Wrong-way driver busted for DWI

Posted at: 07/30/2009 10:44 PM | Updated at: 07/31/2009 7:39 AM
By: Cris Ornelas, Eyewitness News 4; Charlie Pabst, KOB.com

Police say a man high on prescription drugs almost crashed head-on into one of their officers, and they say they have the tape to prove it.

On July 18, just before Midnight in Las Vegas, 8 year state police veteran Kiersten Harzewski was taking a drunk driver to jail when she saw headlights approaching in her lane.

She immediately turned around and stopped the car.

She says she found 24-year-old Dominic Vigil dazed and confused behind the wheel.

Other officers rushed to the scene to help Harzewski since she was using her only pair of cuffs on the suspected drunk in the back of her car.

Vigil admitted to taking the powerful narcotic Lortab before driving. He then failed a series of sobriety tests.

"While processing him in the medical center in Las Vegas, a baggie fell out of his sock containing a baggie of blue pills which turned out to be Xanax," State Police Spokesman Lt. Eric Garcia said Thursday.

The pills weren't in a prescription bottle and Vigil couldn't show cops prescriptions for either medication, so they added possession charges to his DWI.

Even after that, Vigil still can't grasp what just happened.

He asked in the dashcam video, "What did I do wrong?"

Harzewski responded, "You almost killed me."

Vigil was already on probation for possession when he was busted, but state police say he has no prior DWI charges on his record.

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