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Brown with the okal police department responded to a report of a female who was slumped over behind the wheel of a white 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan at the Circle K located on 245 any 28th Avenue she and another officer made contact with the caller before knocking on her windows and Awakening the occupant of the vehicle the occupant told officer Brown that she did not have her driver's license with her but she identified herself as 27-year-old Ella sorry okay stop going on your phone please give me your ID I'm so sorry okay well I've asked three times for it now well I'm sorry just sorry guys after a long eventful night come out thank you Happy Thanksgiving thank you is the car registered to you yes th% what's your name Ella flak Ella Flack yes what's your name bre I'm just going to run her cuz she can't find her ID for 36 Miss Flack are you from or you just haven't updated your address yet I have not updated do you have anyone in town that can come pick you up um I mean technically yes but okay here's your options just kind of off the Record um you don't I swear my life I I have been sitting here waiting for my friend to respond to me okay let me just fin you obviously are not fit to drive as officer Brown was speaking with Ella she detected the odor of alcohol and observed other indicators of impairment Ella was offered an opportunity to have her friend come and get her but her friend was also under the influence and unable to drive since officer Brown believed that Ella was not able to safely operate a motor vehicle she initiated a DUI investigation Alo was asked to exit the vehicle and perform field sobriety exercises so you can either call a friend and have them here in the next 10 or 15 minutes or I'm going to do a DUI investigation okay um is there a way for me to possibly get my ID back you never gave me your ID you probably left it at the bar I would recommend you call a friend a sap I'll pick that stuff up for you no I've got them on the phone with me I literally ENT up my are we talk to your friend I've can we talk to your friend that's on the phone allegedly sure alissia where are you do you come get you yes I do can we talk to her yes who is this Alysia hey Alysia this is Officer Bron OPD hey how are you fine how are you I'm great where are you located at I'm on Southwest side of town okay do you know where the Circle K is I can give you the address if you want to put it in your phone on the east side um uh I can grab an address for sure hang on is she not okay to drive are you okay to drive be honest if you're not no personally like okay you're good I appreciate it all right your friend's drunk too so I'm going to need you to step out of the vehicle okay okay I can I can call somebody else just step out of the vehicle for me okay we're going to just do some field sobriety exercises that's no no worries I haven't tried to drive anywhere so great go ahead and step out for me okay was just the first person I was with and anything I can call somebody else cool just go ahead and stand right in front of my vehicle for me I can do that just hang on one second right here I just got to make sure my camera's on off or on sorry I was just yeah I was just oh you're good go ahead and take a couple steps back for me um sure sorry I conf there we go the camera is pretty good quality so it's okay um take a couple more steps back for me please I'm just officer Brown started with the walk and turn test during the walk and turn test Ella did not touch Heel To Toe on each step and failed to turn the first time she attempted the test again but she was unable to follow instructions the second exercise was the horizontal gaze nagus hgn test during the HG and test officer Brown observed the lack of smooth Pursuit distinct and sustained nice status at maximum deviation and the onset of niist stmas prior to 45° the this field sobriety exercise was the one leg stand test and Ella failed to raise her foot in the proper fashion did not count alloud as instructed and placed her foot down before the test was complete the final exercise was the recitation of the alphabet and Ella was unable to do this in the correct sequence back yes ma'am I'm just trying to get a good camera view can you update the address are you Willet exercises so I'm going to explain the first one to you it's called the walk and turn pretty easy I'm going to demonstrate it for you okay face this way or face the other way you can just stay right where you are with your hands by your side okay so what you're going to do when I tell you to is you're going to take nine Heel To Toe steps like this one two three four five 6 7 8 nine keep your foot planted and turn around and then nine back one two three same thing and count your steps out loud okay do you understand these instructions yes okay go ahead whenever you're ready nine do you need me to explain the instructions again n again okay I'm going to explain the instructions again for