A West Palm Beach woman being cited for driving with a suspended license was arrested Tuesday after she allegedly “huffed” from an aerosol can in the presence of a Delray Beach police officer, according to an arrest report.
Police were called after a witness said he saw a woman, later identified as Amber Cheyenne Wall, crash her Acura Integra into a cement pole. The witness told police he saw the woman slumped over the steering wheel when it crashed, the report said.
Wall, 24, told police she didn’t know how the crash took place and added she “was tired because she had been up all night after being kicked out of a recovery house in Lantana.”
A background check revealed that Wall’s driver’s license from Indiana was suspended, the report said. As a result, Wall’s vehicle was towed from the scene.
Wall was instructed to sit on the sidewalk as an officer wrote out traffic citations. As the paperwork was being completed, the officer heard “a loud hissing noise coming from Wall’s direction,” the report said.
The officer walked toward Wall, now laid out on the sidewalk, and saw a green 12-ounce can of “Ultra Duster Industrial Strength” in her hand, according to the report.
Ultra Duster is a solvent often employed to clean computers and computer parts, but used by drug abusers to get high through a process referred to as “huffing.” Chemicals are poured onto a rag or into a bag and then held over the nose or mouth to be inhaled. They can also be inhaled directly by sniffing vapors from their containers or by spraying into the mouth or nose.
“Wall was momentarily incoherent and her pupils were small and constricted,” the report said.
Wall is facing charges of inhaling/ingesting harmful chemicals and driving with a suspended license. She was released on her own recognizance.
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