Sen. Lugar's Wife Arrested for DUI

Charlene Lugar, wife of Senate Foreign Relations ranking member Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), was arrested Wednesday night for drunken driving after a traffic accident in McLean, Va.

According to a spokesman for the Fairfax County Police Department, at 6:18 Wednesday night a patrol officer stopped Charlene Lugar at the intersection of Old Dominion Drive and Dominion Reserve Drive in McLean.

Fairfax County Police say an officer stopped 76-year-old Charlene Lugar Wednesday evening at the McLean intersection after seeing damage to her car and smoke coming from the hood. Police later determined that she also hit an unattended parked car about two miles away from the traffic stop.

Following the stop, Lugar was arrested for driving while intoxicated and taken to the county's adult detention center where she was processed.

Sen. Lugar issued a statement, saying: "At about 6:30 p.m. last evening, November 18, Mrs. Lugar had a traffic accident in our McLean, Virginia neighborhood. A charge has been filed and a court appearance is scheduled for January. No other persons were in her car or the unattended car she hit. Thankfully, no one was injured. We are deeply sorry and embarrassed that this accident has occurred.

Charlene Lugar has been released from the county's detention facility, according to his office.

A trial is scheduled for Jan. 8 in Fairfax County General District Court.