A controversial town official in wealthy Nantucket was caught slurring her words with several open cans of White Claw in her car in embarrassing bodycam footage of a DUI arrest.

Planning Director Leslie Woodson Snell’s arrest sparked outrage in the well-heeled Massachusetts island when her contract was still renewed months later, allowing her to keep her $203,000-a-year job.

Now, video shows how Snell, 47, was found glassy-eyed and swaying after crashing a Jeep SUV into a street sign near a restaurant she admits she’d been drinking at in Yarmouth.

The footage starts with a passerby in a Red Sox hoodie standing next to her vehicle, telling reporting officers that the female driver seems confused.

“I don’t know what’s going on with her. She doesn’t really know where she’s at,” he tells the cops.

Yarmouth police officer Samantha Voltolini reports that Snell had “glassy, bloodshot eyes” and “a strong odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from her breath.”

“I also observed a moderate odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from the vehicle,” Voltolini wrote in the police report, seen by the Nantucket Current.

Asked how much she had to drink at Giardinos, an adjacent restaurant, Snell slurred as she claimed it had been “just a couple drinks.”

Officers found an open bottle of vodka in the backseat, alcohol nips in her purse and several open cans of White Claw in the center console and driver’s seat door.

Asked to “be honest” about how much she had drunk, Snell again insisted she had only a couple — even as she struggled to recall where she lived.

“It was difficult to gain information from Woodson due to her speaking incoherently,” the officer noted in the report.

The planning official also failed multiple field sobriety tests and again refused to take a breathalyzer test once at the precinct.

She was arraigned on April 21, and reached a plea deal a week later, agreeing to forfeit her driver’s license for 45 days, complete a driver alcohol education program and pay $600 in court fees.

“I deeply regret the event that occurred off-island on April 20 while I was attending to a personal commitment,” Snell told the Inquirer and Mirror in June. 

“I accept full responsibility for my actions and the matter has been resolved.”

The case sparked outrage, however, when Snell’s contract was renewed in late June despite her arrest, following a unanimous vote from the Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission (NP&EDC), where she has worked for the past two decades.

While public officials initially claimed Snell wouldn’t receive a pay rise, her new contract allegedly includes a one-time payment of $7,829 on top of her $195,520 base salary, amounting to a 4% bump, according to the Daily Mail.

Snell’s position was previously the subject of major local controversy when the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office ruled the NP&EDC had violated the state’s Open Meeting Law during her hiring process, the Nantucket Current reported at the time.

Stephen Butler, a former Nantucket building inspector, alleged that he was threatened with disciplinary action and eventually forced out in 2018 after questioning Snell’s process.

He was replaced with what Butler called a “toady” inspector, he told the Daily Mail.

Butler’s wife, Karla, also accused Snell in an open letter of creating a toxic work environment and interfering with permit decisions.

“The interference, contempt, and attempted manipulation to move permits to the top of [the] pile of people she wanted to appease was constant,” Karla wrote.

Snell has denied the allegations of favoritism and abuse of power, accusing her critics of “personal” attacks in a previous statement to the Nantucket Current.

“It’s part of an ongoing public attack orchestrated by a few people attempting to discredit my professional reputation, as well documented by multiple sources,” she said.

Neither Snell nor the town of Nantucket responded to requests for comment.