TORONTO – Married couples are known for doing everything together: Vacations. Movies. Dinners out. Even DWI arrests.
According to the Santa Fe County Sherriff’s office, that’s exactly what happened earlier this month after police stopped a man for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) – and his equally-drunk wife arrived on the scene.
The incident took place on June 13 after deputies responded to a call at QB’s Sports Bar near Pojoaque, where 47-year-old James Quintana had been stopped for a DWI investigation.
As police talked to Quintana, they say somebody in the bar had called his wife to let her know her husband had been stopped.
A short while later, 41-year-old Cherity Roybal-Vigil arrived on the scene – and officers say they could immediately smell alcohol on her person.
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Police dashcams captured the scene as husband and wife quickly sank into separate-but-related legal quagmires. As the cops ran Quintana’s record – and discovered a whopping five previous DWI charges – police were administering a field sobriety test to Roybal-Vigil.
“I have to work from 5 o’clock in the morning to f**** 3 in the afternoon, so…” she told the deputy, while performing the sobriety test.
“You don’t seem to be taking this test very serious,” the deputy is heard replying to her.
Next, the officer asks Roybal-Vigil to count backwards from 63 to 41.
“Fifty-three, 52, 51, 50, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50,” she counts. “Forty, 41, 42 and 43.”
“Was that correct?”
Eventually, a breathalyzer test reveals a blood alcohol level of 0.15, nearly double the legal limit in New Mexico.
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Then, one last surprise: Roybal-Vigil’s son exits the back of her vehicle, even saying “I love you,” to his mom as an officer cuffs her, to which she replies; “Love you too, dude.”
“Driving impaired is reckless, and when you have another person in the car, it only exacerbates the situation,” Rios told KRQE News 13.
Police say the boy was released into the care of a relative while both husband and wife were booked for DWI. Roybal-Vigil was released later that week, but Quintana remains behind bars facing his sixth DWI charge, which now qualifies as a felony.
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