Pottstown woman charged with 3rd DUI
A 35-year-old Pottstown woman has been charged with her third drunk driving incident after a crash on Route 422.
NORTH COVENTRY >> A 35-year-old Pottstown woman has been charged with her third drunk driving incident after a vehicle she was driving crashed on Route 422 last week, police said.
Township police responded to the report of a single-vehicle accident at mile marker 171.6 at 7:45 p.m. March 22.
There, according to a post on the township’s Crimewatch page, they found a white Chevrolet Equinox which had “hit a guard rail head-on.”
Sandy Zazueta “was taken into custody for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. Zazueta refused testing and was processed and released to a sober adult,” according to police.
DUI and other trafficrelated charges were filed against Zazueta.
Police said it was Zazueta’s third DUI offense.
According to court records, her most recent DUI in Chester County occurred in West Whiteland Township in November
2016. She pled guilty to public drunkenness and had her license suspended and was fined a total of nearly $3,000.
Zazueta made the last payment on that fine in November 2020, according to court records.
• Also charged with
DUI recently by North Coventry Police was Rodney Mordan, 56, of Norristown.
According to the township’s Crimewatch page, the arrest was made after the police conducted a traffic stop on March 19 on a Nissan Altima for disregarding traffic lanes, changing lanes without using a turn signal and speeding.
“During the course of the investigation officers determined Mordan was operating his vehicle under the influence and was subsequently arrested. Mordan was processed at the Pottstown Police Station and later released to his mother,” police said.
• Another Route 422 crash, this one on March 26, led to a drug possession arrest.
According to a post on the township’s Crimewatch page, Gregory Sanders, 33, no residence provided, was involved in a crash on the eastbound side of Route 422 at mile marker 172.2 at about 11 p.m.
“Through investigation of the vehicle crash, it was discovered that Sanders was in possession of suspected narcotics,” according to police.
Sanders also had an outstanding drug warrant dating back to September of 2020, according to police.