ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) - A Roswell cop
who crashed into a parked car has been arrested for allegedly driving
drunk.Police say Stephanie Coon was off-duty at 2 a.m. Friday when she hit the
car on Del Norte Street.When they looked in the car officers found an open
liquor container.Coon refused a breath test, so she's charged with aggravated
DWI, police reported.
She is now on administrative
leave."We live in that glass bubble," Roswell Officer Erica O'Bryon
told KRQE News 13. "It's going to happen, and as a police department we
are going to uphold the law whether it's one of our own or someone
else."Coon is the wife of former Roswell Officer Justin Coon who has also been
in trouble with the law.He was sentenced to five years probation for using
stolen IDs to obtain drugs commonly used to make meth. He was eventually
fired.Justin Coon also is the son of Chaves County Sheriff Rob Coon.