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She's going to go I just took her I thought you said you're taking your daughter to your son's house. I just took her my daughter's to her husband's house. My daughter's house. My husband's house. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. It's a lot of It's a lot of shouldn't be that confusing. Okay. How much How much have you had to drink today? How much have you had to drink today? It's not on December fund 20 hours 24 at approximately Alendry 33 a.m. Officer Macauan with the Graves Lake Police Department responded to a report of a motor vehicle crash involving a 2015 Toyota RAV 4 in 2011 Ford Fusion in the vicinity of Abby Washington Street and N Lake Street. He arrived on scene and observed that the Toyota RAV 4 had sustained severe front end damages while the Ford Fusion had sustained severe rear end damages since fluids were leaking from the Toyota RAV 4 if the vehicle was disabled. Not a confusing question. I was just asking you where you're coming from and you coming up all kinds of weird stuff. How much how much have I had to drink today? Yes. Nothing. Okay. Um maybe we can get him over into the uh church parking. Let me just make sure there's no injuries. Sorry. He made contact with the driver of the Ravi 4 who was identified as Claudia Rhonda. The other driver told officer Garduno that he was driving about 3540 mph when he was struck from behind at a high rate of speed. Claudia was incoherent, but after some hesitation, she told officer Mcmahan that she had dropped off her three year old daughter at her father's house and she was headed back home. She denied consuming alcohol, but the officers observed indicators of impairment and detected the odor of alcohol on her person. I need Victor over here for translation. Hello. Hi. Are you okay? Yeah. No, I'm okay. All right. Is your car drivable, you think? Yeah. No, it's our our my car is drivable. I just I was making sure he was okay. Okay. Let's just uh You know what? Fine. We'll get uh we'll get hooked for two. We'll just get him here. All right. [Applause] 935 hook for two, please. [Applause] 55 from 37. Just wait for a translation. You guys can just sit in your cars for a little bit. Everybody's cold today. Just sit in your car. I'll come talk to you. You just let your car stay warm. Your car lost all of the important fluid on the road. It's not going to drive. All the purple on the or the pink on the road, that's your transmission or your coolant. So, we'll get you a tow. Dumb it down for me. Do I need to go? Do I need to go? It needs It needs repair. All of your All of the engine coolant or the transmission fluid is all on the road. All that pink on the road. Oh, no. Okay. So, we could we could drive it like 100 ft to get off the road. Yeah. But you can't you can't your engine's gonna seize up or it's going to catch on fire. One of the two. So, we'll get you a toe. Uh just a driver's license insurance card and I'll come grab some other information for you. Okay. I'm sorry. Please. That's your health insurance. Just your car insurance. Please. I'm sorry. Heard this. I was coming and she came to me and I was so disappear. Look how swollen I am. Yeah. No, I didn't need your credit card. Um, just uh Do you have a car insurance card? I do. Yeah, that's all I was looking for. [Music] And then just uh stay warm in the car. Um, you got your phone with you? Yeah, I do. Um, just have someone come pick you up. I I have my phone. I don't know if I have someone particular. Where do you live at? Grace Lake. Do you want to ride home? No, I could just drive there. I just don't know. I don't need This This never has happened to me before, so I don't know. What do you mean? Car insurance. Car insurance. Hold this. No, that's your health insurance. I'm looking for car insurance. Tony, where are you coming from right now? I I just dropped off my daughter to go see her son or her father. That's my That's my That's your driver's license. I'm still looking for car insurance. Okay. It's like the fourth time I've asked you for it. Okay. Well, I don't normally go for my driver's insurance. This is all I have. Do you maybe have it on your phone? Or how about this? What insurance company do you have? Uh, blue. That's your health insurance. Who do you have for your car? It' be like Progressive or State Farm or All State. I'm sorry. I'm like very My my hands are so cold right now. Can I go? Let's go sit. We'll go sit in the car. Yeah, we'll we'll go talk about it. Can you just see if she can find an insurance card? Let me run these real quick. Grab some basics. Okay. Can you look Can you ask them about the toe real quick? Is this car [Music] This thing's pretty pushed in. See [Music] [Music] Telephone report. Yes. Afternoon, sir. Can you give me about 10 or 15 minutes real quick? It's going to be for the Rav 4 right here. She lost