welcome back folks to the DUI Channel we are in Normal Illinois where on New Year's Day 2020 at 2 53 a.m normal police responded to a verbal argument the caller reported that two people were sitting in a car and arguing in the dead end of 1815 Parkway Court both officers approached the vehicle as their investigation begins hello hey hi I'm Austin Police Department can you step out and talk to me real fast yeah wonderful step back this way hey man we got called out here because some people saw you guys argue you guys arguing [Music] I think it's unlocked I'm gonna open it hey can you hang up no you can't you can't open my door I can you need to step out I'm talking to my mom that's fine you need to step out of the car oh I can't yep I I can't answer any questions right now okay I'm gonna give you one more chance and then I'm gonna have to pull you out of the car no you can't I can you can't I'm not doing anything wrong you are no I'm not you're not getting out of the car I'm sitting in the car by myself yep you need to get out I'm not doing anything wrong come on all right Katie time to get out of the car come on nope nope [Music] why is it not fair [Music] do you have anything on you you're not supposed to have it did you hang up on my mind where should I tell her to go he's coming here and she was gonna pick me up we can give her a call in a little bit I didn't even do anything wrong you want me to just pull my car up that's fine I'm gonna pull my car up yeah okay cool that's fine here I'm gonna hang on to your phone yeah that's fine [Music] yeah do you have a driver's license in the car in your purse or something yeah okay yeah okay yep we're talking your boyfriend he said he's lying to us is that what you said I got in my car I tried my mom and she said that she was going to be on her way here and he got into my car and so I had to sit out here my friend's house is over here I was just gonna stay the night here and I didn't want to be here anywhere so I called my mom to come pick me up okay all right okay yeah I did drink a little but I'm 22 like okay it's New Years like understood okay for now I'm gonna have you take a seat in my car over here all right let's head over here can you have a seat in there please I'm gonna put this on you for now okay it's a couple minutes okay thank you um you want me to search my search I can do it okay um I am I'm just gonna do it at post she's 95 either way yeah um is she gonna do I haven't brought it up yet but she already said I'm just thinking that if she's saying no then I would just go and tell it but otherwise I'll wait for I think you're gonna have to wait yeah I'll wait that's all right okay all right man I know you saw it I know you heard it do you have any questions about what happened um so what's going on right now is because you had some marijuana on you and you were in the car we have probable cause to search the car that being said we obviously need her to exit the car to be able to search the car she didn't want to do that that's why she's in handcuffs right now we're gonna go in that door over there following the arrest the suspect was transported to the normal Police Department for DUI testing we're gonna go to the door on your left here and then through the door to your left all right and then if you could stop right there would you mind giving me a search he's just gonna search you make sure there's nothing crazy in your pockets that I missed or anything okay yep I'm gonna take your handcuffs off do you prefer to go by okay all right so the first thing I'm going to do is just look at your eyes something crazy um All I'm gonna have you do is if you could just stand straight up with your feet heels and Toes together um just relax your arms down at your sides and then if you want to just turn and face me this way all right then can you see the tip of my finger okay do you have any eye problems abnormalities anything weird I can't see like up close just have like a prescription like I'm farsighted okay yeah okay no like crazy eye diseases or anything like that okay but like my left eye is worse than my right okay can you see the tip of my finger okay okay uh just follow the tip of my finger with your eyes and only keep your head still okay okay all right feel free to Blink if you need to just keep watching the tip of my finger okay right here right okay now we're going to do the same thing but we're just going to go up this time okay yeah all right okay cool um next one we're gonna do is called the walk and turn test do you have any issues with your legs hips knees anything that would prevent you from walking in a straight line okay awesome I'm gonna have you start at the very start of this tape line right there um there's a bunch of Specific Instructions so I'm just going to read them from a book just so we're on the same page okay so what I'm going to have you do if you want to get in that starting position from when I was looking at your eyes just feet heels and Toes together should relax your arms down at your sides for me thank you just stay in that position until I tell you to do otherwise okay so don't begin the test until I tell you to and once you begin the test do not stop until you've completed the test keep your arms down at your sides at all times watch your feet at all times and count your steps out loud does that make sense okay so now what I'm going to have you do is put your right foot in front of your left foot with your right heel touching your left toe so just like this right foot forward right heel touching your left toe yep and then if you want to put your left foot actually on in the middle of the line we're just going