DUDLEY — On Friday, March 13, 2026, at approximately 4:09 p.m., Officer Dylan Reney of the Dudley Police Department said dispatch alerted officers on duty to multiple calls reporting a vehicle that was driving erratically, crossing over the lane lines and in a ditch at one point.
(The account and quotations in this article were sourced from the printed Personnel Narrative of Officer Dylan Reney for the incident and do not reflect any political perspective or personal opinion of News Link Live, which is strictly a business entity.)
Officer Reney said dispatch identified the vehicle as a gray Subaru with Massachusetts plates.
“Dispatch informed us that the vehicle was expired nonrenewable and that the owner of the vehicle had an expired license that was also nonrenewable,” Officer Reney said. “I then headed toward the area where the vehicle was reported. While on the way, the vehicle passed me heading east on West Main Street in the area of 183 West Main Street.”
Officer Reney said he then informed Sergeant Keith Remillard that the suspect vehicle had passed him and was heading in his direction.
“I then activated my blue lights and turned around to try and catch up to the vehicle,” Officer Reney said. “I observed Sergeant Remillard pull out of 157 West Main Street with his blue lights in front of me. Sergeant Remillard attempted to pull the vehicle over at 128 West Main Street. I then observed the vehicle continue to drive east on West Main Street with Sergeant Remillard and myself behind it.”
The vehicle then pulled over to the side of the road and stopped in the area of Progress Avenue and West Main Street.
“After coming to a stop, the vehicle then pulled back out into the roadway and continued driving east on West Main Street with Sergeant Remillard and myself still behind the vehicle,” Officer Reney said. “The vehicle then finally stopped in the middle of the roadway in the area of West Main Street and Prospect Avenue.”
Officer Reney and Sergeant Remillard then approached the vehicle.
“The operator was identified as Dianis Sanchez,” Officer Reney said. “Sanchez was the owner of the vehicle.”
According to police, Dianis Y. Sanchez, 28, is a resident of Auburn, MA.
“Sergeant Remillard spoke with Sanchez and Sanchez was eventually asked to exit the vehicle,” Officer Reney said. “After Sanchez exited the vehicle, I observed Sgt. Remillard help her walk towards the back of her vehicle. Sanchez was very unstable on her feet while walking and appeared to struggle with her balance. At the back of the vehicle, Sanchez said that she had Guillain-Barre disease which is why she struggles walking.”
“Sergeant Remillard had Sanchez perform the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test,” Officer Reney said.
According to findlaw.com, the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test is a field sobriety test where an officer has an individual follow an object (such as a pen tip or pen light) with his/her eyes. The HGN test checks for the involuntary jerking of one’s eyes as they gaze side to side. This involuntary jerkiness is said to increase while under the influence of alcohol.
“No other standardized field sobriety tests could be performed due to how unstable Sanchez was on her feet,” Officer Reney said. “It was explained to Sanchez that she could not drive the vehicle due to it being unregistered and her being unlicensed as her license expired.”
The officers then informed Sanchez that they were going to have to tow her vehicle.
“I then went back to my cruiser to begin to issue Sanchez her citations,” Officer Reney said. “Once back at my cruiser, Sergeant Remillard called for me to come back to the vehicle. When I got back to the vehicle, I observed that her handbag was open and inside the bag were between 10 to 20 Jose Cuervo nips (sealed).”
Officer Reney said Sanchez was then asked to wait in the back of a cruiser until her vehicle was towed because she was unsteady on her feet at the time.
“I then helped Sanchez walk to cruiser 139,” Officer Reney said. “Halfway to the cruiser, Sanchez fell over onto the ground. As I was helping Sanchez back to her feet, I could smell a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on her breath. I then asked Sanchez if she had anything to drink today. Sanchez told me that she had four nips.”
Officer Reney then asked Sanchez to take a Preliminary Breath Test (PBT), a portable breathalyzer used during roadside OUI investigations to estimate blood alcohol concentration (i.e., BAC).
“Sanchez agreed,” Officer Reney said. “Webster Police Officer Melissa Bak was then requested to the scene with a PBT as we did not have any PBT’s available at the current time. Officer Bak then had Sanchez take the PBT and the results were a 0.230. At this point, I believed Sanchez was drunk and placed her under arrest. Due to her unsteadiness and having to use her hands to hold on to someone or something to walk, I placed her in handcuffs in the front of her body, checked for proper tightness, and double locked them.”
Sanchez’s vehicle was then towed from the scene, and she was transported to the Dudley Police Department for booking.
“At the station, Sanchez was booked and photographed,” Officer Reney said. “Fingerprints could not be taken due to how unsteady on her feet she was. Officer [Luis] Pacheco read Sanchez the statutory rights and consent form. Sanchez agreed to take the breath test and a 15-minute observation period began. After the 15-minute observation period, Office Pacheco gave Sanchez the breath test. The breath test results showed that Sanchez had a BAC of 0.27. Sanchez’s license was then seized, and she was given her notice of suspension.”
Dianis Y. Sanchez, 28, of Auburn, was charged with the following violations/offenses:
- Unlicensed Operation of a Motor vehicle
- OUI-Liquor
- Negligent Operation of a Motor Vehicle
- Marked Lanes Violation
- Unregistered Motor Vehicle
“Bail Commissioner Jen Caissie was contacted, and bail was set at personal recognizance. Sanchez was then transported to Webster Police Department for holding,” Officer Reney said.
Sanchez was arraigned in Dudley District Court on March 13, 2026. Her arraignment was then continued to March 16, 2026.
Following her March 13 court appearance, Sanchez was released on personal recognizance.
Sanchez’s next court date is a pretrial hearing on May 8, 2026.
Disclaimer: If you are wondering why the incident in this story took place in March, that’s because I had to file FOIA request(s) to obtain the court documents. FOIAs are time-consuming.
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