all the all the pink whatever the transmission or coolant. The pink? Yeah. Trans. So, that's all down the road, but I'm going to do a quick investigation real quick. All right. So, it Why don't you give me like 10 or 15 minutes? Not a problem. You guys got here quick, too. This guy says he's going to the other guy here on this Fusion, he says he wants to drive it, but I guess maybe it's just the the trunk that got pushed in. He's not leaking any fluid and he wants to get it out of here. I thought for sure we were going to need that, but he says he can get it home. This one we'll figure out. I mean, I guess he just got the trunk pushed in on it. She's trying to drive away. I'm I don't know what she's doing. [Music] I I'm just moving over there. You're moving where? I'm moving over there. I Hi. Yeah, we'll take care of all that stuff. Okay. Yeah, he maybe he thought you were going to take off. No. Um here, come sit with me for a minute. I'm still trying to gather some information. Are you go and stand right over here for me? Okay. So, you said you're coming here. Zip up your jacket. Zip Zip up your jacket. Zip it up. Zip it up. So, you say zip up your jacket. Okay. Do you have gloves? No. Do you have a hat? No. Okay. You can Here, let me just pat your pockets down real quick. I live in place. Okay. Put your hands down. Put your hands in your pocket right now. Okay. So, you said you're you're coming back from driving your daughter somewhere. Yeah. To her to her son to her daughter's house. You're taking your daughter into her daughter's house? My son's daughter. I'm sorry. Her son's How old are you? I'm 30. Her daughter My daughter is 3 years old. She's going to go I just took her I thought you said you're taking your daughter to your son's house. I just took her my daughter's to her husband's house. Your daughter's house. My husband's house. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. It's a lot of It's a lot of Shouldn't be that confusing. Okay. How much How much have you had to drink today? How much have you had to drink today? It's not a confusing question. I was just asking you where you're coming from and you coming up all kinds of weird stuff. How much How much have I had to drink today? Yes. Nothing. Okay. So, the guy here tells me he's driving down the road and if you look at the back of his car, it's smashed in pretty good. That's not like a fender bender. That's a pretty I got the guy that I hit before tonight. Yes. That car right there looking at him because that doesn't make sense. The accident that we're we're doing an accident investigation, right? This black car that you drove into. I don't know what other accident you're talking about on a different day. You talking about the I don't know what you're talking about because I was just I was just taking my daughter to her son. So, you're involved in an accident right here, right now? Yeah. That's what we're talking about. Okay. So, that there's no confusion, we're talking about the accident that's involved right here, right now. Yes. How did this accident happen? I honestly honestly I can't remember because I don't I don't want to like make it sound like I'm like overstepping like me being a woman or whatever. Um I'm just asking how the accident happened. His Yeah. And I asked You're not overstepping on anything. I'm just asking how how the accident occurred. Yeah, I'm just um And if your hands are cold, put them in your pocket cuz it's a very cold day out here. I understand that. Thank you. Um No, I just I'm just taking her to her her father's house. And I understand that. So, and I and I honestly don't know how it happened. Can you explain to me in your own words what was going on just before the accident? Can I explain to you how? Sure, please. I can try. Okay, thank you. Um, I was with my daughter, my three-year-old daughter, and my car, and we were driving, I would assume so, on Washington Avenue, Washington Lake, and driving there. So, that's it. Um, so then you went you went and dropped her off at her father's house, right? Yeah. And that's all right. So then you're driving back from this man's house. Brown Lake. Brown Lake. Brown Lake. Okay. So you're headed home now to Grace Lake. Okay. All right. Where where are you right now? Grace Lake. Um right behind the library. I'm sorry. Okay. I went to the library. Right behind the Have you had anything you had anything to drink today? No. Nothing. No. Okay. What I'm going to ask you to do so uh just put put your feet I understand that and I'm not trying to frustrate you. I'm just trying to make sure that I understand fully what's going on and do what do what I need to do. Okay. So, it's Claudia, correct? Yes. Okay, Claudia. So, just you're being cooperative. Continue to do that. My name is Sean. I'm not here to get you in trouble. I'm just here to do exactly what I need to do. Okay. I think that there's more