A former candidate for Burlington County commissioner demanded the story of her 2022 drunk driving arrest removed from the New Jersey Globe and threatened to take action if it wasn’t taken down.
“I know people,” she said. “I don’t want this to end badly for you.”
Seven weeks before the 2022 primary, Gallagher was charged with drunk driving after she blew a .21 blood alcohol content on a breathalyzer test –more than twice the legal limit. The New Jersey Globe reported the incident one month later after receiving copies of police reports through a request filed under the Open Public Records Act.
She drove nearly 30 miles in the wrong direction after leaving a friend’s home in Hammonton, winding up in Absecon, not Moorestown.
Gallagher pled guilty to a DWI on December 19 and was forced to use an interlock device for three months and twelve hours in an intoxicated driving program. She paid over $1,000 in fines and fees.
She sought the GOP nomination for county office in 2022 on a ticket with Ian Smith, but lost the primary to Jeffrey Fortune by twelve percentage points.