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by your right foot actually she's uh she's saying that she's completely uninjured uh she doesn't even want us to check her out she's going to sign refusal but she does smell okay e on August 9th 2022 around 8:55 p.m. patroman Thomas Anderson with the eam Township Police Department was dispatched to the scene of a motor vehicle accident involving a 2018 niece on Rogue on tanum Lake Road when he arrived on scene around 900 p.m. he observed that the vehicle had struck the guard rails on both sides of the road and that the vehicle was blocking the roadway on a bridge in front of 199 tonon Lake Road patroman Danielle Torres made contact with the driver of the nce on Rogue as she was being evaluated by First Responders and she was identified as Marie Mendes here's a rout for the toe she's her glove box is like completely smashed in so she can't get all of her like insurance and registration I think she has a registration and you don't want to get checked out or anything no I'm fine okay where are you coming from I'm just coming from I'm just going home really I know but okay real quick can I just name my first name is Marie Elina spell me m r said it was capital e l was like lined up have you ever been number off what's your home address you need the address sound so I I based okay yeah I can't get like any information one second I'm the sign right here okay they said just you change your mind start hting later sorry what is it iut if you this is saying you don't want us to bring check you out or bring you to the hospital right now no I'm completely can't be held legally responsible but you can change your mind at any point in time and just call back and we'll gladly out fine I'm fine I just want to make sure everyone else is all oh uh is there a key in ignition or is like a button no it's a button the fob before you leave I just want to make sure we get the fob from you so we get what is it the the key what does that mean for you to turn the car on the key for the car oh I have it yeah we'll just need that cuz the tow Chuck will need it when they show your car oh okay okay you talk I just name birthday add all right Miss yeah you mind stepping out so we can kind of figure out what happen here sure sure I'm just looking for the key it's okay don't worry about it for now is that the is that the key right there I think it is right here on here okay so just to be clear nobody else was in the car with you correct no do you need anything on this key are you just my house key all right here you want to take it and then I'll give them the uh so what what happened today from your point of view I have no idea it's just this road I have no luck with this road I've had several flat tires with this road in the dark um all right where uh which way were you headed I was heading this way you were going 273 yep towards my home like less and a half mile Marie declined further medical ATT attention patrolman Anderson spoke with two witnesses who claimed that Marie had tailgated behind their vehicle and that the observed the crash the witnesses also informed patrolman Anderson that they observed a bottle of wine inside the vehicle based on the odor of alcohol and the witness accounts the officers began their DWI investigation Marie told the officers that she was coming from her mother's residence and denied consuming alcohol but she was asked to perform field sobriety exercises and then I'm home so so you mean this way you mean no this way okay you y here's the key leave it that way I have hor I've lost several flat tires on this road and today was just another night all right so you don't know how you uh what happened leading up to the accident as far as you were aware you were driving normally and everything I was completely driving normally and um I probably drove off the road because I couldn't see which I replaced several tires for yeah and then whoever was behind me I mean I'm I'm I'm pretty sure was right directly behind me ex all right where you coming from oh boy just from my mom's house where is that I mean what town is that a rad oh okay awesome all right and you're just ated home how long were you at in mom house oh my God I probably picked my son up from at before 5:00 and then I dropped him off and I went back over there so probably only three hours or a couple hours okay what time I honestly don't know what time is right now about but it was only it was only a few hours yeah I got you all right if you had to guess what time it is what time without looking at your CL probably around 9:00 probably around 9:00 have you had any alcoholic bages to drink tonight no not a lot or not at all okay any other substances narcotics anything like that no prescription medications no absolutely awesome okay so we are going to go ahead and proceed with F I can smell the odor of an alcohol guys so um you sure you haven't had anything to drink okay all no problem so in the meantime obviously is going to have to be seed the airbags that are obious enre wheel is off who get that's yours so yeah you can hold on to your keys I gave the key Bob to um fire he's got that okay yep and then um so we're going to do Feld sobriety real quick and after that we'll explain get through the whole process of uh the action reporting that okay all right did you have your license on me it's somewhere in here yeah we are obviously we are going to give you an opportunity to remove any valuable from the car prior to thing so um but we'll we'll go through that at that point okay it would just take me a minut f see now okay so we're actually going to step over here all right we're going to do field body okay all right do you want me to find my license or no that's okay can we position the vehicle we're just going go over here yeah yeah that's fine you hold that there that's you have your other s it's in the car somewhere it's on the it's right there I see it one right there gra that one property location so like I said we're just going we can just follow this so we're going