Wal-Mart heiress accused of DWI in Parker County, Texas

The Weatherford Democrat reports that Alice Walton...ast Friday -- her 62nd birthday -- and accused of driving drunk.

A Texas Highway Patrol officer stopped Walton on Interstate 20 in a construction zone in Weatherford, the paper said. The trooper concluded, after administering a field sobriety test, that she was intoxicated.

Walton refused to submit to a breath-analysis test, the paper said.

She spent Friday night in the Parker County jail and was released about 8:40 a.m. on Saturday, the paper said.

Alice Walton is a daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and one of the heirs to his vast fortune.

Forbes magazine last mont....9 billion, placing her at No. 10 on the annual Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. (Two other Waltons also made the top 10 : Christy Walton, Alice's sister-in-law and the widow of John T. Walton, a brother of Alice's who died in 2005, was estimated to be worth $24.5 billion, good enough for No. 6 on the list. John Walton, another brother of Alice's, came in at No. 9, with an estimated net worth of $21.1 billion.)

According to The Democrat , Alice Walton was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol in Arkansas in 1998.

Alice Walton Arrested for DWI, Held Overnight On Birthday

Alice Walton, the second-richest woman in America, was arrested on the charge of driving while intoxicated and held in jail on the night of her 62nd birthday last Friday, October 7.

The daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton was stopped by the Texas Highway Patrol in Weatherford, Texas for speeding. “During the stop, indications were that Ms. Walton had been drinking. Sobriety tests were given, she cooperated, and they indicated intoxication,” according to Texas Senior Trooper and public information officer Gary M. Rozzell.

Upon arrest, Walton refused a blood-alcohol test. “Technically, if you’re driving in our state and an officer has probable cause, you are required to submit to a breathalyzer,” Rozzell said. Separate from any criminal procedures, an Administrative License Revocation hearing will be called that could suspend Walton’s license for 90 days on a first offense.

This is not the first time Walton was arrested for driving while intoxicated. She was reportedly convicted on four counts in a drunken driving case in May 1998 in Springdale, Arkansas. Police officers testified in court that at the scene of her car accident, Walton said “Do you know who I am?” and also refused then to consent to a blood-alcohol test, according to the Associated Press.

Walton, whose net worth of $20.9 billion puts her 10th on the latest Forbes 400 Richest Americans list, spent Friday night in the Parker County Jail. She was arrested at 11:12pm and was released the next morning at 8:39am on $1,000 bond, according to the records of the Parker...ty Sheriff.

Her attorney Dee J. Kelly released this statement: “Ms. Walton was pulled over by a patrolman with the Department of Public Safety for driving 71 miles per hour in an unattended 55 miles per hour construction zone. She was returning home from a birthday dinner with friends at a Ft. Worth restaurant. She accepts full responsibility for this unfortunate incident and deeply regrets it.”

Walton is set to open her Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas next month. Considered one of the world’s preeminent collections of American art from colonial time to the present, the museum will include works donated by Walton herself and the Walton Family Foundation, perhaps with additional gifts from other private collectors.

Walton graduated from Trinity College, in San Antonio, with degrees in Economics and Finance, and now runs a horse ranch in central Texas.

kimrachell	she's worth billions and can't hire a driver?
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Shyra	SCNDLS said: kimrachell said: she's worth billions and can't hire a driver? That's what I was thinking. She has that "alcoholic" look.
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