Former Miss America is arrested for driving drunk

Former Miss USA, Rima Fakih was arrested for driving at excessive speed and Zig in traffic with a half-empty bottle of champagne and a level of alcohol in the blood that doubles the legal limit reported Tuesday police in Detroit after arrest in the enclave of Highland Park.

In the order for his arrest for driving drunk obtained by The Associated Press said that 26-year-old Dearborn, Mich., was arrested when driving to 97 kilometres per hour (60 miles), zigzagueaba and changing lanes without light signal warning.

A police officer who was only identified as r. Kalis said her was arrested around 2: 15 in the morning.

The report details Fakih was driving a black Jaguar 2011. When asked her immediate driver's license was identified as Miss USA and stated that it was the vehicle of a friend.

Kalis said in the report that she "seemed disoriented" but u000aWhen asked he denied that he had been drinking. However, the officers found a bottle of Moet & Chandon halfway on the floor behind the driver's seat.

Two breath tests showed levels of 0.19 and 0.20 per cent of alcohol in the blood. Michigan law defines the State of drunkenness in 0.08%.

Fakih was handcuffed and taken to a police station until that "it would be sober about their security and that of others". The police withdrew the driver's license and must report to the Court within 10 days.

born in Lebanon, won the Miss USA Pageant contest in 2010. It was the first woman from Michigan to win since 1993 and the first of árabe-estadounidense origin in the history of the contest of beauty

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