A candidate for the Minneapolis City Council was arrested in St. Paul on Saturday night on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.

The St. Paul Police Department stopped Tiffini Flynn Forslund at Dale and University avenues for driving 49 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone, according to a police report.

Forslund “appeared impaired and failed field sobriety tests,” the report said. A breath test showed she had a 0.09 blood-alcohol concentration. The legal limit to drive in Minnesota is 0.08 BAC.

Forslund had no prior DUIs, the police report noted. She was taken to the Ramsey County Jail, where she was cited for driving under the influence and released at 6 a.m. Sunday on her own recognizance.

Forslund had declared herself a candidate against Minneapolis City Council Member Abdi Warsame, who was endorsed by the Minneapolis DFL for re-election on July 8.

Reached by phone on Sunday, Forslund said she would neither confirm nor deny her arrest. “I’m not sure I want to confirm that at this point,” she said. “I can’t confirm that right now.”

Mara H. Gottfried contributed to this report.