The arrest marks at least the fourth time Beauregard has been charged with drunken driving.
WEST SPRINGFIELD -- Anne C. Beauregard, assistant principal at Easthampton High School, was placed on paid administrative leave last week after a drunken driving arrest in West Springfield.
Anne C. Beauregard
Beauregard, 51, of 56 Squassick Road in West Springfield, was arrested during a traffic stop on North Boulevard shortly before 2 a.m. on Jan. 31, police records show. She was charged with operating under the influence of liquor (second offense).
She denied the charge in Springfield District Court, where she was also cited for a marked lanes violation and driving without a license. Her next court appearance will be in March.
Easthampton Superintendent School Superintendent Nancy Follansbee told the Daily Hampshire Gazette [subscription] that Beauregard was placed on paid administrative leave on the day of her arrest.
Beauregard has worked at the high school since 2009, according to her LinkedIn profile. She previously served as director of alternative education and as interim principal at Pittsfield High School.
Despite the second offense charge appearing in the West Springfield police department's arrest log [pdf], the Gazette's Dan Crowley reports that her driving record indicates at least three other incidents. She was convicted of drunken driving in Ashburnham in 1986 and in Grafton in 1982.
More recently, according to a report in the Cape Cod Times, Beauregard was arrested in Brewster in July 2011 and charged with operating under the influence of liquor (third offense), negligent driving, and an additional traffic violation. She denied those charges at her arraignment in Orleans District Court and was ultimately acquitted on the drunken driving charge. However, Crowley reports, she was convicted on the negligent operation charge and lost her license for 60 days. She was placed on probation until October of 2012.
Her refusal to take a Breathalyzer test after her arrest in West Springfield resulted in an automatic 5-year suspension of her driver's license. Under state law, any driver with two prior drunken driving incidents who refuses a breath test faces an automatic 5-year license suspension.
Drivers with three or more previous drunken driving incidents who refuse to take a breath test face an automatic lifetime license suspension.