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No, you can come here. We just want to make sure. Around 9:23 p.m. on January 8th, 2024, officer Blake De meter with the hope will Township Police Department responded to a motor vehicle accident involving a 2019 Volkswagen Jetta on Harbor Rocktown Road in the vicinity of Harbor and Mount Airy Road. When he arrived on scene, he observed other assist the driver in exiting the vehicle. The vehicle had sustained damages and there was airbag deployment inside the vehicle. The driver was identified as Carolyn. Okay. I am okay. I'm I'm totally okay. I don't want to. No. I know that ambulances cost like a lot of money. No, we don't charge anything. We don't charge anything. This is a no charge. There's no charge. There's no charge going in there. Get checked out. Whatever the case, I'm really I'm really okay. I'm really okay. I'm shaking up. I'm just I'm just shaking up. I'm okay. Like nothing. I don't feel anything. I'm okay. All right. No, I'm okay. Thank you. I'm sorry. We're going to uh the airbag explode. The airbags did Did Yeah. Did it hit in your face? No. Okay. You were able to self. I was able to get out of the side of the car because of some people that helped me. right here for right now. Watch out, guys. You're absolutely sure you don't want it to be technology. No, it's just it's just an thing. Are you okay? I don't feel in any way. Yeah. Okay. Get a piece of paper if you sign the ambulance and fill. We're not going to check you out. I just want No, I know. I just I don't want to. Yeah, but watching Yeah, we're just It's just a waiver saying that you're refusing medical attention. That's all it is. There's nothing. It's part of our record. That's what we have to do, right? If you don't want to 100% there's no money. There's no money. Volunteer squad. There's no charge. Ben, just watch yourself. guys called JCP and that's a Verizon poll. So just going to get here in 2 hours and tell you to [ __ ] off. Yeah, that's Verizon. That's right. Yeah, pretty just going to get here 2 hours later and tell you basically. How you doing, guys? I'm good. Yeah, right. Fire timer is on. It's all low voltage. All right. So, there's no power lines attached. I'm no expert, but that does look like power wise, but they're saying it's not. I mean, yeah. No, definitely won't touch it. Oh, cuz I see that that see that line. Yeah. Back here. Oh, yeah. I see what you're saying now. Yeah, that checks out. It's not going to be too heavy. stupid. Seven. police report. Yeah, it looks like you can see the tire marks right here. Adam came off the road and then where where did you see one of my conies? Yeah, okay. You already saw it. Gotcha. Yeah. So, there's a cone back there. That's exactly where she Yep. She must be going fast. It's not really not that icy. She seems to be okay. You're a print now. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Okay. Ma'am, you might want to You want to come back over here? Yeah. Come back over here. I'm okay. I just I'm I'm a little shaken up. Okay, we'll come over here. I have I have an anxiety disorder and I'm having like a little bit of a panic attack right now. I don't want it to reflect poorly on me because of like how I'm acting. Okay. Um, so I'm Are you good here? Pretty good. We just uh you know she No, I'm okay. I just I I'm very scared. Later, if you change your mind or something, just call 911. Okay. Uh, sure. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Um, so here here's my question to you for you want to do field sobriety testing. Okay. So you're refusing to do the field soiety test. I'm okay. Officer I'm asking more time. Listen to me. Shaking up so much. Listen to me. Listen to me right now. Okay. Giving you the option to do the test. You do not want to do it. Then we're just going to move forward in our investigation. Okay. All right. As the officers were speaking with her, they observed indicators of impairment. Carolyn told officer Deer that she blacked out before she crashed. She also claimed that the icy roads contributed to the crash. First responders arrived on scene to evaluate Carolyn, but she declined further medical attention. Based on the officer's suspicion of impairment, Carolyn was asked to perform field sobriety exercises. However, she declined to participate in field sobriety exercises and she was placed under arrest for driving under the influence. Turn around. All right. Put your hands on your back. You're under arrest for DWI. What? Yep. I think we should be good. Yeah. It's a refusal. You refuse? [Music] Double lock. All right, man. We're going to walk to the back of my car. Wait, how do I refuse this? Yeah, you Well, you refuse testing, so just walk over here. You can't. No, that's not true. Well, you just refused testing. All right, ma'am. So, you're stand right here. I'm just going to pat you down real quick. Just very light. Pat you down. Okay. All right. So, back seat. You're going to be videoing all recorded at all times. Back seat is queer and weapon to consent. Sorry, I don't understand. Sir, we need an operator or How does this work? Just because I denied. I'm sorry. Just because I denied. One second. Just let me talk, please. Ma'am, please don't please don't touch me. Okay. Um, excuse me. Say again. What's your