welcome back to the DUI Channel we are in Urbana Illinois we on January 6 2020 at 5:48 p.m. in herbana a police officer detected a strong odor of cannabis while driving through the Circle K parking lot located on North Cunningham a the smell became extremely strong as the officer passed a light blue 2003 Mercury Grand Marquee that was stationary at a gas pump the officer then turned his vehicle around and approached the driver as his investigation begins is this m okay I couldn't help notice when I drove by a strong load of cannabis coming from here okay uhhuh so understanding that cannabis is legal now yeah still not legal to have within your car and smoking it okay so I'm smelling a mixture of fresh cannabis and a mixture of burnt cannabis right now I smoked earlier like like way earlier in the car earlier but I was Park when I smoked ear you still can't you can't uhuh no you can't what's your last name oh what's your first name uh Jamar j m a r what's your birth dat 89 10 for confirm okay so you don't have any cannabis in the car right now that's open n nuh so let me educate you on the cannabis laws mhm if you're going to have it with you it has to be in a sealed odor prooof childproof container yeah can't have more than 30 gram okay you can't smoke in your car you can't drive after you've been smoking okay yeah so how much have you smoked today just a blunt just a blunt okay that's it cuz I kind of see the conjunctive of your eyes a little bit red yeah it been cold too and I've been watering too so it kind of been you know in a difference between so how long ago did you smoke uh about what about 3 hours ago about 4 hours ago what time is it now uh without looking it's probably like probably like six or five I think okay okay think it's like 6 so about what time do you think you did what time did I do it uh about what like probably early that probably before that morning I woke up and I'm trying to think yeah probably BR yeah do you have 12 12 12 do you have anything in the car that you're not supposed to have no I don't have anything n you already smoked all your weed up yeah okay yeah I think so yeah think so yeah I a got I ain't got you can check yeah okay here's the deal Che good sorry they keep talking to me temp so what I want to do man I want to make sure you're good all right yeah I'm good okay well I know you think you're good but I'm I'm going to see if you're good okay so what I want you to do is I want you to hold out either hand it doesn't matter right hand or left hand okay don't do it until I tell you to do it but when I tell you to what I want you to do is I want you to count Out Loud by touching the tip of your thumb to the tip of each finger okay I'm going to show you how it's going to look yeah can I help you oh that's my pot he came to help me out my fuse yeah so 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1 I'm going to show you again 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1 again use the tips of your fingers okay good one 2 3 4 4 3 2 3 4 that how do try it again one two three 4 4 five six four I can't okay let's try let's try something else what did you graduate high school yes I did okay do you have any college but I struggled in high school you struggled in high school yeah you know how to count one to 100 to 100 yes yeah okay do you know your ABCs yeah okay I got to ask some people don't man I'm not trying to you know be silly or anything I like struggling like like what you just did like what the like what you just did I'm bad with numbers like that's cool that's cool so let's let's start with I'm going to have you start with the number 83 and count back until you get to the number 57 I ain't good with numbers I'm bad with numbers you can't count backwards I'm stupid what about your ABCs I know my ABC ab hold on no no so I can't do One backwards though so no I'm not going to ask you to do them backwards all right this this why I'm going to have you do this instead start with the letter j and I want you end with the letter q without singing it you said what again start with the letter J end with the letter Q do not sing it though say it out loud go ahead you said the end the q j n the Q J the Q go and say it out loud I don't know man I ain't G lie start with J I ain't gonna lie that's why I can't I I am bad at I don't know you don't know I can't do I told you that's what I I struggled in school for that type stuff know I know my ABCs though you know what your ABCs it's just like I can't click like it's not clicking like real fast fair enough I already strugg I'm just trying to give you the easy ones okay yeah so here I'm going to do I'm going to have you stand up I'm going to do one to see if if you're impaired by cannabis okay so go ahead and stand up for me put your stuff down put both feet together hands at your sides now I want you follow the tip of my finger right here all right M at one point the tip of my finger is going to come close to the bridge of your nose I'm not going to touch you I'm not going to push you I'm not going to throw you to the ground all right so just just keep your eye on my finger with your eyes and your eyes only don't move your head okay see it tip of my finger right here okay you ready MH no you got to watch my finger no it's right here all right I see it all right follow it all the way around one more time not right here all [Music] [Applause] [Music] all no it's got to weird it feels weird you want to know why it feels weird why cuz cannabis affects the way in which your eyes can concentrate no I'm just being goofy too cuz it's like you just it's it's like it just swirling around like yeah then I be playing the game to you was like uh try to follow you with it what time did you get here like what what time is it now probably like 5 something so right now it's 5:50 550 so I was through here about 30 minutes ago didn't see you going on probably going on5 probably about going on5 what time he call you I call him what time did you call him uh I don't know I you got your phone on yeah I got the phone how you do when was the last time you smoked for Real about at least like one or no I had it been like one or before probably before 12 see haven't smoked since 12 okay hold on stay here right here with this officer all right all right what's your name man you live familiar Jamar Jamar yeah know where you from Orana original oh yeah yeah how old are you uh 30 okay I'm a little younger 27 did you go champagne then yeah T no I went to