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A state representative is apologizing after she was arrested for drunk driving late last week.
48-year-old Democrat Rebekah Warren of Ann Arbor was pulled over just before midnight Thursday by police in Auburn Hills, in Oakland County. Officers say she was weaving through traffic, and sideswiped a guard rail. She failed a field sobriety test, and refused to take a breath test. She later refused to allow a blood test to be taken until after a warrant was issued.
In a statement released Friday evening, Warren called her plan to drive home after attending a gathering in Detroit a “stupid decision.” She said she was grateful that she did not hurt anyone.
She did not explain what she was doing traveling northbound on I-75 in Auburn Hills. That’s well off the path one would usually take from Detroit to her home in Ann Arbor.
Warren is in her final term in state government, having served four years in the House, and eight years in the Senate, before being returned to the House for her last two years under term limit laws.
