Stafford Woman Charged With 3rd DUI Offense

(Stafford)- The Stafford Sheriff’s Office says a 42-year-old county woman got her third DUI charge after losing control of her car and landing in a ditch Sunday afternoon on Clarion Drive. A caller told dispatchers that the woman lost control of her car and went off the road. After the car came to a stop, the caller said the woman got out and tried to leave the scene with a bottle of alcohol in her hand. When deputies arrived, they found that the driver, Vicki Neulinger, was showing multiple signs of being intoxicated. After a search deputies found an empty mini-bottle of 99 inside the car and two empty mini-bottles of vodka in her purse.
Neulinger was charged with driving under the influence third offense in ten years, refusal and three counts of obstruction of justice.