Crime & Safety

Police: After DWI Hoboken Woman Became Aggressive with Officers

Police said she also became aggressive with police officers.

Hoboken police arrested a 30-year-old Hoboken woman after allegedly driving while intoxicated on Saturday, which prompted her to become "very aggressive to several police officers and ambulance workers, police said. 

Taina Otero, 30, was seen in her silver colored Honda, which was parked at Fifth and Jackson Streets around 5 p.m., police said. 

According to the police report, Otero was seated in the driver's seat with her left foot hanging out of the window and her right foot on the dashboard. Police said that when an officer approached her to see if she was alright, she answered "of course, what's the problem?" 

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"I was in no accident," Otero told police, "I just parked my car." 

After the officer asked the woman to leave her vehicle—with which she complied—she seemed to be intoxicated, police said. According to the report, she was "boisterous" and rambling profanities. She had no alcohol emanating from her breath, but her pupils where constricted, police said.  

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According to the police report, Otero was being "very aggressive." An ambulance came to pick her up and administer an alcohol test, police said. 

Otero was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and was taken to the Hoboken University Medical Center, police said. "At the hospital she became irate, yelling at the nurses," the police report stated. "It took six people to restrain her."

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