on June 2nd 2024 officers on patrol observed a vehicle driving recklessly on the road the vehicle exhibited signs of dangerous Behavior including overp speeding and failing to maintain proper control concerned about the risks associated with such driving the officers decided to initiate a traffic stop to investigate further and ensure the safety of the driver and others on the road how are you my name is Officer Ste City Police Department the reason I'm pulling you over is when you made that turn back back there you were on the complete wrong side of the road I know I'm not from here and I realized that I was going okay okay all right well do you have your uh license registration insurance for me this is my brother's car okay so I don't know about the rest but there's my license I'm okay where are you coming from tonight a wedding a wedding where was that wedding at the yach club the yach club okay the vehicle came to a stop after officers signaled it to pull over as the officers approached the vehicle they noted that the driver appeared to be a woman before they could question her a bystander arrived at the scene and provided important information I apologize no it's all right I'm not from here I don't do this not my thing do you have uh Insurance um you should I can give you my insurance on my phone now the insurance for this vehicle this I don't know it's my brother's on a boat in the military how long were you at the wedding for um from 5 what's that from 5 okay from 5 okay I got you do you have anything to drink tonight I did I have a few drinks you had a few drinks okay I'm not going to lie I'm sorry okay all right I just want to get home okay I don't know I haven't look is this no no I don't believe this is I can give you my insurance my personal insurance okay and wanted to provide these details to Aid the investigation armed with new information the officers proceeded to engage with the driver when they approached the vehicle they noticed a strong odor of alcohol emanating from her breath this observation prompted them to ask her directly if she had consumed alcohol the driver admitted to having three alcoholic drinks earlier at a wedding dot based on her admission and the observations of erratic driving the officers suspected that the driver might be under the influence of alcohol well no we won't need that here you go you can have that back just sit tight for me for one second all right come get me okay well we'll see what we can do all right why why would you in trouble why would you get in trouble no because I had three drinks I was at a wedding like how many drinks did you have I had three you had three drinks okay all right well let me redo this in and I'll get right back to you all right I'm sorry okay I went the wrong way I'm sorry I'm not from here the roads are confusing here okay all right just sit tight for me for one second all right 64 to P out I got a Florida Driver's License gold [Applause] [Applause] [Music] what you on the phone my mom okay well if you don't mind you can just hang that up for a second for me what I'm going to have you do is I'm I'm going to have you step out we're going to walk over to the side over here I'm going to check your eyes all right they explained the situation to her and requested that she perform a series of field sobriety tests to assess her level of impairment initially the driver agreed to cooperate and the officers began with the horizontal Gaye nagus hgn test so what I'll have you do so I'm going to have you stand right here all right so I'm going to have you do is I'm going to check your eyes right so want you to do is just put your hands down by your side no no no I'm not doing this you don't isn't it well it depends but I mean you don't have to follow through with all the procedures okay but I mean it's pretty simple all you're going to have to do is just follow the tip of my finger all right so I just want you stand with your feet together your hands down by your side and you're just going to follow the tip my finger with your eyes and your eyes only do you understand I don't want your head to move at all right just your eyes again right my A's a doctor and she's coming okay well that's fine where's your like I said all you're going to do is follow the tip of my finger right here right heard a partial transmission trying which checks for involuntary eye movements indicative of intoxication however as the testing progressed the driver refused to perform any additional sobriety exercises again you're just going to keep following to my finger right yeah look at my finger over here right I am I am I can tell you're not looking at the tip of my finger give me a breath cuz I have anxiety okay it's all right I'm supped anxiety medicine and I don't okay you're just going to keep following my finger all right all right you're just going to keep on yeah I had the wrong L all right I'm sorry okay my family's coming please please so what I'm going to have you do is I'm going to ask you if you want to do a couple more tests no I don't my family's coming you don't want to do any of those tests my family's coming okay please I'm sorry here let me see your phone and your Vape we're going to put that on the back of the truck it's not weed I promise it's not we we're just going to put it down on the back of the okay yeah but at least we're going to put your phone down right your what's your what's your first name H it it's probably in your best interest sorry it's probably in your best interest to do the tests no she became argumentative insisting that the officers let her go and questioning the necessity of the tests she repeatedly emphasized her role as a school teacher pleading for leniency and claiming she did not deserve to be detained can I wait for my family though I'm not going to have your family come up here no they already said they're coming no it doesn't make a difference but it makes me can I please I'm sorry I'm not this person so what happened is so what happened is uh officer conducted one test of standard field sobriety and if you refusing to do the rest of the tests he doesn't have anything else to go off of to see if you're too intoxicated to drive or not I won't drive anymore I had three drinks at the wedding I won't drink anymore I'm sorry I won't my family's going to what we're doing is we're here to assess if you're able to drive right no I won't drive anymore I won't like he was just saying it's in your best I drove the wrong way I'm the one way cuz I'm not familiar with the town that that's okay that's okay I'm sorry but