going on with this accident and I'm conducting an accident investigation. Okay. Okay. So, what the guy was explaining that he's driving down the road, his car is hit. Yeah. Pretty hard. Yeah. He wasn't stopped. His car was moving and look honestly and that thing's that thing's caved in. I know. I'm letting you know what this man told me. Yes. I wasn't here. Yes. So, I'm conducting an investigation. His car. So, sometimes I see damage like that when a car is stopped and someone's maybe like distracted on their phone or they're they're talking to somebody in the car and they hit someone who's stopped. He's not stopped. Yeah. Which means that your speed is going to be very fast, right? Yeah. So, these are the things I'm looking at when I talk to you. You have no idea seemingly what car insurance is. You've given him your Blue Cross card and you gave it to me like four times. You gave me a credit card. You gave me a whole bunch of other things. You don't even know what insurance company you have. You're getting ready to drive this thing away. You're all over the place. And I smell alcohol on your breath when you talk to me. So that's why I asked like, "How much have you had to drink today?" Okay. All right. So do what I'm doing here and just stand with your feet. Yeah. Uh together with your hands down at your side. Stand up straight. Based on his suspicion of impairment, officer McMahan asked Claudia to perform field sobriety exercises. The first exercise was the horizontal gaze nestagmus HGN test. During the HGN test, officer McMahan observed the lack of smooth pursuit, distinct and sustained nestagmas at maximum deviation, and the onset of nestagmas prior to 45 degrees. The second exercise was the walk and turn test. During the walk and turn test, Claudia failed to touch heel to toe on each step, turned improperly, and failed to keep her arms at her sides. The final exercise was the one leg stand test, and Claudia was unable to complete this test satisfactoryily. What I'm going to ask you to do is follow the tip of my finger with your eyes and your eyes only. Don't move your head. Just follow with your eyes from side to side. Okay? You don't have to do anything else. Can you wipe the tears out of your eyes? I know. Sure. All right. And just keep your hands down at your sides. When we're done with this, I'll let you put your hands in your pocket to warm up. Okay. Okay. Shouldn't take long. I'm following you. Nope. I haven't moved it yet. [Music] Okay. I'm sorry. [Music] Try not to move your head, please. Come over here. Put your hands in your pocket for right now. I'm going to ask you to put your your left foot in front of your right foot and just stand in the line right here for me, please. Okay. On this yellow line. This yellow line right here. Okay. Okay. No, I'm not asking you to do nothing. I just want you to stand there. just don't want. So, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you to stand like this with your foot all the way in front with your heel touching your toe. Okay? Please don't move. I'm going to give you some instructions and I'm going to demonstrate for you. Okay? Just remain like that. So, yeah, I'm going to ask you to begin. Not now. I'm going to ask you to take nine heel to toe steps forward with your heel touching your toe on each step. Go ahead and get back with your feet. It's called the start position. Go ahead and stand like this, please. Not now. But when I ask you to begin, I'm going to ask you to take nine heel totoe steps forward with your heel touching your toe on each step, staying online, keeping your hands down at your sides, and counting your steps out loud. You're going to take nine heel steps forward, heel to toe. Still not starting yet. Go ahead and get back in the start position. I'll let you know when to I'll ask you if you're ready, but I'm going to demonstrate for you, too. Please stand like this. Okay. Can you put your feet together? like I'm doing with your heel touching your toe. You're standing like this off to the side. I'm asking you to stand like this. So, you can't do it is what I'm what you're saying. This is it's as good as I'm going to get. Okay. Remain remain there. When I ask you to begin nine heel to toe steps forward with your hands down at your sides, counting your steps out loud, your heels touching your toe on each step. You're going to take nine nine uh heel to nine heel to toe steps forward. When we get to nine, you're going to take a series of small steps. You're going to pivot. Take nine heel to toe steps back with your heel touching your toe on each step, keeping your hands down at your sides and counting out loud. Watch me. It's going to look like this. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. When you get to 9, take a series of small steps. Pivot. Turn yourself around. