BOSTON -- Lawrence City Councilor Grisel Silva was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly rear-ending an SUV being driven by her estranged husband at a Lawrence intersection.
Silva, 35, was charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to commit a felony, malicious destruction of personal property over $250 and operating to endanger with intent of causing a motor vehicle accident.
Nelson Silva, 29, the councilor’s husband, told the responding Lawrence police officer he was driving his girlfriend’s car when his wife ran into him at the intersection of Jackson and Avon streets after 6 p.m., the Eagle Tribune reported.
Nelson Silva told Lawrence police that his wife was following him in her car while calling him and sending him angry text messages on her cell phone, according to the police report.
The report included a message alluding to Councilor Silva’s knowledge of her husband’s involvement with another woman.
Councilor Silva blamed the collision on her husband, telling police she struck the vehicle when her husband stopped abruptly in front of her car, the paper reported.
She was arrested in her home later last night after police finished their investigation of the incident and determined the felony nature of the charges, said the Lawrence police chief, according to the paper.
Silva, who is in her second term as city councilor, was hospitalized in April after taking sleeping pills in what police called a suicide attempt.
She also was the subject of a state Ethics Commission investigation into her alleged involvement in a gun possession incident involving her daughter.
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