Nantucket official seen slurring words with open White Claws in her car in embarrassing DUI arrest video

A controversial town official in wealthy Nantucket was caught slurring her words with several open cans of White Claw in her car in embarrassing bodycam footage of a DUI arrest.Planning Director Leslie Woodson Snell’s arrest sparked outrage in the well-heeled Massachusetts island when her contract was still renewed months later, allowing her to keep her $203,000-a-year job.Now, video shows how Snell, 47, was found glassy-eyed and swaying after crashing a Jeep SUV into a street sign near a restaurant she admits she’d been drinking at in Yarmouth.The footage starts with a passerby in a Red Sox hoodie standing next to her vehicle, telling reporting officers that the female driver seems confused.“I don’t know what’s going on with her.She doesn’t really know where she’s at,” he tells the cops.Yarmouth police officer Samantha Voltolini reports that Snell had “glassy, bloodshot eyes” and “a strong odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from her breath.”“I also observed a moderate odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from the vehicle,” Voltolini wrote in the police report, seen by the Nantucket Current.Asked how much she had to drink at Giardinos, an adjacent restaurant, Snell slurred as she claimed it had been “just a couple drinks.”Officers found an open bottle of vodka in the backseat, alcohol nips in her purse and several open cans of White Claw in the center console and driver’s seat door.Asked to “be honest” about how much she had drunk, Snell again insisted she had only a couple — even as she struggled to recall where she lived.

“It was difficult to gain information from Woodson due to her speaking incoherently,” the officer noted in the report.The planning official also failed multiple field sobriety tests and again refused to take a breathalyzer test once at the precinct.She was arraigned on April 21, and reached a plea deal a week later, agreeing to forfeit her driver’s license for 45 days, complete a driver alcohol ed...