I am actually a Republican. I voted for Trump. Let's go over here. At this time, At this time, you are under arrest for driving under the influence. Okay? And I and we will be going to jail. I'm going to have you stand right here. Okay. 10:15. Hey, I really did. Okay. My little family. Do you have anything on? Um I have not even she was from all the way to here wrong side of the road. Hi. How's it going? Hi sir. I'm Officer Martinez Sarasota Police Department. The reason you were pulled over is cuz you were driving on the wrong side of the road. Okay. Any reason for that? Uh, I'm just trying to go home. Just trying to go home. Yes, sir. Okay. Where's home for you? Uh, I live in the uh neighborhood right over there. Over where? Uh, on the other side of Fruitville. On the other side of Fruitville. What's your address? License, registration, proof of insurance for me? Yes, of course. Of course. Any reason for driving on the wrong side of the road? Uh, well, I was uh trying to go home. Okay. Can you get your license for me, please? Sure. Sure. Sure. Thank you. Where are you coming from? Uh, I was uh at my girlfriend's house. I was watching her daughter tonight. Okay. Where at? Uh, at the If you could please get your license for me. Sure. So, you were at your friend's house? Yes. Where? And where does your friend live? at the uh apartments right over here on uh the place near here. Are you okay? Yes, I'm seems like you're you're you're not quite sure where you were at. No, I'm fine. I'm I'm I'm sorry. I was just caught off guard. Okay. I was just caught off guard because my house is My house is here. Sure, sir. Sir, would love to give you my your license? Yeah. You've been looking for it for quite a quite some time here. Yeah, it's here. Is it in there? Of course. Okay. Of course. Of course. Of course. I have a driver's license. I'm sorry, sir. I don't mean to be uh I mean, here's where Okay, I'm going to reach in here and pull your license out. I think this is it right here. Okay, this is you. Your name is Ellen, correct? Um I live uh Right over this street. Yeah. Yeah. On Erie, you said, right? Correct. Do you have your uh registration and proof of insurance for me? Of course. Can you grab that for me? And then How's it going, sir? Yeah. My my friend I just uh I This is your friend? Yeah, I grabbed him from our Have you had anything to drink tonight? Me? Yeah. No. You haven't had you haven't had anything to drink tonight. Alan, see, have you had anything to drink tonight? Uh, well, if you really want me to tell you the truth, I'm not going to lie. Well, I mean, I'd prefer you tell the truth, but it's up to you. Yes, I did have a couple of drinks. Couple drinks earlier tonight, I take it. Yes. How How long ago? Uh, like uh 3 4 hours ago. 3 4 hours. What' you have? Uh, vodka and club soda. Oh, okay. How many? Uh, two. Two. Yeah. So, when when I'm not going to lie to you, officer. I appreciate that. When do you think the last time you had it had one? What when was the last time that you drank? Time time wise? 4 hours ago. 4 hours ago. Do you think it's affecting your ability to drive? I don't think so. You don't think so? Okay, good. Um, how about the registration? Would you like to follow me home? No, no. I I'd like your registration approved for insurance if you could. Well, I think it's a possibly produce these things for you right now. You can't find them? Well, no. I mean, I I I have this in our Do you want to see this? I got new insurance on uh Saturday. Mhm. Okay. Your registration. Open that back up. Let me just take a quick look cuz I think I saw your insurance, too. Yes. Thank you, sir. Yeah. That looks like an older I'm a lawabiding citizen. That looks like an older one, but you probably still have Geico, I would assume. Uh, yeah. And I just went in with a new Are you on Are you on any medication right now or anything like that? No, sir. No, you're not being seen by a doctor, anything? No, sir. No, sir. Okay. Do me a favor. Just stay inside the vehicle. I live uh uh one block over here and one block to the right. Do me a favor. Just stay inside the vehicle and wait right here for me. Okay. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Okay, Ellen. Yes, sir. So, I am concerned about your ability to drive. Okay. Okay. But you're saying that you're okay, right? Yes, sir. Okay. So, what I'd like to do is have you step out of the vehicle and then we're going to do some exercises. You can show me that you're okay to drive and then we can get you in your car and on the on the way. All right. Uh my brother is uh Um um I'm not going to get out of my car. If you want to take me to jail or something, that's fine. My house is right on the other side of the street. Okay, I got you. I'm I'm asking you to do the exercises so I can see that you're okay to drive so I can let you go to your house on the other side of the street. Yeah. just just to just to show me that you're okay to drive, right? But I I live right here. