Human remains found near spot where SUV plunged off cliff

UPDATE: 5/10/2018 1:39 p.m. Authorities in Northern California say a resident found a pair of jeans and human remains inside a girl’s shoe on a beach near the spot where a woman drove her large family off a cliff in March.

The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department says DNA tests will be conducted on the remains.

It says a crew Thursday will search the area in Westport, California, where the remains were found a day earlier.

Sarah and Jennifer Hart and their six adopted children were believed to be in the family’s SUV when it plunged off a cliff in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco.

Five bodies were found March 26 but three of their children were not immediately recovered.

A female body was found in April but has not been identified.

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Authorities say a woman who drove off California cliff last month in an SUV carrying her wife and children was drunk.

California Patrol Capt. Bruce Carpenter said Friday that toxicology tests found Jennifer Hart had an alcohol level of .102.

California drivers are considered drunk with a level of 0.08 or higher.

Carpenter says toxicology tests also found that her wife Sarah Hart and two of their adopted children had “a significant amount” of an ingredient commonly found in the allergy drug Benadryl, which can make people sleepy.

The Harts and three of their children were found dead after the car plunged into the Pacific Ocean on March 26

Two more are missing and another body has been found but not identified.