please like subscribe and consider supporting our Channel sharing this video serves a compelling public interest because it is intended to illustrate the consequences of driving under the influence and discourage others doing so defendants are considered innocent until proven guilty stay in the car stay in the car [Music] on December 30th 2023 around for 40 a.m. officers Michael Straton and Anthony and grafia with the Hoboken Police Department observed a 2007 kid going the wrong way on First Street and then driving at a high rate of speed and running through multiple red lights on Washington Street northbound they activated their emergency lights and eventually stopped the vehicle at Washington Street between 8th Street and 9th Street as they approach the vehicle they made contact with the driver who was identified as 23-year-old Courtney vasileski along with her 23-year-old passenger hello Hi how are you just know we have body cams recording officer Str police give your license registration Pro of insurance I don't have it on me but I left it at home but I have I have a license at Reg ation okay okay what why why don't you have you don't have what your license no I changed jackets so I left it in the other jacket and that's at home yeah and I just left work at the hatter at the hatter yeah okay I'm just bringing her home okay so you don't have a license on you no but my I have like my license is registered I'm sorry my license is registered your license is registered yes but I don't have it on me okay do you have the registration for the vehicle I just changed it this morning what does that mean my mom went to the motor vehicle this morning and changed over our registration to register this car in my name okay do you have the registration not yet so you have no paperwork in the car that says this I have the old one but it got re-registered this morning okay can you take it out of the paper and your name is Courtney Loi it's under my mother's boyfriend though it's registered to a yes that's your mom's boyfriend yes no that's my mom she must have changed it this morning to the you the insurance for the vehicle I have this receipt this must be from this morning okay that's that's not that's not your insurance do your insurance for the vehicle she just redid everything this morning cuz it was her boyfriend's car and I had to get it re-registered yeah cuz it's her boyfriend's car and he was letting me borrow it so I had to get it re-registered into my name okay and you don't have your license AR you I don't think so I had it in the other pocket of my jacket but no I don't okay anything to drink tonight no not no I was working at the hatter yeah anything to drink though no no alcoholic beverages no okay do you understand that you drove uh down the wrong way on a oneway street yeah the cop told me that I could just keep going but I made the wrong turn I don't live around here so I get confused with all the one ways so a cop told you to take a take a one way he told to make the right and go home cuz I explained to him that I took the wrong way home okay he just pulled us over and he told us to just make the right and go home so somebody told you to make a right turn there's definely cameras there that say it too there was told us CU I was going down the wrong way but he told me to just make the right and go down that the straight road which was this road can you verify that the another officer um spoke to these females about going down the wrong way on oneway Street uh on the first hson were they in a car what the other officer were they in the yes they were in the car okay pulled you over or what what did they do yes they pulled us over okay and they took all your paperwork and everything too no he didn't take any of our paperwork he pulled over to the side of us and told us to just make a right turn and go down the straight road so be on Washington yes and then you pulled us over sir okay I'm just trying to get home I had a long shift I understand I'm trying to make sure you're okay to be driving no I'm okay sir I swear to God I'm okay okay I'm just going to drop her off to my up the road and then I'm going to go home yeah we just got out of work sir we got out of work at like um 3:30 okay and then we were clean and then we were cleaning up so we could go home okay and you've had no alcohol tonight no not a single drop of alcohol maybe earlier in the night but not since like 10 p.m. okay so if I have somebody come to uh fields of variety test on you you you'll be okay you you'll pass the test I think so yeah but I don't think I eat that because I'm okay sir okay any alcohol for you tonight yeah no I Dr okay you have available [Music] stay the car you just stay the I just want to talk to him really quick oh him sir you're going to do a DUI on me sorry I just got out of work I just trying to go home understand officer strand asked Courtney for her license registration and insurance but she told him that she did not have her license she initially claimed that she had left her shift at Mad Hatter a sports bar in Hoboken although she would later tell the officers that she worked at a different place as they were interacting with the driver they detected the odor of alcohol and asked