She did extra than simply move the Bar!
A robust Iowa choose was busted driving intoxicated after allegedly zonking out behind the wheel and drifting into oncoming site visitors on a serious freeway, in response to police and witnesses.
State choose Adria Kester, 55, landed on the incorrect facet of the legislation after one other motorist reported she “seemed unconscious” and was “slumped over the steering wheel” on US Freeway 30 in Boone Tuesday evening, the Des Moines Register reported.
As her new pickup truck veered throughout the freeway’s median, a witness climbed into it by the again window and put it in park, in response to a Boone County Sheriff’s Workplace arrest report.
Kester — who’s chief choose of Iowa’s largest district, the Second Judicial — was “unsteady and couldn’t stroll on her personal,” in response to police.
Cops allegedly discovered “a cup with a liquid that smelled like alcohol” in her 2026 GMC Canyon Denali and noticed that she had “bloodshot watery eyes and slurred speech,” in response to the arrest report.
She was charged with working whereas intoxicated and booked into jail at 4 a.m. Wednesday.
She has pleaded not responsible.
“Choose Kester acknowledges the seriousness of the scenario and is totally cooperating with legislation enforcement and the judicial course of,” her lawyer, Matt Lindholm, stated in an announcement. “She is dedicated to addressing this matter responsibly and in accordance with the legislation.”
