Erin Brockovich, whose life story as a legal clerk leading a landmark class action lawsuit was portrayed by Julia Roberts in her Oscar winning performance, was arrested on Friday after she allegedly drunkenly drove her boat on a Nevada lake.
According to authorities, Brockovich had more than two times the legal .08 blood alcohol limit after she had trouble docking her boat on Lake Mead near Las Vegas, New York Daily News reported.
Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Edwin Lyngar told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Brockovich was struggling to put the boat in the slip.
Brockovich, of Agoura Hills, California, was released on 1,000-dollar-bond.
A male passenger reportedly went along for the boat ride but she was alone when she tried to dock the vessel.
The 52-year-old legal clerk and environmental activist's discovery of the poisoning led to the power company Pacific Gas and Electric Co. paying a 333-million-dollar-settlement to the sick residents of Hinkley.