A Tucson police officer is facing termination after supervisors say she was driving drunk on her way to work Tuesday morning.
Officer Lynsey Coutts was arrested on suspicion of DUI soon after she pulled over after calling her supervisor about 9:20 a.m. to say she was speeding down Interstate 10 trying to make it to work as quickly as possible but she feared crashing into other cars, Sgt. Maria Hawke said in a news release. Coutts was on a work improvement plan that said she was to have no alcohol in her system during a work shift. She was scheduled to be on duty at 9 a.m., Hawke said in the release.
Coutts pulled off freeway at the supervisor’s urging near the Avra Valley Road exit.
Officers from the police department and state Department of Public Safety say Coutts showed signs of intoxication.
She was arrested by the state DPS on suspicion of DUI. Coutts had a preliminary blood-alcohol level of 0.235, nearly three times the state legal limit of 0.08, Hawke said in the release.
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The department served Coutts with termination papers Tuesday afternoon.
