GREENFIELD — A 35-year-old Florence woman was arrested in Greenfield Saturday afternoon after police say she was pulled over while driving drunk with her 8-year-old daughter in the passenger seat.
Kristen Marie Sampson of Florence Road was arraigned on charges of operating under the influence of alcohol, child endangerment while operating under the influence, a marked lanes violation and no inspection sticker in Greenfield District Court Tuesday.
According to a report, Greenfield police officer Justin Purinton was on patrol on Leyden Road Saturday around 4 p.m. when he conducted a random query of the vehicle in front of him and saw it had failed inspection in April.
As he initiated a stop with his emergency lights activated, Purinton wrote the vehicle veered left, crossing the double yellow line, continued a short distance and then pulled over to the right.
Upon approaching the vehicle, Purinton wrote he detected a strong odor of alcohol. The operator, identified as Sampson, told him she drank a little wine earlier in the day but did not feel drunk, according to the report. However, he noted in the report that her eyes were glassy and bloodshot and she was slurring her words slightly.
Sampson failed a series of field sobriety tests, according to the report, and a preliminary breath test showed a result of 0.105 percent blood alcohol content. She was placed under arrest and her 8-year-old daughter, who was in the passenger seat, was brought to her grandparents’ house in Plymouth by the Department of Children and Families.
Sampson’s blood alcohol content was recorded at 0.09 percent during booking, according to the report, and bail was set at $5,000.
Her bail was set at $750 following her arraignment Tuesday and she was ordered to abstain from alcohol with screens. She is due back in court July 6 for a pretrial conference.