you nine again turning around I'm going to just explain the whole thing for you again okay so you're going to take nine steps down counting out loud Heel To Toe keep one foot planted when you get to the end turn around nine steps back Heel To Toe counting out loud do you need me to demonstrate it again okay start whenever you're ready okay okay so for this one you're just going to follow the tip of my pen just stand how you're standing right now um you're going to follow it with your eyes only don't move your head okay do you understand this yes okay d off c yeah okay it's [Music] cold okay um the next test or exercise is a one leg stand so whichever leg PE not right the second okay I don't have anywh for you to sorry it's cold so you're going to pick whichever leg you want Keep Your Arms by your side when I tell you to you're going to lift whichever leg you choose off the ground about a foot you're going to count to 30 and look at your foot do you understand this after sure do you understand these instructions yes ma'am okay start whenever you are ready okay ready one two three is at 30 yeah you're good you don't have any medical issues right any past brain injuries any issues with your eyes um anything that would from doing any of these exercises have to can you say your alphabet without singing it yes just straightforward yes all right do it a b c d e f g h i g a b c d f g h a i oh a b c d e f g h i j k l m n n o f m n o p q r s t u v WX Y and Z okay go ahead and turn around for me face the car base on her being asleep behind the wheel the odor of alcohol and her inability to adequately perform the field sobriety exercises Ella was placed under arrest for driving Under the Influence after Ella was placed in the car she was transported by Officer Brown to the Marian County Jail officer Matthew stayed behind as her vehicle was towed by Carl Johnson's Towing okay so you are being placed under ARR for DUI even if I have someone comeing to get me and I'm not trying to drive your jacket's in the way your friend is also drunk she can't I'm not trying to call friends me all right just step right here to the left this is the right oh it is I'm sorry it's the right you're right just stand right here do you have anything on you no ma'am all right I'm just going to check your pocket not on my do you have a phone or something we can grab out of your car my phone's in my car okay I wasn't going to try to drive that's why I'm in the parking lot of I had to get here I got here sober so you drink in the parking lot not at all go ahead and take a seat for in the parking lot are you kidding me so you got here silver but didn't drink in the parking lot but somehow you're drunk th% that makes a lot of sense 3 12 10 15 oh I'm just going to grab her phone really quick um oh should we do the form for the car do you want to recording are you going to want to take a breathalyzer at the jail I don't know whatever you need me to do ma'am I don't know [Music] 3 account 10 so far there's anyone BTO certified cuz I could I have them 51 to the jail please [Music] hey you're okay nobody got hurt it's just just a misdemeanor arrest okay it's not not the end of the world to my daddy yeah we'll be at the jail in like 5 5 minutes we'll get you out of the Cuffs okay it's okay C here one 6, fre 172 4 second 42 just reference to a older male a heavy jacket that hood up running around work a lot with this bicyc it's possibly left there's no to the A 308 to 312 you attack one okay yeah that's 104 95 birthday yeah what's up yes absolutely yes 23 we're like less than 5 minutes away yeah reload it's okay 2311 keep calling please hey it happens don't don't beat yourself up tell you what Suter we're in Maran right now I didn't know it was yeah so when so when I got there you were in control of the vehicle it was running yeah but it like even if the car wasn't on you can't be you can't be in a running vehicle when you're under the influence that's okay it's like I said it's just a misdemeanor you probably be able to just pay some fines and get it off your record okay it's not the end of the world yeah I said it's just a it's a misdemeanor so it's not not the end of the world you'll be able to bond out you'll be able to it's it's okay don't be too upset I don't about this yeah I'll explain it more once we get once I can talk to you apprciate that I'm so sorry that's okay Ella was booked into the Marian County Jail at for 42 a.m. she agreed to submit breath samples and her breath test results indicated back levels of .1 for5 G to 10 and .144 G to 10 which would be almost double the legal limit of 0.08% Ella waved Her Miranda rights and admitted to consuming five drinks at several bars earlier that evening Ella was charged with driving under the influence fluence FSS 316.193 1C and later released the same day at 3:34 p.m. her case was later disposed of on January 25th 2023 a total of $165 and 81 cents in fines have been assessed against her according to court 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