Brewer surrendered to begin his six-month jail term. The judge requested Brewer return to court for a June 12 progress report on the other portion of his sentence.

Conroy dismissed the prosecutors’ request for Brewer’s punishment to include a strike under the state’s three-strikes sentencing law.

Deputies spoke with Howard, who said she was driving. Deputies then approached the vehicle and saw a half-gallon of rum that was half empty in the vehicle, Rappaport said, and Howard also told deputies she drank four beers that night.

Deputies saw Howard had “glassy eyes and a strong odor of an alcohol beverage on her breath,” according to charging documents. EMS personnel began to treat Howard and placed her on a backboard, and deputies performed a sobriety test, which she allegedly failed, charging documents state.

Howard was taken to Prince George’s Hospital Center where she was interviewed by deputies. Charging documents state that blood was taken from Howard and sent to the Maryland State Police Lab to be analyzed.

Rappaport said Howard’s blood alcohol content was .17 percent the night of the accident.
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But Bill Rigby said Zirk had many opportunities to prevent the accident, noting that Zirk’s mother had begged him not to drive that evening.

“Nobody forced him to drink. Nobody forced him to get in that car and drive off,” Bill Rigby said. “If there had been stiffer penalties, maybe my daughter would still be with me.”

An Army veteran, Angela Rigby, 33, had opened the Red, White and Beautiful Salon in Fairfield just a year prior to the accident. She loved animals and also left behind a brother and a 10-year-old daughter, Dasani.

A prosecutor was not there for the case, and Delaware Department of Justice spokesman Jason Miller said the Attorney General’s Office does not normally prosecute first-offense DUI cases heard in Justice of the Peace Court.

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