When police searched her car, they found an open bottle of brandy in the front seat along with empty bottles of root beer-flavored nips, police said.

Amy Rebello-McCarthy, 39, veered off the road and struck half a dozen mailboxes before crashing onto a lawn, police said. When police arrived around 1:30 p.m., Rebello-McCarthy slurred her words as she asked officers to call a tow truck. All four tires were flat, the airbags had been deployed, and the bumpers were missing, police said.

A Taunton woman arrested Monday afternoon on drunk driving charges was carrying a lizard in her bra, police said.


Rebello-McCarthy’s blood alcohol content was measured at nearly twice the legal limit, police said.

A 22-year-old Waltham man, Martin Kyewalyanga, was in the passenger seat when the car crashed, witnesses told police. While police were talking to Rebello-McCarthy, Kyewalyanga was smoking a cigarette near the back of the car, where gasoline was dripping. Police asked him to step away from the vehicle, fearing that he might start a fire.

Kyewalyanga was placed under arrest for his own safety because he was so inebriated, police said.

As she was arrested, Rebello-McCarthy told police officers that she was carrying a bearded dragon in her bra. The lizard was placed “in a red bandana for safe keeping,” police wrote in their report.

“It faces no charges at this time,” police wrote in a Facebook post that had some fun at Rebello-McCarthy’s expense.

She has been arraigned 109 times in her adult life, police said.

“You can’t make this stuff up,” police wrote in the post.

Maddie Kilgannon can be reached at maddie.kilgannon@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @MaddieKilgannon.