Courtney if she had consumed any alcohol Courtney initially denied having consumed alcohol but she would later admit to having to shots earlier that evening based on their suspicion of impairment they called for officer Anthony rosi to come and administer field sobriety exercises but I I want to make sure you're okay to be driving I'm okay okay listen I had like one or two drinks can I can I just pull over the car and Uber home do you believe you're incapable of driving the vehicle safely are you going to give me a DUI that's how to answer my question do you believe your saf I'm fine to drive but if you want me to pull over the car and Uber home I will I want you to be safe you're already driving so so I'll pull over the car and over home I'm not saying you're intoxicated but I'm going to have somebody come they're going to perform tests on you I don't I don't want to do all that okay but it's not up to you it's because I don't want to get in trouble then if you don't believe you should be driving then this was this should have been rectified before you started driving you should have called an Uber before you even got in the car please this to me please if you believe you're safe to be driving then you have nothing to worry about I don't know okay can I just how much have you had to drink two shots okay at what time like an hour ago can I just pull over the car in Uber home no not right now you're already driving everything's up body Cam being recorded So what's going to happen I'm going to have somebody they're going to come perform the test on you if you pass then you get to go if you don't pass you'll be placed under arrest for what do you want and how long will I be in jail for a couple hours so somebody can pick you up please don't do this to me I'll just park in my if you believe you're safe to be driving then you have nothing to worry about that's it can I just go home as soon as somebody comes and performs the test and you pass then you can go home please officer like I I work really hard for every day of my job 31 years see that do you have a photo of your license by chance yeah I [Music] [Music] do this is my old license this is my um 17-year-old license but that's me okay [Music] okay can you please just let me go I probably should I can't just let you go unfortunately you admitted to consuming alcohol I believe you may be intoxicated too intoxicated to be driving a vehicle so I'm I pull over and I just you're already driving we're we're past the point of you pulling over sir you should have never driven to begin with if you don't believe you're okay to be driving I thought I was okay okay I only had two you should have nothing to worry about can you just please let me you're going to have somebody come they're going to perform a test on you if you pass then you're good to go okay all right why can't but can I just pull over and go home no we're beyond that point again everything's recorded on body cam I can't just say why did you pull me over you went down the wrong way on a one street yeah but he told me that I was fine I asked my police nobody conf that did he or did he not say we were F to she's saying it too there the officer that pulled us over okay well then they should have pulled you over and had a better conversation with you he told me just to make the right and I'm I don't live around here I live in Wayne so I don't understand all the streets you here you work here so you should be familiar for four months okay but I don't understand all the oneway streets okay so it confuses me so I made the wrong right turn onto a oneway street okay it happens yeah it happens and now I'm now so I pulled you over to make sure you're okay to be driving yeah I understand that but I just don't want to get a DUI well I don't want you to get a DUI either but I just want my mom to come pick me up so I can go home okay why do we have to do all this right now I I'm I'm telling you that I I'm I'm pulling the car over and I'm going to have my mom come pick me up to go home okay but we're again we're beyond that right you were already operating the vehicle you drove 10 blocks maybe right cuz we first we saw you on first in Washington that's when we first saw you we're now on Ninth in Washington so you drove nine blocks and it took us nine blocks to catch up to you I understand I don't know how fast you were going I can't really 25 okay I just don't want to get a GUI like I work really hard for my job and I I'm I'm like I have no money like I I I don't know what you want me to do I want you to not drive while you're in toxicated I want you to Uber home if you're intoxicated if you don't believe you're okay to be driving then I want you to Uber home I only had two CHS okay so if you if you believe you're okay to be driving okay then you have nothing to worry about okay so this officer here is going to perform some test on you he'll ask you some questions and go through his thing okay and we'll go from there uh so we she came down the one way um First Street made the right on onto Washington and then Boogie so by the time we made a u-turn and then caught up to her this is where we stopped her um she she's called she Che her licensees yeah West from first okay she just admitted