Jailed in Wedding Gown, Texas Bride Complains About Web Photo
A Texas bride arrested on her wedding night after her new husband was pulled over in March 14 drunk driving sweep, dubbed “March Madness,” in Harris County had to spend the night in jail.
But that wasn’t the worst of it. A photo taken by an unknown man of Jade Puckett sitting in a Clear Lake courtroom the next day, still in her wedding dress, has been plastered all over the Internet. Strangers haven’t hesitated to make castigating comments, and some of the degrading names she has been called were racial in nature, she tells the Houston Chronicle.
Puckett, 26, pleaded guilty to public intoxication, in exchange for time served. (Authorities say they charged her when she became belligerent after the car in which she was riding as a passenger with her new husband was pulled over in the sweep. His driving while intoxicated case has not yet been resolved.)
However, she has filed a complaint concerning the photograph with the Harris County Precinct 8 Constable’s office, which is investigating.
“It had turned the best day of my life into my greatest nightmare,” she says in the complaint.
Although Puckett hasn’t officially complained to the Harris County Sheriff’s Department, it will also investigate her claim that she was intentionally humiliated while spending the night in jail there, the Chronicle reports in another article.
Puckett says she wasn’t allowed to change out of her wedding dress, and complains that male officers several times opened the door of the cell into which she was put with more than a dozen other women to point her out.
Updated at 10:25 p.m. to include subsequent Chronicle coverage.
