Partially-nude woman 'caught huffing whippets while driving'

Partially-nude woman 'caught huffing whippets while driving'
Source: Daily Mail Online

Wild bodycam footage captured the moment a partially-nude woman asked cops to let her 'just go home' after she was allegedly caught huffing 'whippets' while driving.

The 46-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was seen in the footage breaking down in front of cops as they arrested her for driving while inhaling nitrous oxide in Pierce County, Washington.

Police said the incident was the first of four DUI arrests the woman received in just a two-week span, leading a judge to eventually issue a $50,000 warrant for repeatedly endangering the public.

In the first arrest on November 12, deputies were called to a parking lot as a witness allegedly saw the woman get behind the wheel of her Subaru and begin using the 'whippets'.

The drug involves canisters that are broken to release nitrous oxide gas, and users often use balloons to inhale the gas to get high. They are legal in Washington state for legitimate uses, such as for creating whipped cream, but are illegal to use as a recreational drug.

Deputies said they found a number of dispensed canisters inside the woman's car, and when they asked her to exit the vehicle the footage showed them realizing she was nude from the waist down.

As she claimed to the deputies she wasn't using the drug, the woman grew emotional as she slurred her words and pleaded: 'Can I just go home?'

Police said the incident was the first of four DUI arrests the woman received in just a two-week span, in which time she totaled her car twice and a judge issued a $50,000 warrant for repeatedly endangering the public.

At that first arrest, the woman agreed to take part in field sobriety tests, but authorities said she quickly failed them, reports KOMO.

She was arrested for physical control and booked into the Pierce County Jail, and she was freed after posting bail.

Just three days later on November 15, the same woman was arrested again after she drove her Subaru into a power box and street pole.

Officers on the scene reported that she was found to have a number of empty canisters in her vehicle, and footage showed her car was totaled in the wreck.

That incident led to upgraded charges of DUI and malicious mischief in the first degree.

After the woman's third arrest in eight days, a deputy berated her as he was the same deputy who arrested her in her first DUI - telling her: 'This is not ok, you're going to crash and kill someone'

On November 20, she was hit with another DUI charge as she was found by a witness in a parking lot slumped in her vehicle with more canisters inside her vehicle.

Footage from that incident showed deputies arriving at the parking lot just as the woman was attempting to drive away, and they used vehicles to block her from the exit.

The same deputy who arrested the woman in her first DUI just eight days earlier arrived on the scene, and he berated the driver for allegedly repeatedly driving under the influence.

He was seen telling her: 'What would you say if I told you that I knew you had just recently been arrested for DUI for the same thing? ... Do I look familiar? I was there.'

As she admitted it was her third offense in just over a week, the deputy scolded her and said he was requesting a prosecutor bring extra charges over her alleged reckless behavior.

'This is not ok, you're going to crash and kill someone,' he told her.

Three days after her third arrest, on November 23, the sheriff's office said it was called out to a fourth incident involving the same woman after she struck a parked car in Tacoma.

Despite her string of arrests, she was bailed out again and the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said she was 'back on the roads within 24 hours.'

Three days later on November 23, the sheriff's office said it was called out to a fourth incident involving the same woman after she struck a parked car in Tacoma.

That crash caused two parked cars to ram into each other while she totaled her car again.

In response to the string of arrests, the prosecutor's office issued two $50,000 DUI warrants for her arrest on Nov. 24, citing her as a high-risk danger to the community.

Deputies arrested her at her home on Nov. 26 around 7:30am. She remains in custody.