OAKLAND — A Richmond woman who allegedly escaped arrest for a solo-vehicle crash on the Bay Bridge by jumping into the Bay last month was “hella drunk,” according to a witness quoted in court charging documents filed Wednesday.

The California Highway Patrol says it captured 25-year-old Erlynn Kay Sanchez-Edwards in Oakland on Monday, almost a month after she escaped an officer trying to handcuff her on the Bay Bridge by jumping down about 70 feet into the Bay, swimming to shore and catching a ride with a tow-truck driver.

Sanchez-Edwards was arraigned in an Oakland courtroom on Wednesday afternoon on three misdemeanor counts: hit-and-run driving, evading an officer, and driving without a license.

The CHP says in court documents that Sanchez-Edwards had been working as a prostitute in the San Francisco Mission District on Aug. 12 before attempting to drive two others prostitutes to Oakland in a stolen car that Sanchez-Edwards ended up crashing on the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge at about 2 a.m.

One of her passengers told the CHP that they started to run from the responding officer because they were “hella drunk” from splitting a fifth of Hennessy.

Contact Malaika Fraley at 925-234-1684. Follow her at Twitter.com/malaikafraley.