Central yeah Central okay got you would you brushing your teeth in there or something no that's my uh you know I got bre so I had oh that's like I was using my uh my mom's okay I see everybody's got the flossers but for you that's that's your flosser basically no it Ain no flosser no I was using somebody El I had left mine at home and I was using somebody else I took the head off of it and poed it on there oh so you can use it gotta come here come here with me all right we're going to do another another finger one okay all right so go ahead and put your feet together hands at your side again I want you to look at my finger the tip of my finger your eyes only okay don't move your head but I want you to distract my finger with your eyes only okay so right on the dot 47 yeah top so yeah couple more [Music] times all right two more stick with me get any weed for the new year no no I'm going to go upwards all right don't move your head just try Okay do favor open your mouth stick at your tongue okay all right so for this next one what I want you to do is I want you stand right there for me right behind your license plate I want you face my car all right so for these I'm going to read off the book cuz it gets kind of confusing if I read the directions based on how I talk and not based on how everybody talks okay yeah cuz otherwise you'd be like man I don't even know what you talking about man country is so all right so for this one what I want you to do is I want you to place your hails together your toes together and your arms at your side just like that okay now don't start the test until I tell you do St do you understand the instruction so far so when I tell you to raise when I tell you to I want you to raise either foot approximately 6 in off the ground and keeping your foot raised parallel to the ground you must keep both legs straight your side and you're going to hold that position while counting out loud in the following manner 1,001 1,002 1,003 and so on until I tell you to stop now let me demonstrate it for you okay feet together hands your side I want you to look down I want you to pick either leg doesn't matter which leg up 6 in foot parallel to the ground and you're count don't start till I tell to you're going to count out loud th1 1,2,3,4,5 and so on until I tell you to stop now I'm a big fat guy I can do it so all right go ahead and begin two what would you say 1, 1 102 13 1003 I mean4 10056 1007 1008 1009 10010 1001 1128 man okay man it's cold man why you got be doing this man I ain't going to lie man why you got to be doing this man keep going it's crazy go and stop I got you doing it goe and stop go and stop I just can't just leave my leg up man no you're good goad and stop a drunk or nothing no I didn't say you're you are agitating now it's getting cold man okay go you can stop you can stop it's I'm getting cold man it's crazy I understand we'll do one more I'm going to do one more I'm going to do walk and turn and then then we'll be done fair enough all right so what I want you to do is come over here so where it's nice and level cuz I don't want you to trip over that so right here where level stand right here face that way face this way yep mean this way yep face that way so what you're going to do for this one is you're going to put your feet together hands at your side okay yeah now with your left foot I want you to imagine there's an imaginary line in front of you so just find a line don't use that one cuz I don't want you tripping yeah but just go Ahad and look at a line in front of you imagine a line in front of you okay [Music] yeah give me a second here I can't answer no so right now do you have any physical abnor abnormality you have any problems with your back your legs anything like that I could do something what you got what's wrong with your back it's it was hurting one part of the time I broke a disc it but it was hurting so maybe a disc problem at one point okay but you're walking fine today yeah I ain't hurting right now okay so what I want you to do is I want you place that left foot on the line in front of you wherever you decide that line is don't stay here all just find them just imaginal line in front of you put put your left foot on that imaginary line now what I want you to do is place the right heel in front of your left foot with the right heel touching your left foot just like this and keep your hands at your side now I want you to maintain this position until I've completed the instructions and do not start walking until I tell you to do you understand that when I say begin I want you to take nine Heel To Toe steps on the line turn around and take nine heel toe steps back on the line you're going to make your turn by keeping your front foot on the line and turn by taking a series of small steps with the other foot now it's going to look like this you ready yeah see so it's going to look like this one two three four five and so on until you get to nine you're going to take a series of small steps by keeping that left foot on the line and you're going to do nine back one 2 3 four five and so want until you get to nine what's that to see if I fall off the line walk down this line because it's not even I don't want that to throw your balance off line yeah if you want we go over this one over here oh man y playing man you want L let's do this man crazy playing with me man give me favor step back for him playing with you man just do what I know but man talking about man it's crazy man I a drunk or nothing I'm just doing like I know that but I'm just I'm talking 2 3 four 5 6 7 8 9 no I need you to walk oh you want me to walk yeah like I showed you one two three want me to stay on my heels just like I instruct you to do [Music] all right do me a favor put your hands behind your back now what what this is crazy so couple things I'll explain to you in just a second sir number one you got a city of champagne warrant a city of champagne warrant yeah how long I've been on parole and a ain't never never even though it's Petty it just doesn't go away what oh my God you like paying fees or something on some present Canabis you got years ago years years ago right did you ever finish paying yeah well why is just now popping up I don't know you know me Ty I been pulled over down here that's crazy y'all just had me do all day they said I got a warrant now pop oh yeah yeah but they had me just doing all that that was crazy say [Music] a city warrant they said I got a city a city warrant you