we but we what we have to do is follow through with what we have to do in our our proced but I won't drive anymore that's okay he needs he needs to basically what you're doing is Pigeon calling him to make and making a decision on one one factor alone okay um it's totally up to you if you if you don't want to do any more but you're you're kind of putting him you're putting everybody in not trying to put you in a bad position I'm in heels that hurt my feet for the last 5 hours like I told you earlier that I've been at the wedding since 4: I'll do whatever test but I'm sorry okay but so you want to do the test it's just two simple tests I'll explain it to you I'll demonstrate it and then I'll have you do it all right I got to wait for my family to give me the okay we don't want them coming out here it's not going to be safe no they're not going to be able to give you any legal advice and they're not going to be able to come up here they're saying they're coming that that's fine I'm going to have them parked somewhere else and this is our investigation now I'm sorry I'm sorry we understand that but we're just trying to make sure that we're doing our job and doing it effectively no and I appreciate that and thank you for that and we're trying to give you the be the most opportunity to help yourself out the officers explained that her refusal refusal to complete the field sobriety tests combined with her erratic driving and the strong smell of alcohol on her breath provided sufficient grounds for arrest I appreciate it but can I please wait can I wait for my I understand but like we said they're not going to they shouldn't come out here and it's not going to help they're not going to give it to help you in any can I please wait for my family so I feel safe do you want to do these tests can I wait for my family so I feel safe we're either going to do the tests or he has he has a decision to make M that's just kind of where we're at okay so do you want to do the test that I can demonstrate I'll show you and then we'll just have you do them I have high heels on that I've been hurting my feet for the last 5 hours you can you can take your heels off to do the test no because the road's going to hurt my feet too it's up to you we it like he was saying it gives me an easier chance to help your case if you want to do these tests if you don't want to do them it's a refusal I don't want to refuse anything but like I don't want but that's meaning not doing the test is I'm a teacher I'm not here's here's here's a here's our last option that I can offer you right now he can transport you back to the police department just listen listen just listen your M you're not going to be under arrest you're just being detained and then you can run the tests at the police department on on the the concrete floor I know I've never I'm a teacher I never been doing this concrete floor Police Department no what do you want to do I want to go home well we got to at least figure this out first before anything else happens all right it's up to you if you don't want to do them like you said we can do them back at the station we can do them here bang him out real quick you don't even have to enter the station you can do in the parking garage what do you need me to do it's going to be two tests it's going to be stand on one leg and the other one's going to be a walk in a straight line you're going to make me a flamingo pre a what a flamingo I'm from Florida sorry okay you saw my license I did you were right about that soing I'm not that's the only other thing that we got to do and if not if you don't want to do any more of the test that's fine but we uh then him and I are going to okay you need me to be a flamingo no do you want to do the test that's what you need me to do then we're going to walk up front onto in front of your car yeah all right look follow me can I ask my family they're not going to be able to give you any we kind of explained everything to you already can I talk to my family please can we do the test do you want the test or not we're not going to stand out here on the boulevard all night okay all right I have no shoot got that's fine so I'm going to have you do is what I want you to do is put your right foot in front of your left foot and your hands down by your side all right if you don't mind for this test I'm going to take your vape and I'm going to put it on the hood of the car all right so like I said I want you to put your right foot in front of your left foot and your hands down by your side okay do you understand that you can go ahead and do that now if you want you can switch your feet so make sure you put your right foot in front of your left foot and your hands down by your side no I want that foot first okay well then I want you to keep your hands down by your side and I want you to remain there for the duration of the instructions I'm going to explain all right no I don't want to do this I want to wait for my family you don't want to do this at all I want to wait for my family okay well your family's not going to come over here they're coming it doesn't matter they're not going to be coming over here this is the last time to happen I'm telling you exactly what's going to happen they can show up here and I'm going to send them off to another Direction do you want to do these tests or not no all right what I'm going to have you do is I'm going to have you turn around all right I'm going to have you turn around for me all right I want you to face your vehicle ma'am can you please turn around for me despite her protests and arguments the officers maintained their composure and followed protocol they informed her of the charges against her and placed her under arrest during the arrest process the driver continued to argue repeatedly asking to be let go and citing her profession as a reason for leniency I need you to turn around and place your hands behind the GU please all right now we need to what I want you to do is turn around and face away from me put your hands behind your back and interlock your fingers all right I want you to put your palms together there you go I can't see can you give me a light CH there we go there you go you're good there hey bro what else in your vehicle do you need my purse my Chanel my vape your Vape right here your phone's on the back of the car I can't have that with you it'll be it'll be with your property you can't smoke it have one for it's it's probably it's probably not in your best interest to have it right now you're just going to take a deep breath all right thank you