SANTA FE (KRQE) – Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies said a woman made it pretty easy for them to tell she was drunk. To make matters worse, deputies said she had a child with her, and it was all caught on dash cam video.

Investigators arrested a couple for DWI, even though only one of them was initially pulled over.

Tuesday evening, a Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputy pulled up to QBs sports bar near Pojoaque. Another deputy had already pulled over 47-year-old James Quintana. Deputies were conducting a DWI investigation with Quintana.

As the second deputy arrived, he was told someone from QBs called Quintana’s wife. As investigators talked to Quintana, they said 41-year-old Cherity Roybal-Vigil drove up to the scene in an orange car.

The deputy said he immediately smelled alcohol on Roybal-Vigil.

“It kind of questions judgement right? When you have someone who’s showing up at a scene with police officers – drunk,” said Juan Rios, spokesman for the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.

“How much alcohol have you had today?” The deputy asked Roybal-Vigil. “I’ve had two glasses of wine and my mother’s on her way here,” she answered.

When deputies ran Quintana’s information, investigators said they found Quintana already has five DWIs on his record.

Now both in trouble, one of the deputies gave Roybal-Vigil field sobriety tests.

“I have to work from 5 o’clock in the morning to f**** 3 in the afternoon, so…” she told the deputy, while performing a test.

“You don’t seem to be taking this test very serious,” the deputy responded.

As the tests continued, another deputy helped the woman’s young son out of her car.

“Driving impaired is reckless, and when you have another person in the car, it only exacerbates the situation,” Rios told KRQE News 13.

In one of the tests, the woman was instructed to count backwards from 63 to 41. “Fifty-three, 52, 51, 50, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50,” she counted. “Forty, 41, 42 and 43. Was that correct?” Investigators said she failed multiple sobriety tests.

Finally, the deputy asked Roybal-Vigil to perform a breath test.

“You’ve only had two drinks?” The deputy asked. At the end of the breath test, he told Roybal-Vigil, “0.15, you’re almost double the legal limit.”

As Roybal-Vigil was arrested for DWI, she waved to her son. “I love you mom,” he told her. “Love you too dude,” she answered.

Both Roybal-Vigil and Quintana were taken to jail, each charged with DWI. Deputies said the boy was released to a relative.

As of Friday, the woman was released from jail. Quintana remained behind bars. Deputies said he’s charged with his sixth DWI, a felony.

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