to go right over there right over here just watch okay you got your shoes [Applause] on you want me pull my car up hang out right here I I [Applause] [Applause] m [Applause] [Applause] did you I need to practice some more oh to watch Are You H certified all right what's your name man Marie Elena Mendes all right Marie come over here right here stand right here all right do you have any problem with your eyes you have any problem with your eyes any medical issues or anything like that Sergeant Robert Hansberry started with the horizontal Gay's nagus hgn test during the hgn test Sergeant Hansberry observed the lack of smooth pursuit in distinct sustained NI stmas at maximum deviation in both eyes in the onset of nice stmas prior to 45° in both eyes the second exercise was the walk and turn test and it was administered by patrolman Anderson during the walk and turn test Marie did not touch Heel To Toe on each step failed to keep her arms at her sides and took an incorrect number of steps the final exercise was the one leg stand test and Marie failed to raise her foot in the proper fashion while displaying a lack of balance no not all right contacts or anything like that all right see the ti of my with your eyes your eyes only just follow the tip of my pen okay hours to keep your head straight you're just going to follow the tip my pen okay [Music] mhm e [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right all right so the next test okay is the walk con turn test okay is this due to the lighting I'm going to actually you come over here if you will over here yeah we're going to start this way just so you can see me a little bit better okay you can just stand right where my light is please M right where my light is right here there you go you can turn turn around the face me all right so this test is the walk and turn test okay first I'm going to explain the test then I'm going to demonstrate it and then I'm going to ask you to demonstrated it okay so the start each test has a starting position okay so the starting position for this test is with your right foot back put your left foot in front so that your heel and your tail were touching okay with your hands at your side so I'm going to ask you to get into this position now okay right here correct right foot back Left Foot In Front y awesome just heel heel to toe touching just like that right awesome so you just stay in that position until we begin the test okay what you're going to do is you're going to take nine Heel To Toe steps forward in a straight line okay with your hands at your sides heel to toe touching every step okay on your ninth step you're going to leave one foot planted take a few steps to turn around and you're going to take nine Heel To Toe steps forward again in a straight line okay okay so I'm going to demonstrate it for you all right I'm in my starting position heel the toe touching one two three four five all the way up to nine one foot planted here's a small steps to turn around one 2 3 4 5 all the way up to nine okay if you lose your balance uh step off the line anything to that effect just correct yourself and pick back up from where you left off okay okay do you have any questions about that do you have any injuries anything in your uh anything that would affect your uh balance or anything to that effect I don't think so would you agree that this is a suitable uh place in the road to conduct this test yeah okay all right you can be good when you're ready all [Applause] right it's five right nine nine all right okay I can do I can do nine if you feel like you can do it better with nine steps that's fine go ahead [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] up all right next test okay again there's there's a starting position for this test okay the starting position for this test with both feet together with your hands at your sides okay so I'm going to ask you to get in this position and stay in this position until we begin the test okay so what you're going to do is you're going to pick one leg whichever one whichever leg you're more comfortable with you're going to lift it a 3 1,000 4 1000 you're going to keep counting until I tell you to stop okay this is what it's going to look like all right I'm going to choose my right leg again you could choose whichever leg you're more comfor any questions about that test okay all right you can begin when you're ready ready down just keep yep keep going until to [Applause] stop great you can stop thank you you can put your Sand's back on so listen you're saying you haven't had any alcoholic beverag beverag n okay you haven't had any other substances no no prescription [Applause] medication based on the motor vehicle accident the odor of alcohol the witness account regarding the bottle of wine and her inability to adequately perform the field sobriety exercises Marie was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated the trollman Anderson transported her to the IAM Township Police Department for further processing her vehicle was towed for a mandatory 12-hour impound as required by John's law I am going to ask you to turn around you are under arrest okay okay we're uh driving while in par I'm not in par okay to [Applause] do you have anything in your car that you need to have [Applause] removed you have your cell phone in your house right in my house I have to call my son's dad to get him from my house all right Toby say your go all right what was it that your keys are on this that's on the key correct okay all right and you said your name is Lena y okaya we're just going to walk right back here to the rear mik uh right over here over here that's [Applause] my anything to stick APR me in your pockets no no I'm not sure why I might being underr take okay put it back in my case over there I believe it's in theboard of your car car sure just have a seat please back is good hold I don't know not registration she think she thought this was her I don't know cuz she gave that to somebody else it was so it just had her full name and her address