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News broke only yesterday that Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was charged with drunk driving on Friday of the week before. Walton got pulled over and taken in for booking after a trooper caught her going 70mph in a 55mph construction zone on I-20 in Weatherford, Tex. Alice was coming back from her 62nd birthday party and had a little too much bug juice.
There’s no conspiracy, say officials, in why there was a delay in the mug shot and booking information getting out earlier. As the Weatherford Democrat explains:
This latest incident was treated as a first offense. Walton refused a breath test at the scene. In Texas, if you get a second offense DWI you have to install and maintain a deep lung air device on the car that requires a breath sample before it will allow you to start your car. They also require periodic breaths while driving to monitor and insure sobriety. Do they sell these kinds of things at Wal-Mart?
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News broke only yesterday that Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was charged with drunk driving on Friday of the week before. Walton got pulled over and taken in for booking after a trooper caught her going 70mph in a 55mph construction zone on I-20 in Weatherford, Tex. Alice was coming back from her 62nd birthday party and had a little too much bug juice.
There’s no conspiracy, say officials, in why there was a delay in the mug shot and booking information getting out earlier. As the Weatherford Democrat explains:
Typically, jail book-in information and a head shot picture are published on the Parker County Jail website within hours of an arrest in Parker County. However, Walton’s arrest information and mug shot did not appear to be published on the Parker County Jail website until a call was made to the Parker County Sheriff’s Office from a Democrat reporter Wednesday afternoon.We’re assuming the $1,000 bond wasn’t a problem. But Alice needs to be careful about getting behind the wheel. She was convicted of DWI in Arkansas in 1998 after she crashed her SUV off a road in Springdale. She blew a 0.16 blood-alcohol level at the hospital after the crash.
Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said as far as he knows, the information was published on the website all along and wasn’t aware there was an issue viewing the information on the website.
“There’s no conspiracy,” Fowler said.
According to jail records, Walton was booked into jail shortly after 11 p.m. Friday and released on $1,000 bond around 8:40 a.m. Saturday.
This latest incident was treated as a first offense. Walton refused a breath test at the scene. In Texas, if you get a second offense DWI you have to install and maintain a deep lung air device on the car that requires a breath sample before it will allow you to start your car. They also require periodic breaths while driving to monitor and insure sobriety. Do they sell these kinds of things at Wal-Mart?
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