to use this line okay straight down and back okay and count every step correct yep I'll keep reading the instructions just hold that pose until I tell you otherwise okay cool um so when I say begin you're going to take nine Heel To Toe steps down the line turn around and take a nine Heel To Toe steps back down the same line okay you're going to make your turn by keeping your front foot on the line and then use your other foot to turn yourself around with a series of small steps does that all make sense so like this I'm going to show it to you okay just from what I've read to you do you have any questions about it just like count each set and go like kill so yeah I'll demonstrate it for you the only difference is I'm gonna walk towards you just so you can see what I'm doing okay okay so I'll start way down at the end of this line here so just in that started off sure yeah okay if you want to just put it on the bench that's fine yep do those shoes feel all right yeah just to walk in a straight line yeah Okay cool so if you want to get back in that starting pose right foot in front of your left foot both feet on the line heel touching your toe perfect yep just relax your arms down at your sides and then I'm going to start at this end I'm going to get in the same pose that you're in right now okay and then I'm going to demonstrate the test right so the test is going to look just like this one two three four five six seven eight nine okay one two three four five six seven eight nine okay okay do you have any questions about the test or what I did no you understand okay when you're ready begin and keep count your first step is one okay okay like this okay one two three all right cool um last test we're gonna do is called the one leg stand you're just gonna be standing on one foot nothing crazy like that okay do you have any issues that would prevent you from doing that no okay cool I'll have you come like right maybe right here other than I gotta pee a little it okay we'll take care of that in just a couple minutes okay um so let's get in that very first starting position feet heels and Toes together arms just relax down on your side okay same thing as the other test there's a few uh Specific Instructions that I'm going to read just around the same page um so don't start the test um until I tell you to and when I tell you two you're going to raise either foot so I'll let you choose approximately six inches off the ground with your toes pointed out keep both of your legs straight and hold that position while you count out loud in the following manner one thousand one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four and so on until I tell you to stop okay um if you happen to put your foot down immediately lift it back up and continue counting from where you left off watch your raised foot while you're counting and keep your arms relaxed down at your sides throughout the test does that make sense okay so again I'm going to demonstrate it for you so again you're going to choose which foot you want to lift up I'm going to lift up my right foot that's just my preference so think about which one you want to do okay so I'd rather have my right foot okay yeah that's fine all right so the test is going to look just like this one thousand one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand six one thousand seven one thousand eight one thousand nine one thousand ten One Thousand Eleven and so on until I tell you to stop okay okay um does that on uh wherever you're comfortable just try and stay like in the middle okay um does that all make sense do you have any questions about the instructions and if it back up just yeah lift it up um keep counting from where you left off no okay from where you left off oh left off yep and then make sure you keep your arms down to your sides I saw you kind of wing out like that okay try and keep them down to your sides okay this is a time test you're gonna go until I tell you to stop okay um would you mind keeping the time for me okay so we'll let her get her stopwatch ready any other questions about the test that I can answer for you okay I don't think so okay when you're ready you can begin one thousand eight one thousand nine one thousand ten One Thousand Eleven one thousand twelve and thousand Thirty one thousand fourteen one thousand fifteen one thousand sixty one thousand Seventeen one thousand eighteen one thousand nineteen one thousand twenty one thousand okay cool do you have any questions about those tests that we just did okay how do you think you did on them good okay have you ever done tests like that before at all they're kind of weird right yeah okay um so just so I can get a kind of better understanding of what's going on tonight um how much have you actually had to drink just a little bit how much is a little that might be different for me probably like four shots yeah okay and then probably finished drinking around like 10 because it was like before New Year's and I called my mom when it was New Year's and then so her and her boyfriend were at the apartment still or her her boyfriend no sorry her boyfriend and my boyfriend were at the apartments though okay and they were playing 2K and I don't know what they were doing but we came back and we just were chilling for a little bit and it was New Year's so I called my mom and then my boyfriend was like I'm ready to go and I was like we're both too drunk to drive so I called my mom okay and that's why I was on the phone with my mom and then okay um what was what's your boyfriend's name okay um just because he we found a little bit of marijuana on him um I just want to ask have you had any did you