on it um in your car it's it looks like a jewelry receipt okay yeah it's a jewelry rece like next or something [Applause] okay you said they saw a bottle in the the witness said that they heard a clunk and they also saw but they believe there's a bottle of wine in the front passenger floorboard she was in there for a little bit I didn't EMS you know mean FOC for injuries they hard to get in there anyway too because [Applause] just um so just grab her stuff look around real fast uh see if anything of value will take it with us everything's future reference who what do we that so Count's coming out eventually so you're actually going to say basically beard off the road here hit this whatever this is I guess that's the that's a street sign that's got to be sign I don't know if there is one maybe hidden driveway or something like that whe came off cuz that was in Middle here yeah right here the uh Rim Yeah like the got to hit that went [Applause] across make sure we put that Down's gonna see that right put in your narrative that okay um and then just hit that and SP around hit that came over cuz you can see kind of like maybe came in well this is option maybe hit it turn around I guess we'll see if there's damage to to the [Applause] [Music] B yeah [Applause] information notify all airbags are out keep an eye on her sure he's Medical protction but just keep an eye on her yeah IP hey Dani you're a little smart you see on the driver's side that you can get in the glove box over there GL box yeah for the registration if you see any signs of uh and beverage too an alcoholic beverage Witnesses said they saw a bottle of wine in there anything value way put [Applause] [Music] you just got to show regra start any M get it [Music] out going above and Beyonce right now guess I one bring we're in the [Applause] crease listen if they heard that clunk she could just toss it right yeah well that's true com [Applause] she says she's rest owner or she said her boyfri l or her husband I don't know I didn't see uh her there you go yeah I had to break that thing open like that's her and then this um so just you have a license on it no she said it was in here but [Applause] [Music] so not value up man um the whole wheels off so you got to just the one car yeah it's just this um she got a ton of the rest of the car here [Applause] you okay your arm HT from uh like the handcuffs being too tight would you like me to recheck them [Applause] sure what's that yeah I got to check the cops for her she's up she stayed in the are hurting her orange so double check that's key her F sunglass and airpod value that we remove corre normally going through that W right all right listen we're going to help you out and we're going to redo your cff for you okay sure we got yourself you have two airpod containers Chargers keys and your micel C sunglasses that's the only thing about you I still don't understand why I'm being arrested though you being arrested for uh being impaired by your drug I'm not ined though okay that it we go to the station you provide the test sure and then we you know I thought that I I was going to do that here though but um the Breer uh we in Berlin County we don't throw it on the scene we got to go to the station okay so is there a way that I can make a phone call to my son's father so he to home my son my son is home by himself right now once we get to the station we'll give you a call aler Anderson he's going to leave now my son is nine so he's probably wondering why he okay well right now you're in our custody so once we get back to the police station we'll allow you to make that phone call to how's that feel so a lot of it to is obviously when you sit down the pressure going to be a little bit more pressure forward right it's hard with seat Bel I get let give me one second let me grab this uh seat Bel way I can put it back on this your have a cell pH he does yeah what's your address okay all right you feel conf if I could just have this Z and just tell that I'll be home soon then all right soon as all gets the station he'll he'll let make that phone call okay [Applause] [Applause] great get the uh yeah yep um yeah oh is Marcus I think I think I actually just called somebody you want want to let her call right now or you right now [Applause] right you to call for yourself child child's father father what's his name Jeremy Sosa all right who's Marcus he's my boyfriend oh okay do you want him to call or no no okay all right we'll just call when you get back no just just remember for the action you're not you're going to be doing on Friday we'll get you soon get you in there try to get you out so [Applause] 2213 at the IAM Township Police Department petroman Torres read her the standard statement for motor vehicle operators and she agreed to submit breath samples her Alco test results indicated a back level of 0.19% which was more than double the legal limit of 0.08% after she was processed Marie was released to a sober adult pending her court appearance he signed a potential shery warning form on her behalf patroman Anderson issued her the following summonses operating Under the Influence careless driving traffic on Mark Lanes an open container Central 22 189 22 189 transporting one adult female in custody from the MVA to 220 starting mileage 478 28.8 transfer to the station at 2132 hours what's that it is 9:40 [Music] court records indicate that on November 26 2022 Marie was arrested again for DW IIM town ship New Jersey on March 16th 2023 Marie was found guilty of careless driving a and her license was revoked for 90 days the other three citations were dismissed as part of the plea agreement on the same date Marie was also found guilty of the other DWI from November 26 2022 while the other citations for traffic on marked lanes and reckless driving from the November DW were dismissed as part of the plea agreement in total she had to pay $1,130 in fines the following month Maria Lena kyman as passed away on April 24th 2023 Central 22 189 22189 arriving 220 ending mileage last three 31.9