Weston Woman, 50, Charged with DUI at New Canaan DUI Checkpoint

A woman driving south on Talmadge Hill Road early Saturday morning was stopped at a police checkpoint set up to find drivers under the influence, and officers found that she was, New Canaan police said.

And, police said, she was driving on a flat tire after hitting something (but she didn’t remember what).

It was the only arrest for driving under the influence that police reported making in the several hours they spent at the checkpoint Friday night and into Saturday morning.

(Police said they did, however, find several people who had been smoking marijuana, and in one car they said they found heroin in possession of two people.)

Police gave this further account of the DUI matter (an accusation not proven in court):

Kathleen Isaacs, 50, of Tobacco Road in Weston drove her 2013 BMW from a friend’s home. She had been on Ponus Ridge Road, then on Jeliff Mill Road and then turned onto Old Stamford Road when she came upon the police checkpoint.

When police approached to ask their standard question (whether the driver had been drinking), they could smell the odor of alcohol coming from inside the car and saw her eyes were bloodshot and watery and her speech was slurred.

Isaacs was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol, then later released on $250 bond. She is scheduled to appear Jan. 8, 2015 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.