Kathleen Kane, on probation after a 2016 conviction on perjury and other charges, crashed into another car about 3 miles from her house in Scranton. She failed a field sobriety test, then refused to take a breathalyzer, according to the criminal affidavit.
Pennsylvania’s former top state prosecutor was arrested last Saturday for driving under the influence in her hometown of Scranton, and was formally charged Thursday.
Kane, a Democrat, remains the only woman to have been elected as the state’s attorney general. While in office, she leaked grand jury documents about a civil rights leader and a jury found she lied to the grand jury investigating the leak. She served more than eight months in jail in 2017. Kane was arrested after police responded to a two-car accident without injuries at about 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of Moosic Street and Meadow Avenue. The crash occurred about three miles from her home.
Officers then administered a field sobriety test, which Kane failed, the affidavit said. Pennsylvania's former top law enforcement official then refused to take a breathalyzer test, the report said.
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