question? Wait. So, cuz I deny No, you're being arrested for the suspicion of driving while under the influence. Okay. Whether or not you wanted to do the test, okay, that was just going to help you if that's the case. But we are you're suspecting. You're under the influence. I'm sorry. What would the test do? It helps us. Do you want me to do the test? It's too late. It's too late now. You You refused. Like I said, you're going to be videoing all recorded all times in the back seat. Okay. I Well, like I said, you're arrested for WI driving while under influence. You refuse to do the testing and we're going further investigation. Now you're under arrest. Well, again, anyone who does that is obviously saying they don't drink. That's not true. Ma'am, please go in the back seat. Ma'am, please go in the back seat. I'm not trying to like resist arrest. You are resisting right now. Can you please go in the back seat, but this is like You're making this worse for yourself. I don't know what to do in this situation. You are making this worse for yourself. Please sit down. Let's go. Let's go. Like I said, you're videoed and already recorded in this back seat. Okay, dude. I can't get in. All right, I'll help you. Okay, let's pull my Yeah, let's Come on. You got to get in the back. Officer, man, sit up real quick. I I I'm your in This is insane. I can't even like get my phone to like We'll grab all that stuff and bring it back to the station. Okay, stay right there. All right. After she was placed under arrest, her vehicle was impounded for a 12-hour hold according to John's law. Officer Deer transported Carolyn to the Hopewell Township Police Department for further processing. 5067 of Hopewell. Starting mileage vehicle 220 to 30. One came out. 5067 142 95 142 95 142 1 95 212. Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. So, because I didn't So, a refusal that means you didn't want to conduct the field sobriety test. That means we further our in investigation and now you're placed under arrest for DWI. If you refuse, you get placed under arrest. And I can smell odor alcohol from your persons. In the circumstance, you crashing a vehicle. I didn't crash the vehicle. The fact that we believe they're under public works advisor. We're going to be bringing barricades out to the intersections. Receive engine. What? What's going to happen with my car? It's going to have to get towed to where to the um wherever I think it's Kobe. So, it's going to be placed on. So, how it works, you're not going to be able to get your vehicle. I believe it's 24 hours. Thanks, Bob. Thanks, So if I did a field sobriety test, I'd be okay. Now what's going to happen is you're going to be pulling test at the department now. So you're still going to be getting you're going have to coordinate everything, but you're still getting charged with the FBI. So if you have a field surviving works that you refuse to do that you can go further and investigate and give you a moral help you more under the influence you refuse to do that. Do you understand how that's confusing gave you any opportunity to compile? I was complying. I didn't understand that the other option was to be arrested. [Music] Hey, where do you live? I live in Are you going to have Are you going to be able to have someone pick you up? I don't I don't know. I don't have my phone. want to come back to the station. I'm sorry. What was that? We're going to bring all your personal stuff back to the station. Okay. Uh when I have my phone, yeah, I'll be able to call somebody, but I don't know anyone's number off at the top of my head. Okay. You said you're going to have 135 Yeah, go ahead. Well, tomorrow intersection very What station are we going to? Oh, Hello. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Uh, what's the problem with my car? What's going to happen with my car? Do you know where it gets towed to? Where have all the Heat. Heat. Are you the registered owner of the vehicle? Say your name. 67 grinding. 14220 14220. Thanks. Close it. at police headquarters. Caroline was read the standard statement for motor vehicle operators and agreed to submit breath samples. Her alco test results indicated a back level of 0.167% which was about double the legal limit of 0.08%. She was later released to a sober adult her court appearance after he signed the potential shed lady warning form on Caroline's behalf. Caroline was issued the following citations. Operating under the influence and reckless driving [Music] man. Sorry little drop. Yeah, actually was clear here. should take you right into that doorway. So, unhook you real quick. As you can see in the [Music] bench, sorry, as you can see. All right. I'm just have to hook you to this [Music] handcuff. All right. Right here. Is that okay? Mhm. Double lock. It's a little tight, but Is it tight? A little bit, but it's okay. All right. Get it. You got You got plenty of room in here. There you go. All right. Just give me a second. Okay. Sure. What do I do without the phone? Like, how do I We're going to We're going to bring it back. You have to put the car up and then we're going to have the phone and everyone's going to bring it back. Like, you understand how this is like really jarring, right? How? What do you mean? How? You're pushed under arrest for DWI. refused to do our testing. I have refused. Now, you did you said you refused about five times six times. Okay. So, if I refuse to do the test, correct? You're placed under arrest for DWI because we have the further investigation of that you're under influence. You can smell alcohol in your breath and you refuse testing. So, you're placed under arrest for DWI. That's how it works. That's how how it works. Okay. Okay. Heat. Heat. Okay. Okay. Sure. Sure. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. It's insane. It's crazy. Okay. Okay. Okay. Heat. Heat. Oh my god, this Let's see. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Why wouldn't you tell me that a field sobriety test wouldn't would like result in arrest? That's crazy. fully able to do it. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I don't know. Um, I'm waiting for him right now. I'm doing the questionnaire. I'm going to start it. Yeah. Yeah. He said to do that and then at the end of it start it. No. Heat. Heat. All right, ma'am. I'm going to read off a few things for you. Okay. Okay, go for it. Said you've been arrested for dry while intoxicated NJSA 39450. The wall requires you to submit samples of your breath for the purpose of testing. Determine alcohol content. A record of taking the breath samples included test results will be made upon your request. A copy of that record will be made available to you. After you have provided samples of your breath for testing, you have the right at your own expense. Have a person or your physician or own selection take independent samples of your breath, blood, or urine for independent testing. If you refuse to provide samples of your breath, you'll be issued a separate summon for refusal. The court may find you guilty of both refusal and driving while intoxicated. If the court finds you guilty of refusal, you'll be subject to various penalties, including a license, relocation up to 20 years, a fine up to $2,000, installation of ignition interlock, and referral to intoxicated driver resource center. These penalties may be addition to penalties imposed by the court for any other offense of which you are found guilty. You have no legal right to have an attorney, physician, or anyone else present for the purpose of taking breath samples. You have no legal right to refuse to give or delay giving samples of your breath. Any response from you that is ambiguous or conditional in any respect to my request that you provide breath samples will be treated as a refusal to submit to breath testing. Even if you agree to take the test but then do the follow do not follow my instructions, do not properly perform the test or do not provide sufficient breath samples, I will charge you for refusal to submit breath testing. I repeat, the law requires to submit samples of your breath for testing. Will you submit the samples of your breath? Just a yes or no. All right. So, if I ask for an attorney, it's no, it's just a yes or no answer. Is it? Yes. It's just a yes or no answer. I don't Is it like you and hello? Yes. It's a yes or no answer. It's if you said no, then it's a refusal. So is it if I say no, it's a refusal. Then you're getting charged for I guess I might read it. I can read it over again if you want. No, I I you and me. It It's a refusal to to what? Give samples and then you get your separate charge for that ticket. So you get a separate charge for refusing to give breath samples. Correct. It's just a yes or no answer. That's just what? Yes. Yes. You understand how that's confusing? Yeah. I guess that is right off. If you want me to read again for you, I get it. But I don't you understand how that's confusing and also unfair. I can read this other part. So, your answer is not acceptable. The law requires that you submit samples to your breath testing. If you do not answer or answer within other than yes, I will charge you with refusal. Now I ask you again, you want to submit question charge someone with refusal. Like I said, it's just a yes or no answer. That's because you if you don't answer yes, then you will be charged with refusal. So being I'm sorry, I just want clarity. Being charged with refusal means what? You're getting a separate charge and you're getting charged with DWI. So both. Correct. So if you just say yes, you're not getting the charge of refusal. Correct. Yes. Sure. It's yes or no. Yes. Yes. Okay. So, now we're going to start the 20-minute observation. You might open your mouth to see if there's anything inside your mouth. With your tongue up, your tongue up, like up to the sky. There you go. Okay. All right. I'm going to start my 20 minutes now. It is 10:22. So, you can't like burp, throw up, or anything like that. Just you can't put your hands in your face. Okay. Then we have to restart the whole 20 minutes. You do. Is it just sitting here with you? Yep. Cool. That's how it works. Do you have uh can I have water? Not right now. Once you finish all the testing, we'll get you water. Okay. Yeah. No, I appreciate that. No problem. Can you understand how this is like scary as [ __ ] I understand it's definitely scary in your eyes. Like terrifying. We have to do our job. That's I absolutely understand it. I help family support authority and all that stuff. Not trying to like No, no, no. I know. You know, I get it. You're doing your