smoke anything tonight okay can you like would you guess what time it was like earlier what's earlier like we're at we're at almost 4 a.m like yesterday before midnight like yesterday yesterday okay so before you started drinking even like yesterday well yesterday's a long day I'm just trying to get a sense okay so like like Monday night okay we're at yeah we're at Wednesday morning right now yeah so two days ago yeah I know after midnight I just got back from vacation okay where'd you go uh the Caribbean okay my pants okay so you do you feel high okay um and you said you called your mom because you felt like you were too drunk to drive okay okay and then she said my dad was coming and then like he didn't come so I was sitting in the car because my boyfriend was being like extra and um I was with my friend at her house with her boyfriend and honestly my plans were to stay there and I was telling my mom like I want to stay here and then when we went out to the car because my boyfriend he just left the apartment okay I called my mom and I was like I don't know what to do because I already told them like we were both too drunk and I was like I don't know what to do can you please come pick me up and she was like I'll ask Dad because she takes medicine pills for her heart yeah so like she can't drive past a certain time because like it tells her not to drive so she asked my dad and when I was just calling her when the situation happened I was like and then I saw that you guys were here and I was like Mom I don't know what to do like I literally just came out to check on him I wanted to leave okay like that was the situation gotcha okay so here's what's going on um I did see what I'm looking for in your eyes when I was checking your eyes it's called nystagmus um if you can picture a windshield wiper going across a dry windshield where it's kind of jerky like that I did see that a little bit when I was looking at your eyes um but you did great on the other two tests but with you saying that you felt like you were too intoxicated to drive what I'm going to ask is if you do a portable breathalyzer test um just to see kind of where you're at with alcohol um the thing is is like I wasn't even trying to drive that's why I was on the phone with my mom yeah but um try and understand it from where I'm at I can't read your mind if you're trying to drive or not you were in the car with the car on so that's why I have to make sure I don't know if you drove to the apartment I don't know if you were going to drive from the apartment I wish you and that's what your mom said that you were on the phone with her when I was trying to talk to you no and I was on it too okay so here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna grab a little device out of my car and then I'm just going to ask for a breath test so give me like 30 seconds I'll be right back with you okay thank you so this is brand new never been open before just for you one deep breath in one long steady breath out like okay so it's thinking it's getting ready here Ready set go all right deep breath in long steady breath out keep going keep going keep going Perfect all right if you had do you know what the uh do you know what the legal limit in Illinois is for breath alcohol yes if you had to guess what do you think you're at right now stand by just one one point one point zero six I don't know so you think you're under 0.08 right now okay if you haven't done one of these before it's hard to know yeah just so if you were to guess you think you're under the legal limit you think you'd be okay to drive I don't know no because I didn't I I yes yeah it's still thinking I was like what is it either way I was like I just want to ride home and there's a free Uber link what's that it's on my phone I can't tell you now you get a free ride through Uber it was like CSA announcement on the news okay there was like a free Uber link yeah it was like free Uber Lyft all right so you're almost double the legal limit okay okay that's why I asked for a ride yep I understand 917 you're good for the five five after the preliminary breath test yielded positive results for breath alcohol content the suspect submitted to an evidentiary breath test Perfect all right thank you I've got to put these back on for the ride over there can you turn around to the jail is where we're going next what am I going to do yes like in a Cell uh well your mom's gonna be right behind us to pick you up so as soon as they take your pictures and your fingerprints then you can go home they probably won't even make you change I can't believe as soon as we get there I don't have a female officer to go with you okay the suspect Caitlyn submitted a breath alcohol test which yielded 0.145 breath alcohol content she was charged with resisting arrest driving Under the Influence or DUI and DUI with a breath alcohol content of 0.08 or grading she pled guilty to both resisting arrest and DUI with a breath alcohol content of 0.08 or greater she was ordered to pay a total of three thousand two hundred twenty nine dollars and fifty cents as of February 10 2023 the current balance is one thousand seven hundred eight dollars Caitlyn was sentenced to two days in jail 24 months of conditional discharge and 240 hours of community service she was also ordered to participate in alcoholism treatment Caitlyn what are you doing here not doing anything not doing anything that's what everybody says sitting in my car asking my mom for a ride and the lights are in my windshield accusing the emissions say you got keys in the ignition and yes hold out just in physical control called my mom I called my mom twice she was