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's we're just going to go right over here into the parking lot so we can do some exercises. Okay. Well, I don't think that's going to turn out so well. Why do you say that? I mean, thank you so much for being a civil servant. And I appreciate that. I was I was actually a criminology major in college. Really? I I was Where college? Well, Marquette University and uh Marquette and Can you do me a favor and just wait right here? I'm going to go shut off those flashing lights. I I think what you're going to do is you're do you want to are you going to put me in jail tonight? Well, I'd like to do the exercises to determine that you're okay to drive and that way. Ellen, I mean, how about if you just let me go home? Well, I'd like to do I want to do the exercises to make sure that you're safe to go home. That's that's my concern. I don't want Well, what if I just walk from here? What if I just walk from here? What about your vehicle? Your vehicle's parked in the middle of the road. So, let's just uh tow it. And did you know that you have a flat tire? Can you see the the tire there is flat? Yes. Yeah. Yes. You knew that? Uh I did I did understand that my tire was flat and my house is just like two blocks from here. I understand that. So would you guys be okay with me just walking home from here? Well, well, first let's let's go back over there and then we can do some of these exercises and then we'll get you on your way. Okay. I'd really rather just leave. I understand, but it's either you do the exercises or we're just taking you straight to jail. So, you have the opportunity to do the exercises and if you're okay to drive, we will let you go. Well, I actually don't want to drive. Okay. But you were already driving. That's that's why you were stopped, Ellen. Ellen, it's either Ellen. Okay, we'll go. We'll go right over here. Sure. Sure. Sir, sorry. Watch your step. Okay. Yeah, I I really understand. Okay. So, you see this yellow line right here? I'd like you to stand kind of like right here facing me. Actually, I'll I'll stand on this side. That way you don't have to look at so I have to walk it. No, no, we're not going to walk. We're not going to walk. I'd like to do a uh an exercise of your eyes. I'd like to check your eyes. Do you wear contacts or anything like that? Hey, uh do you understand that I am a single mother? Okay. Do you wear lives in Sarasota? Do you wear contacts or or glasses? I understand. I'm a single mom. Do you have any issues with your eyes? I don't think so. But do you understand? You don't wear glasses. I'm a single mother. You don't wear glasses or anything? Do you understand? Do you have any issues with your eyes? Sure. Yes, I do. What are your issues? What's the issues with your eyes? I uh I don't know what my issues with my eyes are, but I have But you can see cuz you were driving. Obviously, you can see at night, correct? I don't know. You don't You don't know if you can see. I have no comment. No comment. No comment. Can you Can you see me standing in front of you? What are my options right now? Well, your options are do these exercises so I can go to jail. My options right now to go to jail. I'm trying to let you know what your what your options are. Your options are you can do the exercises willingly and I can see how how well you perform and then determine whether or not you leave and go home or go to jail. or you can not do you can not do the exercises and then I'll have to make that determination based on all the observations I've made thus far. So would you like to do this exercise? It's an exercise of yours. I really like you and I was a criminology major in college at Marquette Marquette. Here let's let's go into this first exercise. You said that you can see correct. You can see that there's a little a light right here in front of you. Uh, I think I need to just go to jail or something. Like, what are you doing to me right now? Can you see this light? I have to just go somewhere, right? Can Can you see this light? Yes, of course you can. What color is that light? It's blue. Oh, okay. Perfect. Um, can you stand with your feet together, heels and toes touching? Right. There's good. Hands at your sides is perfectly fine. I'd like you to just keep an eye understand what you're doing to me. I'd like you to keep an eye on that blue light and then just follow it with your eyes and your eyes only. Feel free to blink. Okay. Feel free to blink. I know it's windy. Keep an eye on that blue light for me. Okay. I understand what you're doing. Can you keep an eye on that blue light for me? Sure. With your eyes and your eyes only. Sure. I understand what you're doing. And I'm very sorry for I know, but you're not looking at the blue light like I'm asking you to. I'm very sorry for doing what I've done. I'm so sorry. What have you done? What have you done? I'm just trying to survive. Be a single mom. Be a person who is I'm just trying to be a person who survives in this world. Who's the guy? Who's the guy in the passenger seat? Who is he to you? Uh just a a friend I met. Just a friend you met tonight. You don't really know him. No, you just met him tonight. See? Okay. Um, I I really I really really need you to be nice to me. I am I am I'm I'm going to be nice. I I to pay taxes. I own a house here in Sarasota. Okay. I own a house. Listen, what I'd like you to do is turn and then take a look at the lights that are right over there for me. Okay. Oh, careful. Watch yourself. And then put your hands behind your back. Okay. Okay. Don't move from right there. Okay. Okay. Where are you arresting me? Okay. You're going to put me in jail? You going to put me in jail? Hold on. I'm going to explain in just a second cuz I just want to Okay, it's fine. Everything's going to