is due in court in July 17, according to an arrest report.

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