TAUNTON -- A woman who was carrying a bearded dragon lizard in her bra was arrested Monday afternoon after driving drunk and crashing through multiple mailboxes on Staple Street in Taunton, police said.

Amy Rebello-McCarthy, 39 of Newton, was arrested on charges of operating under the influence, driving to endanger and marked lane violation, police said on their Facebook page Tuesday morning.

Police said the 1999 Mercedes that Rebello-McCarthy had been operating, struck six mailboxes, some of which flew through the air and smashed the rear window of a parked car and crashed into a lawn Monday around 1:20 p.m.

The Mercedes had four flat tires, the airbags were deployed and both bumpers were ripped off, police said.

Witnesses told police the woman who had been driving the car was out and her male friend had gone into the driver’s side in an attempt to drive the vehicle back onto the road, police said.

When police arrived at the scene Rebello-McCarthy was laughing and asked the officers, in slurred words, to call a tow truck so they could be on their way, police said.

Police said Rebello-McCarthy’s blood alcohol level was just shy of double the legal driving limit.

Before being transported to the police station Rebello-McCarthy told police that she was in a possession of a bearded dragon lizard, which while driving she had held in her bra, police said.

At the rear of the vehicle, smoking a cigarette, was a 22-year-old man from Waltham, who was also slurring his words and couldn’t remember his name when police asked. Police asked the man not to smoke, particularly in light of the fact gasoline was leaking from the vehicle.

In the man’s waistband police saw what looked like the butt of a semi-automatic weapon, which was later identified as an air-soft replica, police said. The man was placed in protective custody.

The lizard was turned over to animal control, police said.