be okay. Okay. I am actually a Republican. I voted for child. Let's go over here. this time. At this time, you are under arrest for driving under the influence. Okay? And I and we will be going to jail. I'm going to have you stand right here. Okay. Presidential 10:15. I voted for President Trump. I really did. Okay. My little family. Do you have anything on you that's going to stick me, stab me, poke me? Anything like that? Any drugs? Anything like that? Nothing like that. Okay. This female officer here is going to search you before you go into my car. Okay. Nothing. I have nothing. I have nothing. I'm fine. It's fine. Do you want him Do you want him out of your car? I I just met him tonight. Okay. So, you don't want him to stay in your car, obviously, right? No. No. I just I just met him. I can't believe I'm being arrested. Hey, I'll follow in jail. She doesn't want him in the car. Yeah. Yeah. She wants him out of the car. We only do put in jail. Okay. Well, and then we're going to end up towing your car because it's got the flat tire. Okay, that's fine. We don't want to leave out the middle there. Thank you. Thank you. Huh? Uh yeah, if you can get to signal 14 from him, it's going to go it's going to go down as he's a passenger in the Okay. I don't know. I don't know that person's name. I don't know. You don't even know his name. He's a I think a illegal alien. He's an illegal alien, I think. So, I think he was illegal or something. Please don't be mean to me. Not going to be mean to you. Don't send me to El Salvador. No, that's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. I have friends in El Salvador who are my friends. Really? Yes. My brother. My brother-in-law is El Salvadorian. I do have friends in El Salvador who are my friends. Yeah, I do. And I feel so sorry for the people who fit there who are criminals. They are criminals. They are not criminals. It's okay. I don't mind being arrested right now. I don't know what happened and why I'm here. Well, you're you're under arrest for driving under the influence. Okay. You were driving on the wrong side of the road. You hit the curb and flattened your tire. Come pick up your car. Huh? What's that? Do you want your daughter to come pick up your car? Uh, yes. Yes. Okay. Um, what's her name? Is this your phone? Uh, yes. Okay. Did you want me to call her for you? Sure. Okay. I can't believe I'm being arrested by Sarasota police. I'm really sorry, you guys. How do I call it? Why is it selecting? I don't know. I If you guys could unop just uh let's see. Oh, no. Okay. Um is that my phone? Yes. Uh, can you uh hit uh Mike? Uh, where do I go? Do I go to the phone and uh hit Mike? Uh, Michael. Michael. This one? Yeah. Mike Mike. Why is it doing the selection thing? Do the mic. Let me see. Please. I don't know why you guys have me handcuffed. Okay. Okay, you don't hit the phone now. Okay. You want me to do that and search her and then get her in there? Okay. I'm sorry. Do you have anything sharp on your mouth? No. Any narcotics on No, not Yeah. This is Officer Martinez with the Sarasota Police Department. Is she okay? Is my mom okay? Your mom is okay. She's fine. She is unfortunate she is being arrested for driving under the influence. Oh my god, my shoulder is getting over. Um, so her vehicle, she has to let it go in the morning. It's like such important. Is there anything I can do? Uh, well, right now you can situate getting her vehicle over here. It does have a flat front tire. Um, we're over here at Fruitville and Lime in front of the coastal car. Call Mike War. Call her. Call Mike War. I don't I don't Can you tell her to call Mike? Do you want me to just call him? Tell her to tell Mike. It sounds like she's on her way. I don't even have Tell her to call Mike. You said Mike would be able to. Are you on your way over here, Katie? Yes. I'm just I'll be over there. I'll be there in literally 3 minutes. Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. This is my daughter. I feel really, really, really bad about doing this. My daughter just made a poor choice. I think Turn this way. Turn this way. You're a bad person. You just made a poor choice. Turn around. Just turn around. We're just trying to take your bag. Yeah. I'm trying to make sure your bag doesn't get caught up in the handcuffs. Yeah. We're going to have a seat right there. Where are we going? We'll go to the Sarasota County. Uh the jail. Yeah. Sarah Sarasota County Jail. Okay. I know it's not comfortable. It's not designed for comfort. So, just kind of situate yourself. If you can lean back, I'm going to reach across you and get the seat belt. Back tire. There we go. We're going to put this across your lap. Yep. I do have to ask you some questions. My daughter. She said that she had two. Um, that's what she said, too. Okay, I got to read this to you. I It's my rights. The Miranda rights. Actually, it's not the Miranda rights, but I can read those to you after this. This is actually your implied consent warnings. Okay. I am now requesting that you submit to a lawful test of your breath for the purpose of determining its alcohol content. Sure. Will you provide a breath sample? Absolutely. Okay. Yes. We'll take care of that once we get to the jail. Okay. Yes. All right. Hang tight. Oh, yeah. What's his You got his 14. What's his name? Christopher. Christopher. Hey, man. Listen. You're you're free to go. Okay.