Bodycam shows Nantucket official slurring, swaying during DUI stop after crashing into sign: police

Newly released video shows a Nantucket authoritative arrested connected charges of allegedly being nether the power with intoxicant successful her car aft she crashed into a thoroughfare sign.

Bodycam video from the Yarmouth Police Department shows Nantucket, Massachusetts, municipality Planning Director Leslie Snell appearing to conflict erstwhile asked to execute sobriety tests. Police were responding to the April 20 incidental aft Snell allegedly crashed into a thoroughfare sign, according to the Nantucket Current.

Snell told the serviceman she had "Just a mates of drinks" astatine Giardinos, a section restaurant, erstwhile she got retired of the Jeep she was driving, according to the bodycam video.

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Bodycam video shows Leslie Snell seated successful her Jeep with the driver's doorway unfastened arsenic a Yarmouth constabulary serviceman questions her during the April 20 postulation stop (Yarmouth Police Department)

A vessel of vodka and a container of White Claws could beryllium seen wrong the car, according to the video.

A constabulary study states that Snell was charged with operating a centrifugal conveyance nether the power of intoxicant and possessing an unfastened instrumentality of intoxicant successful a centrifugal vehicle.

Snell reached a plea statement connected April 21 that puts the driving nether the power complaint connected clasp for 1 twelvemonth without a ceremonial finding. Under the deal, she indispensable surrender her driver's licence for 45 days, implicit an intoxicant acquisition people and wage $600 successful fines.

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According to a constabulary report, Yarmouth constabulary serviceman Samantha Voltolini said Snell's eyes were "blood shot."

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Leslie Snell stands adjacent her conveyance arsenic a Yarmouth constabulary serviceman looks connected during the DUI halt that followed her alleged clang into a thoroughfare sign. (Yarmouth Police Department)

"I observed her to person glassy humor changeable eyes," Voltolini said. "I besides observed a mean odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from the vehicle. I past went implicit to the driver's broadside to talk with her. I past observed a beardown odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from her breath."

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Voltolini could beryllium heard saying that Giardinos was lone astir 100 yards away.

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"I attempted to explicate to (Snell) that Giardino's was lone a abbreviated ways distant and I was confused astir however she ended up successful the parking batch of the Transmission Specialists," Voltolini wrote successful the report. "I asked her wherever she lived. She informed maine Nantucket. I asked if she had a spot successful municipality she said, ‘yes.’ I asked whereabouts, but she could not pass me. (Snell) named ‘North Troy’ arsenic the determination she was attempting to spell to. It was hard to summation accusation from Woodson owed to her speaking incoherently. I asked Woodson if she needed immoderate aesculapian attention, but she refused."

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Bodycam footage timestamped April 20, 2026, shows Snell speaking with a Yarmouth constabulary serviceman dring the tract sobriety stop. (Yarmouth Police Department)

During the tract sobriety tests, according to the study and assemblage camera video, Voltolini swayed from broadside to broadside and was unbalanced.

In a remark to The Inquirer and Mirror aft being arrested, Snell said, "I profoundly regret the lawsuit that occurred off-island connected April 20 portion I was attending to idiosyncratic commitments. I judge afloat work for my actions and the substance has been resolved."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Snell for comment.