Stanton Woman Tests Four Times Above Legal Limit

A Stanton woman was arrested Saturday night after testing four times the legal limit.

The Stanton County Sheriff’s office responded to a report of a vehicle in the ditch off 570th Avenue about five miles southeast of Stanton at about 9 p.m.  Upon arriving the lone female driver, identified as 29-year-old Katherine Hansen of Stanton, was located passed out in the vehicle and found to be highly intoxicated. 

She was placed under arrest for Driving While Intoxicated and later submitted to a breath test at the Sheriff’s office where she tested nearly four times the legal limit.  Hansen was later booked on a charge an aggravated DWI (above .150% BAC.) and released on a cash bond with a court date set for July.