to takeing Two Shots about an hour ago what's her name she hi courney yes okay do you have any do you we glasses or contacts or anything like that I have glasses but I don't have them on me okay this uh walk the sidewalk me y watch the comeone are using the last name of the thisle you know why I'm here because has drank a little bit tonight so I'm here to perform some test on you that's okay with you okay so you wear no glasses I do wear glasses yes oh you want to put them on now I don't have them you don't have them no officer rovski started with the horizontal gay nagus hgn test during the hgn test he observed the lack smooth Pursuit distinct and sustained nystagmus at maximum deviation and the onset of nystagmus prior to 45° the second exercise was the walk and turn test during the walk and turn test Courtney stepped out of line once and did not touch Heel To Toe on each step the final exercise was the oneel leg stand test and Courtney displayed a lack of balance put her foot down three times and did not count in the correct sequence do you normally wear eyelasses always always yes you have or contacts but I'm not wearing my contacts tonight you don't have contacts either okay not any po just my lava and um yeah it's fine it's just like aot my keys and everything makine no weapons like that so I know it's cold out can you see the pen I'm holding yeah what color is the pen man like a purplish blue okay so I need you to follow pen the tip of the tip of this pen with your eyes and your eyes only keep your leg straight you understand it mhm okay again just favor keep your head straight okay follow dep front your eyes only [Music] [Music] so I know you told how how many how many drinks do you have tonight two you have two drinks anything else I have two shots that's it two shots and what cost Amigos how long ago was that at 10: p.m. cuz it was my work co-worker's last day of [Music] work can you take anything else no that's it that no I swear to God that's it two shots that's it we got two more quick tests okay any issues with your legs any pain in your legs your ankles your feet so you should have no problem walking I should be [Music] fine okay come down here man up this way what's I'm sorry what's your first name Courtney courney okay so see this line yep just come over here and you're going to face this way uh-huh okay face face turn around mhm so see this line down here yeah what you're going to do is you're going to place your left foot uh-huh on that line Y do that now you going take your right foot and place it in front of your left foot now stay like that don't move just okay one more time just okay go back go back to just stand straight now just pay attention don't walk I just need you to stand in a certain way okay so take your left foot put it on that line take your right foot and place it in front of your left foot like I'm doing just like that now do not do not move don't start walking keep your hands down at your side okay what you're gonna do is you're gonna take nine steps going forward counting out loud and keep your hands down like I'm just watch me one two three all all the way to nine once you get to nine you're going to turn around take another nine steps touching heel toe and count loud one two three over nine okay keep your hands down and count l Good 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 68 okay just you um you want to tie that shoel for me [Music] please okay let's test test are you righty Lefty I'm righty okay so you're going to pick you're going to choose one foot just watch me don't start yet uhhuh you're going to raise it about 6 in above the ground like I'm doing okay with your toes with your toes up okay keep your hands down you're going to count loud 1 1,000 2 1,000 3 1,000 until you say stop if I was sober or not I couldn't count to to 1,000 not count to one I didn't I didn't graduate high school okay so again if if you don't want to do the test you don't have to but can I do like 10 20 30 no you can't say 1 100,000 2 100,000 3 1000 a lot why is that a lot I don't know it's a lot of math there's no math you're counting you just count to 10 1 1,00 don't do yet so again raise it about 6 inches above the ground all right you're going to keep your hands down all right and you're going to count out loud don't start yet keep doing it until I say stop all right go wait no not yet you have any questions no okay begin 1 1,000 2 1,00 3 1,00 4 keep going 4 1,00 5 1,00 6 1,00 7 1,00 8 1,000 9 1,000 10 1,000 11 1,000 12 1,000 13 1,000 14 1,00 15 1000 16 1000 17 1000 18 1000 18 19 1000 20 1, 21 1, 22,00 23 1,00 24 1,00 25 stop okay oh yeah uh So based on her erratic driving the odor of alcohol her admission to consuming alcohol earlier that evening and her inability to perform the field sobriety exercises Courtney was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated her vehicle was impounded for a mandatory 12-hour hold under John's Law Officers rovski and in graphia transported Courtney to the Hoboken Police Department for further processing man tonight you place on with okay I find you BL p is oper when am I going to go home don't pull away answer that question can I call my boss you make phone calls when we get back to where's