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On this police body cam ride along, a child calls for help as his father drives drunk, and moments later, officers rush in as the driver refuses to stop. >> He was like like swerving a little bit. He almost hit a pole. Get out of the On January 10th, officers responded to a 911 call about a drunk driver with a child inside the vehicle in Port Charlotte. The driver was swerving and putting the child at risk. As officers closed in, the situation quickly escalated. White 10 Central copy tight. Copy that. 89 Edward, red Honda just left the parking lot. As I try to approach it, he's making a right turn. Been updated. 10-4 you're able. Hey, get out of the car. Out. Out now. Get out Yeah. Hey. What's up, dude? Come on. What's What's going on with you? Nothing, sir. Nothing? Stand up. You want to stand up? Trying to. Hey. What's going on, dude? Nothing, sir. You got any health issues or are you just drinking or what? I I have PTSD and I have anxiety. Yeah, what? I have PTSD and anxiety. PTSD? And anxiety. Yes, sir. Are you diabetic or anything like that? Uh uh Uh? Yes, sir. Yes or no? Uh I I had uh You were saying that, dude? Yes, sir. All right, let's stand up. One foot in front of the other one, dude. Come on. Move your legs. Yes, sir. This is normal. Look, buddy. Where'd the kid Hey, where'd the kid go? He's right there. He's sitting down. I'll go this way, buddy. This way. I can be willing to do a fan or standard field sobriety. I will still not do sir. No? I will still not do. Okay. Do they have the legal right to search the car? Say what? Do they have the legal right to search? Uh yeah, you're you're going to jail, buddy. So, yeah. If you don't want to do field sobriety, that's on you. Yes, sir. Take a seat, buddy. Take a seat. You you you can lean in. Just lean in. Watch your head. We can just hang out here for a minute, buddy. I'm sorry. I just I have a heart condition. No, no, you're fine. >> to make sure he was okay. >> You okay, buddy? You need a hug? Yes. Come on. I'll give you a hug, buddy. >> [laughter] >> So sorry. I I felt compelled to help him. I'm so sorry. >> You're fine. You're fine. I feel bad, but Listen. You're in good hands. I promise you, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're fine, man. You're not the brother or something? No, it's just a guy that pulled over. Saw the kid upset. That's his kid. I'll go this way, buddy. This way. All right, it's definitely fruity and definitely a fruity flavor. Just make sure we do this by the numbers. Smell the the alcohol on him, all that stuff. Or just maybe put your legs out. Let them breathe since you have sweaty feet, you said, right? Yeah. You're fine there. You stay there. Stay in there. Yes, sir. Stay in there. Stay. Stay sitting. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> Sit down. He didn't say anything. I don't know. He didn't say anything offensive like to you, towards you, or anybody. Yes, ma'am. When you you're driving, right? And if the police puts the lights on, you have to stop, right? It's normal procedure. So, if you didn't stop, maybe that's why cuz we have to make sure, you know? I have I have very responsible person. Mhm. What do you have PTSD for, miss? Uh I live in Colombia. Mhm. They tried to kill me and my family. Mhm. Uh the order was for them to kill me. Uh okay. And I ended up my mom and my dad. Uh just got to survive. Mhm. And that's the only way we came here. Okay. All right. I'll see what you're saying. He is okay. He's being taken to school now, okay? He just He's going to be a little bit, but he's going to school, okay? He's good. Yeah, uh grandma or somebody's picking him up to take him to school, okay? Yes, sir. All right. All right, guys. All right, guys. You guys family? No, actually. No, actually. I saw the car and I was like I saw him stop. Okay. Yeah. Yes, no, thank you. So, can you just kind of tell me what happened this morning? You guys were Were you guys drinking this morning? Have you been up all night or what's going on? So, I woke up and I went in and when I heard him sleeping, cuz I just took a shower. And then whenever I woke up, I mean, not woke up. Whenever I got out of the shower, he was still sleeping. So, then I just told him to wake up and then he did. Does he usually get up with you in the morning? He Yeah, he Yeah, he never goes back to sleep. No, he usually wakes up with you? Does he work? >> I Huh? Does he work? Okay. When I whenever I checked his cabinets, he had like five vodkas in his cabinets. And then like most of them were empty. So, you found five empty bottles of vodka? >> Not all of them were empty. We just went to school and then whenever I realized something was off, like his eyes were like dozing off. What Say that again. I didn't catch that. >> Yeah, his eyes were like dozing dozing off. >> Okay. Okay, so how far away do you live from here, I guess? I'm not exactly sure Yeah. Like right now? Yeah. Like A couple minutes? >> 10 minutes? So, he drove all the way to school and you said he was dozing off? Yeah. >> At like a Like he was like like swerving a little bit. And he was stopping at green lights and he almost hit a pole. Okay. And I I called my mom five times and she wouldn't answer. So, I called my mom and she said to call you guys. All right, so you called your mom first or five times and then you called your Okay, what is your Is that who helps else helps you out, not your mom? >> yeah. I told him to pull over. Yeah. Did you see us back there? So, what did he say? He said to talk He kept saying to talk to the lady. He wants to talk He wanted to talk to the lady. Okay. And that's it? All right. Did he say anything as he was approaching this area before you when you were able to get out of the vehicle? Were you trying to get out of the car before >> Yeah, I was going to get out of the car either way cuz I didn't want to be in the car with him. Right. That makes sense. Yeah, you did the right thing, man. I know Dad, but >> [clears throat] >> you know, you don't you don't want to be They don't need to put you in that situation either, okay? Grandma. Okay. So, that's your son, the driver who drives that car is your son? >> Yeah, this is the first time I don't know how working all that is stuff. Okay. So, your son was drinking alcohol, took him to school. He is driving so erratically, he calls us up. Like, "Oh my gosh, I'm scared. I'm I'm really scared of what's going on here." I mean, I don't know exactly the words, but that's what we all got over the radio. Okay, I really I don't care because he he is one person. He's drunk. He's drunk. He's a drunk? I don't know. I don't know. He's >> Does he drink a lot? No. He is today. Okay. Yeah. That is my That that is my No, I know. I mean, so That is my point. I am so so mad. So so mad. Yeah. You you should be mad and that's okay, okay? But right now You put your grandma in a lot of danger. So, be mad with your son, but make sure you love your grandma, okay? No, no, no, I going to take care >> And now I going to take care of him. I going to make one one one statement. He's going to live with me. And he's going to stay with me all the time. Go over what we got for charges. Uh yeah, so we got DUI. We're going to have probably DUI refusal. Um we're going to have resisting without. We're going to have a felony fleeing to elude. Hey, do you want somebody to come and check you like EMS, the ambulance and things like that? Check you out? I I need some medicine. Do you feel like you need you're going to do something to yourself, hurt yourself, or hurt somebody else? Look at me, man. Mhm. I can't make it back to school. Mhm. So Okay. All right, so you don't need So, you don't need EMS to come and right? That's We confirmed that, right? I feel like I have a bad good feeling. Okay. He said he's having an anxiety attack. But he can't confirm deny that he's I just told you. Okay, so do you need the ambulance to come and check you out? Last time. Yes, and yes. Okay, yes. Just this once. How are you guys doing? Jorge Gutierrez Gonzalez was arrested after fleeing from officers and refusing to comply during the stop. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
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