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Do you have any questions on that? You don't think so? Now's the time to ask. Just step stay on the line. Have your heel touch your toe. Keep your hands at your sides, not in front of you. Count your toe uh your steps out loud. Yes. 94 9 back. Miss offline. Miss. Arms up. Miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss. Improper turns up. 10. No, not 10, but yeah, go ahead. Miss offline. Offline. Miss, Miss this. Okay. Um I just wanted to make sure the other driver that I crashed into, he's okay. Yeah. Yeah, he's okay. He's physically okay. His car is not so okay. All right, I'm going to do one more test. Go grab your teeth. Um, one last test here for me, please. Um, I'm going to ask you put your hands in your pocket for this portion right now cuz it is cold outside. My hands are cold, too, but I need to keep them down just to demonstrate. When I ask you to begin, not now. This is demonstration portion. Okay. When I ask you to begin, not now. Um, I'm going to ask you to do you have any physical ailment ailments like with a knee, hip, or back or shoulder, anything? Anything that will stop you from standing and going like this? foot and I'm going to ask you to raise the other one. So if you tore one ACL, you can raise that one if you'd like. Okay? So if you have I'm just asking you to pick a leg. You have two. Okay. So, if you got a good one and a bad one, it's it's your decision. Okay. Okay. So, when I ask you to begin, not now, I'm going to ask you to pick a leg to stand on and raise one about 6 in off the ground. It's about the height of a Coke can. Okay? That that foot is going to come off the ground. You're going to look down at your foot. You're going to count 1,00 1 100 1 2 100 3 1004 until I tell you to stop. It's going to be about 30 seconds. I'll tell you to stop. You're going to keep your hands down at your side. You're going to look down at the foot that you raise. Okay. I might I have to go to the bathroom. Okay. Well, we'll go in a little bit. We're not going right now. We're in the middle of a party. There's no there's no bathrooms anywhere out here. Okay. Okay. All right. So, again, stand like stand like so in front of me. You're you keep moving and drifting. Stand in front of me and face me here. You know what? Don't move. I'll face you. All right. I'm going to I'll stand on my left and raise my right. Okay. I'm going to look down on my foot. So, when I see it again, it's going to look like this. Not now. This is the demonstration course. Remember, I'll ask you if you're ready and then you can start. I have to show it to you and explain it to you so that you perfectly understand. And if you have a question, you ask me, okay? And I'll I'll be very kind with you. I'll answer any question that you have and I'll show it to you, okay? so that you know exactly what I'm asking you to do because I know sometimes people get nervous. Nobody's ever done stuff like this before. I totally understand it and again I'm not here to give you a hard time. What I'm telling you is I'm doing is I'm doing it a thorough and accurate job. Okay. I love you guys. Yes. Thank you. And we definitely appreciate that, Claudia. All right. So, I'm going to stand on my left and I'm going to raise my right. 1001. Again, not you, just me. 100,002 10003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 10123 1,567 1,9201223 1240 125 126270 1280 12930 At any point if you have to put your foot down, you pick it up, and you bring in wherever you left off at. Okay. I'm going to ask you to go just go until I tell you to stop. It's really not going to be more than 30 seconds. Okay. Okay. If if you feel better on one leg than the other, your choice. Just choose one to stand on and one to raise about 6 in off the ground. Okay. You keep your hands at your side. I really don't know, but yeah. You keep your hands at your side. On your side, not in front of you. You look down at the foot that you raise. You point your toe and you count 10,00 1,002 10003. If you have to put your foot down, you pick it up and you begin from where you left off. Four, five, six until until I tell you to stop. Okay. Do you have questions? Yeah. You do? No, I don't have questions. Okay. Whenever you're ready, the leg of your choice. Go ahead and begin when you're ready. You can raise your left or your right. Can you count out loud? One Mississippi. Two, Mississippi. Three Mississippi four Mississippi 5 Mississippi 6 Mississippi 8 Mississippi Keep going. Nine Mississippi 10 Mississippi 11 Mississippi 12 Mississippi 13 Mississippi 14 Mississippi 15 16 Okay. All right. I don't know if it would make a a big difference, but I did tear my ACL in 2011. Okay. Following the field sobriety exercises, Claudia was offered an opportunity to take a PBT, but she refused. So, this is a portable breath test. I'm going to ask you to provide a breath sample. It shows all zeros right now. You said, "Didn't you