Carly Hicks was driving home from a friend’s baby shower late last July in Union City, Tennessee. She had a few airline-shooter bottles of Jack Daniel’s in her car, but they were unopened. A State Trooper pulled her over assuming she may have been drinking.

The officer’s body camera captured their interaction and showed the officer putting Hicks through a field sobriety test for a DUI, and then asking about marijuana.

“Is there any marijuana in the vehicle?” the officer asked Hicks. “Because I can smell it, that’s why I was asking.”

Hicks and her boyfriend said no, and admitted to smoking four days ago in their apartment, but both were sober. Despite passing the field sobriety test, the officer tells Hicks she has to have someone get her car. Hicks tells the officer she can drive, but the officer insisted someone else drive.

“Based on what we just saw, that’s a no,” the officer said.

Hicks’s phone call triggered the officer

To avoid further conflict, Hicks called her dad to get her car and told her dad the officer wasn’t letting her drive home even though the officer didn’t find anything in her car.

When he heard her say that to her dad, the officer pulled out his handcuffs and aggressively approached her.

“Alright, you’re going to be under arrest,” he said. The officer explained to her father that she “performed poorly” on a field sobriety test, and was going to jail with a DUI. She spent 36 hours behind bars, underwent a blood test, and waited to speak with a judicial commissioner.

Months later, her blood test results showed she was sober. No drugs or alcohol was detected in her system.

“You’re being accused of endangering innocent lives on the road. I would never do anything like that to anyone,” said Hicks during an interview with WSMV. “My mugshot went around on display. Just tarnishing my reputation. As if I would put people’s lives in danger on the road.”

She wasn’t the only sober driver arrested with a DUI charge

Tennessee is proving to be a risky state for sober drivers, as over 609 drivers were wrongfully arrested for drunk driving last year.

Another driver wrongfully arrested last year, Labreesha Batey, is pushing her lawmakers to put a spotlight on the issue.

“I’ve since learned that, due to your work, and everything that is going on, that over 600 have endured similar to what I have experienced. So for me, it was like, ‘How do we go about change in this area?’” Batey said.