Essex prosecutor arrested for drunk driving still trying cases

After celebrating her 30th birthday in March, Assistant Essex County Prosecutor Bryashia Atchison was arrested for drunk driving after Edgewater police found her passed out in a parking lot with her car driven over a curb.

Atchison told police officers that she’d been drinking in Edgewater before being questioned around 8:20 PM on Saturday. March 8, and seemed surprised to learn she was still there – she thought she might be in Newark.

“You kind of told me something just now that’s a little alarming, so I have to perform some tests on you,” Patrolman Evan Bringas told Atchison. “You kind of just admitted to me that you were drunk.”…

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