what we're going to do is we're going to walk to the back of this car all right all right I'm going have you I want you to walk on the pavement so you're not stepping in the Rocks all right my yeah we can put your shoes on you'll be able to slip right into them I'll grab your shoes put them on she wants to put them on so what I'm going to do is I'm going to walk to the back vehicle going to put you in the back this time being place under arrest for driving on to the influencer alcohol and drug ma'am pleas please walk with us make everything real easy the more you work with us the easier we can get you in and out working with you I'm working with you I'm say it's easy to put your left leg up yep put your left leg up and kind of slide on in there phone we're going to grab everything you need all right no I need my phone I need so you right there I'm going to re around you please I can't do this and I'm going to grab the seat belt we're going to buckle you up right please pleasee after securing her in the patrol vehicle the officers transported her to the police station for further processing during the transport the driver remained argumentative pleading with the officers to reconsider her arrest please I'm begging you that a little too TI I know I need to to my family you're going to be able to talk to them but what right now we're going to go back to the station all right please don't please don't are you is that anything hurt your hands are good all right no please don't do that please I have your phone right up here all right call M we'll be able to call her once we get back [Applause] where are the uh the keys to your vehicle in my purse they're in your purse where's my can you get we're going to get your purse all right no from my baby I need to get home to my baby I can't do that the more you work with us the easier we'll get you in and out I promise someone will be able to come to pick and we you I can't do this okay well this is the uh the keys to the car should be in that purse you going to be good you want me to shoot her back um just give me that there's not much in this car something it's her brother's car I believe her brother's I think just what she said I don't see the keys see that down down there yeah got [Applause] take this there you want somebody to come back with you just cuz she might be a little emotional yeah well I mean that should be all right if I need anything I'll call over the [Music] radio I have your purse with me all right yeah it's up here not right now all right what we're going to do is we're going to head back 64 to [Music] 10 10 I'll have one on transport starting mileage 14161 where you so we're going to head right back to the police station right over here it's right over the other side of this bridge yeah it's going to be right on the other side of this bridge right here uh-huh yeah right here and seea we can once we get in there and we get everything situated and getting going we'll be I'll let you be able to call your family all right so you don't have to worry about the vehicle right now right now we'll work on getting you in and out get you out of here 64 to 10 64 10 end of relay ending mileage the same can you also open up the West Side Sou work all right we're just going to walk you in this room right here we're going to start doing some paperwork and we're going to try and make it happen as quick as possible all right do you have a family member that has not been drinking that would be able to come pick you up my mom no but she doesn't have a license and she my daughter my aunt parents supposed to come get okay has she been drinking at all your aunt okay okay all right just sit tight for me one second upon arrival at the police station the officers began the formal process of documenting the incident and completing the necessary paperwork as part of standard procedure they requested that the driver submit to a chemical test such as a breathalyzer to measure her blood alcohol concentration baak [Applause] [Applause] you just one for now all right does that help a little bit calm the nerves a little bit I have aniet I take it yeah all right should just sit there for a second one second I'll help you out I don't like I said I have your phone your nicotine your purse if you want just put both help I can get out I can get out I to this door you be able to take your steps up I got you it's just kind of our protocol all right let me open this door what I want you to do is just have a seat on the bench right there all right so before you sit before you sit I'm going to take those handcuffs put the front a little more comfortable for you all right my big so I'm going teach get in trouble at work so all I'm going to do is just have these come R around in front all right how are they feeling are they a little tight are they a little comfortable they're a little tight I'm going leave that one a little looser for you I want my St I want my vape so you're not going to be able to hit your Vape in here but I promise it's in the front seat of my car I'm getting anxiety go so you can go ahead and have a sit down there you go just take deep breaths take medic attack do you want me to call you Ms no I need to call my family hey so we'll get this all going and then we'll be able to give them a call I promise all right just take some deep breaths just breathe breathe with me so what we're going have to do is just take some breaths what's your first name again it's Brook Brook just take some deep breaths with no you have to do more I believe you it's just it's not going to go in your hands just go right in the middle it's just our protocol that we have to do all right I know it seems I know and it seems intimidating but it's not that's it I'm not a bad person I pulled over I stopped I do what you told me to do you're right you did you're not a bad person sorry the camera later the female appeared in court to face charges of reckless driving driving Under the Influence taking wrong turns and refusing to submit to a chemical test the court reviewed evidence presented by law enforcement including her erratic driving admission of alcohol consumption refusal to cooperate with sobriety testing and failure to adhere to legal requirements these actions highlighted the severity of her offenses if you enjoyed this video be sure to hit the like button share your thoughts in the comments section and don't forget to subscribe to our channel to stay updated on our future videos click on the notification Bell icon after subscribing thank you for watching and see you in the next video