Fashion as well as sobriety tests failed

There was the flushed face, slurred speech and glassy eyes. But what really spelled “drunken driver” for Hallandale Beach police officer Eric Bruce was the woman’s attire: a tank top worn sideways, backward and with her head through an arm hole.

But what really added to Tamera Brown’s woes were threats and attempts at bribery, according to police. Those would come later. Bruce pulled Brown over around 8 p.m. Thursday after he spotted her speeding and weaving in traffic while heading eastbound on Hallandale Beach Boulevard near 14th Avenue, narrowing missing other cars, an arrest report said.

As he approached the driver’s side of her 2013 silver MercedesBenz, Bruce said, Brown kept trying to climb into the back seat.

“I can give you money if you let me get home to my dog,” she told the officer, according to his threepage report.

He administered the standard sobriety tests. She failed.

Brown was “unable to remain focused,” Bruce reported. She “walked in a zigzag pattern” and was “uncertain what she was doing wrong.”

When arrested on suspicion of DUI and placed in the back of Bruce’s patrol car, the 40-year-old Hallandale Beach woman made a bid to be released. “You can take all the money I have,” she said. “Just let me go home.”

Bruce declined, and while driving her to jail, Brown upped the ante, he reported. She threatened him with “career suicide” should he continue with the arrest, the officer said.

“You don’t know who you are messing with,” he recounted her saying in his report. “With the people I know, your job will be mine.”

Along with DUI, Bruce charged Brown with bribery and threatening a public servant. She was not charged for the wardrobe malfunction.

In bond court Thursday afternoon, Brown told the judge she works in a bar as an “entertainer.”