my car going to go it's have somebody can come pick it up the passenger [Music] drunk there that back on you can I TR phone my mom comes at me your mom's not to come at I have to pee though yeah just check hold on hold on you have a bag on you no what's this hand my phone and my lava it's my pocket does this come off no this fanny pack doesn't come off oh my fanny pack yeah I thought you that's just all my money from work tonight please don't take it you have anything in your pockets nope just my phone and my [Music] laa my work stuff you have no weap can I keep my lava in my pocket no what this PE now yeah just in case someone mugs me in this [ __ ] pound U What You Get U Uber you B yep I'm a bottle girl you have to can you call my boss cuz he's freaking out he keeps calling me please take out my phone and call my boss please please please please he called me four times please no pleas get back no no no no please please please please you called me four times gra seat no said she didn't have a there 3 that's one female you have a female Service headquarters pleas start okay uh take a ride with him up the headquarters get her in the alal test room uh I wish the toe go I ask on the Chain the key chain in the car keys yeah yeah can you turn the car off for me take the keys out press just take just turn it all right up up yeah yeah no I still need it yeah what we going up do you have the um the vine and your yeah that's cominging up yeah car what do you need I'm I'm prescribed it's in my passenger seat like if I don't have it for the night I I I need it it's in your passenger seat yeah in my passenger do you have the prescription for it I don't have the prescription on me now okay you need it's in my passenger seat there's no prescription and we're not going to man we're not going to bring you okay what do you need it for any anxiety yeah anxiety because I have so much anxiety I have a dead father [ __ ] up life so I you can't back the city I work at this [ __ ] from a broke [ __ ] and I get arrested hey Mike she's saying she has on the other seat it's in the uh I don't know if you want bring it up for evidence or not it's up to you it's not evidence it's okay what is she saying any other any other passenger seat the passenger seat right don't take it okay so leave it there okay you believe it it's yes check it she's saying it's for medical purposes but it's not over there here I got you it's by the seat it's in there I I would bring it up as evidence no it's not evidence it's my my no no no no that's okay well we have no l we'll talk to our our boss okay you're I'm not saying it's illegal but yeah you are you just me out go for 103 over call for fireworks in the area of 10ch no on the people 103 copy show me a route uh transporting one female 1025 to headquarters 74 8834 can you guys like do something about this 2 minutes I'm Sorry by you have offic standing by uh myself and his spawn making our way to a course it's legal but we still can uh drive while oh who's your boss where do you work do you smoke at work no neither do I exactly okay one3 I'm going 20 um do we have a better description who's your boss call my boss yeah you saying your boss you you have to call your boss back okay who's your boss well you're going to have to tell us who to call if you want to call somebody we can't just hand you a phone Mom okay that's fine you're not taking my so my oh okay all right I don't work I at what so you li you told me you work that mad out huh so which one is it I don't know [Music] Right congratulations good the to just take this in or come back and get it that's everything got this 16 or 20 uh 74 88 4.2 like no you bring it up I'll carry it you going to get her yeah I'll get it yeah man we'll bring it to man stay right there not going to run well you ain't going to go far anyway you don't help your hands at the police station Corney was read the standard statement for motor vehicle operators and agreed to submit breath samples for testing her Alco test results indicated a back of 0.1 4% which was nearly double the legal limit of 0.08% iack I in track at high school buddy okay this way yeah I've been do this before oh yeah huh oh yeah yeah yeah I got it please don't come on [ __ ] up business Christmas passed like two days ago Christmas pass like two days ago yeah so Christmas GI over look at the wall okay this way [Music] sorry right in here have a seat sure can I go to the bathroom okay I don't have anything on me all right it's it's just poliy can you can I go to the bathroom yeah we'll bring you in a minute like when one minute we'll bring you okay do this I didn't know she goes in here but you normally put them in here for a 20 minute OB yeah okay I put this by [Music] sorry sir on there nice driver than for evidence yeah come on you do you're doing it correctly but don't do it like that grab [Applause] it around 7:20 a.m. Courtney was released to her mother around pending her court appearance she signed the potential shared value warning form on Courtney's behalf officer Straton issued her the following summonses operating Under the Influence reckless driving Failure to observe traffic signal and failure to exhibit documents driver's license another this guy was said