job. It's just it's like I slid off the road and then it was like everyone in my [ __ ] face and I'm like, "What the [ __ ] I don't even know what just [ __ ] happened." And I get it. Your job keeping everyone safe. Make sure you're okay first. That's our main concern at first. Yeah. We do want an ambulance or anything like that. We don't want an ambulance cuz you and I both know that's expensive as hell. It doesn't cost anything. Like I said, it does explain to you. It didn't cost anything. You can't I feel like you can't trust them. It's really hard to like trust authority nowadays, unfortunately. not your not your problem but uh in the eyes of a lot of people who are just like struggling it's like who do you trust you know okay so this is just like an observation period yeah just 20 minutes that we're just sitting here so after that we'll start the testing there's another officer that's going to be doing the testing okay and he will be here shortly and then we'll do rest and all that good stuff. Yeah. Do you normally just sit in silence or I'm I'm very like me too like I'm like I can't just whatever you want to do. Um do you have a favorite band? favorite band. I'm just trying I'm honestly just trying to like make conversation because I'm sorry. I'm a 70s guy. I like like Leonard Skinner. Cool. Cool. Do you have you heard of the band called Can? I actually um I worked for a production agency that was uh based in Lambertville and they did the Sland Music Festival, which I'm sure you're Can he did it one year and I like helped them like set up [ __ ] Crazy dudes. Crazy dudes. Yeah. I'm just trying I'm just trying to make favorite band. Yeah. I really like um Do you like Branson? Do you like uh Tim Armstrong? I'm not a guy. I'm old school kind of guy. I'm young. But Beatles. No, of course I have Beatles. Favorite album? Don't say Abby Road. Don't say I don't even know. Honestly, I'm not like a huge Beatles fan, but I just know the Beatles. I'm trying to make this like uh fun for you and me. No. Yeah, I understand. Sorry. I mean all the time. I recognize you're doing your job. It's just No, like I said, I'm not trying to be I'm not trying to be I don't know if I was respectful anyway. I'm not going to be most respectful. No, it's scary. I just understand I 100% scary for me. 100%. Okay. Like this is something I've never I've never even gotten like a [ __ ] like traffic violation. Like I said, so once this is over with, you're not going to be logged in jail. Just pick your case. I'm sorry. No, it's okay. Oh, sorry. Yeah. No, I I think it's like No, I got you. I got you. So, you're not going to be lodged in jail. So, you're going to have once this is going to be at most hour and a half, maybe. And then you're going to call someone. They're going to pick you up and then you're free. You just get it's in the state of New Jersey. It's just tickets. Great. But it's not just tickets, is it? It's Yes, it's tickets. So, you're you're going to have a court date. Sorry. Yeah, I know. Um, so I slid on ice or whatever. All I knew, all I knew is like I was up in the air. Yeah. And my airbags were deployed and I was like, "What the fuck?" Yeah. So then people pulled over. I couldn't even get out obviously like my car. Yeah. We got a call. That's we got a call for it. So yeah. No, that's um that's a commuter I drive every day. Every day of my life. Like well not every day like 3 days out of the week I whatever. How you doing? Hello officer. How are you? Good. Uh 10:22. Yep. I did all this good stuff. I was going to fill out the rest of it. I did it for me. Okay. I hope when she got to the question that you asked what was the response at first a little hesitant then said yes asked her I explained everything to her but you all know right you got to ask you got to ask like if you're kind of like regimented certain right now what they call 20 minute observation period. So we just have to make sure I don't know. Have you ever gone through this before? No. No. That's probably why I'm so awkward asking your I know this is awkward. It's usually like what's your favorite band? Like what do you like to listen to? It is weird. I'm sorry that y'all have to go through it too. We have to do it all the time. Sorry. I can give you like my social this this is like a new machine and I have a scanner. Yeah, that's the car along with my phone and my cigarettes and everything I need to like feel okay right now. You said you start at 22. Yeah. Where's the car? Do you do you know is that the car? Did they extract like the license and stuff from the car or is that's where they're Yeah, they're going to grab everything. your phone, all your personal stuff back here. Then once your phone's back here, you make a call, have someone pick you up. not asking now, but if I need to use the restroom, do I get to do that or Yeah, sure. You don't have a small Yeah. Court records indicate that on April 9th, 2024, Carolyn pleaded guilty to operating under the influence and the citation for reckless driving was downgraded to careless driving as a result of her guilty Please. Carolyn had to spend 12 hours at an intoxicated driver resource center, use an ignition interlock device for 5 months, and pay a total of $640 in fines. The other citation was dismissed as part of a plea agreement. Heat. Heat.