Photo: Beaufort County Detention Center
A 32-year-old woman, Lauren Elizabeth Cutshaw, got drunk and then got behind the wheel of her Ford Fusion, blowing through stop signs at a high speed before she was pulled over in South Carolina.
She admitted having a couple of glasses of wine, but wouldn’t say how large the glasses were. Later on, she also conceded she “may have” smoked pot earlier in the evening, but she was, after all, celebrating her birthday at an upscale restaurant.
She then proceeded to beg the cops to let her go because she was “too pretty” to go to jail, as dashcam footage released by the police shows. She also tried to convince them by saying she was a “white, very clean and thoroughbred girl,” adding that the arresting officer should know what that means given his line of work.
When this failed too, she embarked on a long lecture meant to show the cops that she was really a good girl: she got high scores on all her exams, and graduated from a reputable university where she’d been on a scholarship. She was almost valedictorian, she told them, in between sobs. She had never been arrested before and she didn’t want to go to jail because she didn’t want to “know what it’s like.”
Oh, and she was dating a cop. In fact, she said she was on her way to his house when the officers had pulled her over.
All her arguments failed to strike a chord with the officers, as was to be expected. “Making statements such as these as a means to justify not being arrested are unusual in my experience as a law enforcement officer and I believe further demonstrate the suspect’s level of intoxication,” the officer wrote in the police report, according to the NY Post.
Nothing would change the fact that Cutshaw was sped at 60mph through a 4-way intersection, blowing a stop sign, she was slurring her words, had bloodshot eyes and had failed all sobriety field tests. She had a blood-alcohol level of 0.18, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in her car. She may have been a good girl all her life, but on that night, she’d been very, very naughty.
Cutshaw was charged with driving under the influence, speeding, disregarding a stop sign, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Whether she likes it or not, she will see the inside of a jail, even if only for a short while.
She then proceeded to beg the cops to let her go because she was “too pretty” to go to jail, as dashcam footage released by the police shows. She also tried to convince them by saying she was a “white, very clean and thoroughbred girl,” adding that the arresting officer should know what that means given his line of work.
When this failed too, she embarked on a long lecture meant to show the cops that she was really a good girl: she got high scores on all her exams, and graduated from a reputable university where she’d been on a scholarship. She was almost valedictorian, she told them, in between sobs. She had never been arrested before and she didn’t want to go to jail because she didn’t want to “know what it’s like.”
Oh, and she was dating a cop. In fact, she said she was on her way to his house when the officers had pulled her over.
All her arguments failed to strike a chord with the officers, as was to be expected. “Making statements such as these as a means to justify not being arrested are unusual in my experience as a law enforcement officer and I believe further demonstrate the suspect’s level of intoxication,” the officer wrote in the police report, according to the NY Post.
Nothing would change the fact that Cutshaw was sped at 60mph through a 4-way intersection, blowing a stop sign, she was slurring her words, had bloodshot eyes and had failed all sobriety field tests. She had a blood-alcohol level of 0.18, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in her car. She may have been a good girl all her life, but on that night, she’d been very, very naughty.
Cutshaw was charged with driving under the influence, speeding, disregarding a stop sign, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Whether she likes it or not, she will see the inside of a jail, even if only for a short while.
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