I am with you as a gut reaction - speeding ticket on Friday, suspicion of DUI, lab result on Monday so additional charges. Except for one thing: the Monday June 17 charge is not “traffic” like the speeding ticket. What could be so damaging that someone risked committing a felony to scrub this record? What would undermine Ford’s credibility so much? A DUI as a college kid, who cares. She was not a minor at the time of this criminal charge and the public does have a right to know.
Perhaps it wasn’t just alcohol. Maybe she was using coke, pot, or any other drug of choice. Those typically still brought charges to users who were caught, even in more recent years.