US drink-drive expert arrested for drink-driving

A contract worker for a US sheriff’s department is accused of drink driving on the way to a jail to test a suspect’s blood alcohol content.

Fifty-three-year-old Kathleen Cherry told a Carson City sheriff’s deputy who smelled alcohol on her breath that she had one margarita before driving, the Nevada Appeal newspaper reported.

She’s accused of failing field sobriety tests and registering a blood alcohol content over the state’s legal limit of 0.08%.

Cherry is a phlebotomist, trained to draw blood for lab tests. She was booked on a misdemeanour drunken driving charge, and her bail was set at more than $1,000 (€775).