have anything to drink?" No. I I was always told to provide no So, that's totally within your per Let me Let me tell you what I'm saying. You're saying there's no alcohol. Yeah. I'm saying there there's an accident here. The cars were in an accident. You're showing signs of impairment. If you're not impaired, then what would be the why do you look impaired? Just my knees. Okay. So then this would be zeros, right? Do you want to show me that you're zeros? I I don't read. You don't feel confident in that? No, just because I So I'm letting you know right now I believe that you're too intoxicated to be operating a motor vehicle and I think that's why you got into an accident. Okay. This isn't really going to hurt you at this point. If you want to deny, that's fine. I'm going to offer you another one back there. I'm letting you know at this point I think you're too intoxicated to be operating a motor vehicle, and I'm going to take you into custody for driving while intoxicated. If you want to prove me wrong, you can. If you don't feel confident in that decision to do that, you don't have to. Okay. Can I I'm just giving I'm giving you the opportunity. Well, I just You want to go to the washroom at the station? Well, I just want to go home, honestly. I'll let I'll let you go home. I'm not keeping you. Have you ever had a DUI before? No. So, this is your first one? I'll have you out of here in a little bit and I'll have someone come pick you up, okay? Or we'll we'll make an arrangement. I'm not keeping you. I promise you're going to get out today. All right. I'm I'm very honest with you. I'll tell you everything up front. You'll probably be at our station for maybe an hour and then you can have someone come pick you up. You said you live in town. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to go home today. All right. But I don't Do you think I'll What do you mean? Like I'll explain everything to you. Okay. I'm going to put this in the car. Wait right there. Officer McMahan then placed Claudia under arrest for driving under the influence. She was handcuffed, placed in another officer's patrol car, and transported to the Gra Lake Police Department for further processing. All right, Claudia, go ahead and place your hands behind your back. Place your hands behind your back. Right now, you're under arrest for DUI. I didn't. Well, that was your choice. I offered to you. I'll offer it to you again. I have to move a jacket here. Ken, pull her sleeve up. Her sleeves caught in the handcuff. I'm putting these on loose, Claudia. So, don't try and wiggle out of them cuz I'm not trying to uh I had a lot of ladies, they have skinny wrists, so they'll wiggle out of the cuff. Please don't do that. Okay. I'm Can you hear me? You're staring straight ahead. I'm asking you not to do that. Victor's doing the groceries for the house full house and then yeah look for an insurance card. I'm sure there's insurance through your wallet before look in the glove box. Okay. Okay. [Music] Sit right over here for me. Do you have your purse in the car? Do you have anything in the car that you need? In the purse and I do need you both. Yeah. I'll let you go to the washroom when we get to the station. Okay. Go ahead and [Music] sit. No, just sit. Just sit normal. This is a seat belt. I'm just going to buckle in. Okay. We only got a couple minute ride and we'll be right there. You ever deal this when it was on? This is an old one. I I think I have hers up front. I'm not seeing. All right. Oh, this is your car, Ken. This is your car. Sorry. Oh, just drive her back. I'll drive her back. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Sorry, I forgot that I moved cuz I was trying to I was trying to find a spot where I could use a line in the parking lot. That's fine. Yeah, I'll drive back. All right. All right. 12hour plus insurance. Make sure that doesn't fall on the ground. That was gonna fall off the door. No. Yeah. Sorry. I I pulled around. No, that's fine. That's fine. It's all good. Thanks, man. I wasn't so sure that at the Grace Lake Police Department. The warning to motorist form was read to her and she agreed to provide breath samples. Her breath samples indicated a BAC level of 0.23% which was nearly triple the legal limit of 0.8%. All [Music] right, Claudia. Am I taking you to Yep. All righty. And where can I pick up my car? You got to come here first. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. I I can't come today. You cannot come today. Tomorrow morning. It's going to be 24 hours. Tomorrow morning. What? When can I come for my car? And where? Tomorrow morning. So, what time was your accident? What time tomorrow morning can I come and get my car? Anytime after 11:00. Perfect. Vernon Hills. What's that? Where? Grace Lake Police Department. Okay, I'm ready. All right. [Music] Do you work? 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