have anything on you stick me no I ain't got anything you want to separate a little there go some cigarette butts and keys is the key of the car yeah you can get my pops please all right so you're under arrest for the warrant and suspicion of being under the influence of cannabis to the point sup well cuz I gave you a bunch of test and you were unable to complete the test but sir what I get a I get a disability for that like how you was asking me all those type of questions what do you get a disability for social security for what for like Reading Writing and all that that's why I struggle like hard in school you know what saying I don't like all the stuff that you was saying wasn't like really clicking to me you know what I'm saying okay that's what I was just really kind of trying to explain to you in a in a part of well and that's why I I went ahead and had you step out and do the balance test I'm not real you know what I'm saying yeah I could do did I pass that at least no cuz you didn't follow any instructions oh my God all right have we go over here with my car put that back on you have a seat for please Dam it's crazy boy I'm going to leave a little bit of space that way you're not L laying on your cuffs cuz otherwise it'll start hurting real bad okay come on sir you po wants to talk to you okay all right what's going on bro they said I got a warrant and then he said suspicious to being high huh he said I was suspicious of being high then he said I got a warrant I don't even know what I got a warrant for you know how long I've been getting stopped and all that yeah but it it mean that's crazy hell it ain't really nothing man I'm going to jail man what you you going give they say I got a warrant man I don't even know what I got a what that mean DUI now they said I got a D you why they going to say I was driving high like how they going to tell me I they a been playing with me all in the street and stuff had me in this cold I'm at the Circle K gas station on cutting they me playing partner we're going to get off the phone you want to talk to your pops or not all I ain't on the highway you want to talk to your pops we call you later oh yeah do you want him to have and keep it with you uh what you want that me hold I get my give car is got to be to it's getting to the city policy man be City policy says for DUI arrest they get to I'm going to give him the form he can release it to whoever and then it could be picked up the uh but still going to be Char a it for it to it is what it is oh I ain't High how you going to say I was high you didn't you didn't you playing around with him I'm told you quit playing with him I wasn't even playing with him PP he over there playing with me man a even do nothing he over there playing with me pop got me and then he don't say I got a warrant why you been you got me dancing and drip dri no he reading the your your thing in man that's crazy pop how they going to just tell me I got a warrant now then they over there spinning me around doing this doing that it is what it is bro how how you going to get caught hey it is what it is I know but it is what it is hey just be cool though just be cool okay I can't beol what you mean ain't nothing man it's I mean small man just make sure blow it all out blow it no problem he Ain G do nothing maning job I ain't even drunk like i' been that's crazy G that's crazy man I said make sure you blow it all out though I don't want it in the car hit it again hit it again one more time bro hey it's nothing you don't give them no problem cuz they ain't going to do nothing get some more time I've been spending all this money hey blow blow out the car man my that I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm just okay just be cool with him don't don't give him no problem or nothing man all right so now I got to read this to you this you're going to have to hang with with me dude there's a lot of stuff here I'll explain it all after I'm done but once I start I can't stop I got to read it all there's a lot of legal stuff okay after being read the Illinois warning to Motors form the suspect consented to providing an evidentiary sample of his blood if you do do it I got to get a shot too they're going to draw blood mhm and you're going to urinate in the cup and it's it's one of those I can't urinate I can't I can't I can't well test is over with then and that's considered a fail okay if you do do it and you're found to have more than what you're supposed to of THD in your body then your license will be suspended just minimum 6 months if you fail to do it it'll be suspended for at least 12 months you understand that yeah okay so we're going to go to Carl and have it done and at that point you will have the opportunity to accept or deny having it done okay hey you understand that you got a you going to have a bond man hey they want they want to go to Carl and take some piss and take I they got you know do they going to do the proceed should I do it though yeah I mean what do the what do the thing they want me to piss I don't I can't piss right now it's so cold I think you going wait they said he ain't waiting I mean I'm talk about the test everybody has here's the deal physiologically everybody has enough before I go to count okay well how much is the buy I don't know he he said he going to charge with uh with the D and all that he said like I just got my all right we head out following the arrest the suspect Jamar was taken to the Carl Foundation hospital to submit an evidentiary sample of his blood which yielded a result of greater than 20 nanograms of THC per milliliter in the state of Illinois a person is presumed under the influence of cannabis if their THC concentration is 5 nogs or more in whole blood in court the defendant was charged with one count of driving under the the influence of any other drug or combination of drugs or DUI on January 5th 2021 365 days after the arrest the charge was dismissed Jamar was ordered to pay $10 for the bond fee this amount has been paid in full because the only charge from the incident was dropped the defendant was not sentenced of note Jamar was once again ordered to continue payments on the possession of cannabis ordinance violation from November 16th 2011 from which the arrest warrant was aced the amount outstanding was $37.50 when on February 23rd 2021 9 years 3 months and 7 days after the violation was issued the charge was dismissed due to this Jamar was no longer ordered to pay the remaining balance