GALLUP, N.M. — Authorities arrested a New Mexico State Police officer for aggravated DWI late Thursday night in Gallup.

NMSP confirmed officer Rachel Hall is on leave as she is accused of nearly hitting another vehicle and a light pole before law enforcement officers had to pull her from her vehicle to arrest her on suspicion of drunk driving.

Just after 11 p.m. Thursday, a McKinley County Sheriff’s deputy noticed a vehicle started going the wrong way as the driver turned from Route 66 to South Third Street. According to a criminal complaint, a deputy followed the vehicle and saw it nearly hit another vehicle at a stop light and then a light pole while driving on the sidewalk.

The deputy activated their lights and siren after the vehicle blew out two tires and stopped in the middle of the road. They exited the vehicle and approached the driver’s side window, which is when the driver rolled the window down “about two inches.” That was when the deputy smelled alcohol and noticed signs of intoxication before she rolled up the window, according to the criminal complaint.

After this, the driver allegedly refused to exit the vehicle – instead making a phone call to “her sergeant” and locking the doors.

A Gallup police officer arrived to help. The officer and the deputy warned Hall they would break the window if she didn’t get out. She refused “until my sergeant gets here,” the complaint stated, prompting a deputy to break the window and pull her out of the vehicle.

While handcuffing her, a deputy said they smelled alcohol and that she refused to do a breath test.

Law enforcement searched her vehicle and allege they found a 750 ml bottle of vodka with about “three-quarters of it missing.”

Hall is now in the McKinley County Adult Detention Center. She faces charges of aggravated DWI, having an open container in her vehicle, driving on the wrong side of the road and three counts of resisting/evading an officer.

According to NMSP, Hall has been with NMSP for four years and eight months.

An investigation is still ongoing.