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[Music] That 28 is Charlie Mike India 3048. I'm sorry. Around 1:47 a.m. on February 5th, 2023. Officer Zachary Davis with the Athens Clark County Police observed a 2016 Mercedes-Benz swerving across the fog line on Smill Avenue just before Riverbend Road. He activated his emergency lights to initiate a traffic stop and the driver pulled over near the entrance to the UG softball stadium. He made contact with the driver and her passenger and the driver informed him that she did not have her driver's license with her. She was later identified as 20-year-old Rachel Ferguson and her passenger was later identified Elizabeth Coffin. Good evening. I'm officer Davis Athens Park Police Department. Okay. So, my real my ID is normally supposed to be in my here. You're good. Okay. So, my house is right up here to the left. Do you want to follow me there? No, I don't need your ID. Do you have any sort of ID on you? I can just do a name and date of birth. I promise you. No, you're fine. I trust that you got a license. You want my hands? No, you're fine. Okay. I'm just trying to make sure. You're fine. Go ahead. It's always nice to be in here. Gotcha. What's your name? Rachel. R A C H E L. Yes, sir. Ferguson. F E R. Tell me, are you ready? Officer Davis told Rachel that he observed multiple traffic violations. As he was speaking with her, he detected the odor of alcohol. Rachel told the officer that she was picking up her friend from downtown Athens. So, Officer Davis asked Rachel to exit the vehicle. Since he still smelled alcohol on Rachel's person, he asked her to perform field sobriety exercises. F GU S O N. Mhm. What's your birthday, ma'am? 0115 2003. All right. Um, do you have any idea why I pulled you over? Probably cuz my phone. I'm watching my maps. No, you've been all over the road. You went up on the curb back before River Bend. You've gone over the double yellow twice since I've been behind you. Um, yes, sir. Where are you coming from? Um, I was picking her up actually from downtown. Okay. But you weren't downtown? No, sir. Okay. Well, hey, how about this? I can kind of smell alcohol coming from the vehicle. Um, do you mind stepping out of the vehicle real quick? just because if she's coming from downtown, I'm assuming downtown drinking. That's what everyone's doing downtown on a Saturday night. Um, we're going to step around over there out of the road. Officer Davis started with the horizontal gaze nestagmas HGN test and he observed the lack of smooth pursuit distinct and sustained nestagmas at maximum deviation and the onset of neistagmas prior to 45°. He did not observe vertical nestagmas. The second exercise was the walk and turn test. During the walk and turn test, Rachel did not touch heel to toe on each step and took an incorrect number of steps. The third exercise was the one leg stand test, but Rachel did not follow instructions at all and took a series of elongated steps instead of raising her f. So, you haven't had anything to drink? No, sir. Not at all. No, sir. I came from my house. Okay. You don't have anything to drink at your house? No, sir. Nothing at all at your house? No, sir. I came from First Scythe County. Uh, what am I smelling coming from you that smells like alcohol? Then yeah, I picked her up from downtown for um she was downtown from home. I came from home. I was with my mom downtown. Not downtown from Will Hunter on South Millage the softball complex. So run me through that again. I'm sorry I had someone talking in my ear. Okay. So I came from Scythe. Mhm. I was with my mom. My mom was in a fight with my aunt. Mhm. I came from Scythe. Um Lizzy, that's that's who's in the passenger seat. Okay. She came from down downtown Athens. Um I picked her up, taking her home. Retreat right there. Right there. Okay. But you haven't had anything to drink? No, sir. All right. You mind doing a few tests then just so I can double check and make sure? Of course. All right. Cool. You have Let me turn off my lights real quick so they're not messing with my eyes or yours. [Music] If you just want to turn and face this way. Yeah, I got my blue lights off. Um, do you have any issues with your eyes? Wear glasses, contacts, anything like that? I do wear glasses and contacts. I don't have them in right now. Fine right now. I mean, you were driving. I can't see. I can see SSB, but I can see my finger. I don't have my contacts in, but I can see your finger. Yeah. Okay, perfect. All right, so I'm going have you do is just keep your head still and follow my fingertip with just your eyes. All right, adjust your eyes, please. closed. I don't need them. This last one we're going to go up. All right. Um, like I said, I came from for South County. Gotcha. And you haven't had anything to drink? No, sir. Any reason your eyes be indicating to me that you have? My passenger has, but no, I came I came a hour and a half away. I'm just going home to the retreat literally right up here to the left. Do you think it'd be a good idea to have someone come and pick you up and take you the rest of the way? No, but she was in need. I had to pick her up. I came from an hour half away from my mom. I got you. But you shouldn't be driving, sir. Yes, ma'am. All right, two more tests if you don't mind. Yeah, of course. You good to walk in those shoes? Yeah. Okay. All right. What I'm going have you do, perfect start like that. Take your right foot and put it toe to heel in front of your left foot. Keep your hands down by your side. Stay in this position until I tell you to start. All right. What you're going to do, you're in this starting position. You're going to take a series of nine heel totoe steps. If you wouldn't mind getting back in the starting position, please. Yeah, of course. Thank you. Um, you're going to take a series of nine heel totoe steps along a straight imaginary line in front of you, counting each step out loud. It's going to look like one, two, three, all the way to your ninth step. When you reach your ninth step, you're going to take a series of small steps around that lead foot. And you're going to come back on that same straight imaginary line with nine heel totoe steps, counting each step out loud. One, two, three. Along your way. All right. Do you understand the instructions? Two, three. that I can do. Wow. All right. I am. Thank you. I take it as chair counts. 254 central. Excuse me. I'm sorry. I said I take it as chair counts. cheer counts. I don't know what that means. Okay, come out with a Rachel's Ferguson 115 of 03. Um, last test. You still good to stand in those shoes? Yes, sir. Perfect. You can pick a foot. Any foot. Doesn't matter to me. I just ask that you tell me which one you're going to do before you start. Don't start real quick. Keep your feet together, hands down by your side until I tell you to start. When I tell you to start, pick a foot. Either one. Raise it 6 to 8 in off the ground. Toe pointed up, looking down at your toe. And you're going to count out loud. 1,00 1,002 1,003 1,004 All the way until I tell you to stop. Any questions? Yes, sir. All right. Go ahead and start when you feel ready. 1,00 1,002 1,003 1,004 100, 105 100, 106 1007 1008 2009, 2010. Go ahead. 2011 2012 2013 2014 2018 All right, that's good enough. Based on her erratic driving, the odor of alcohol, and her inability to adequately perform the field sobriety exercises, Rachel was placed under arrest for DUI. After Rachel was placed under arrest, officer Davis read her the George implied consent notice and she agreed to submit breath samples. That's good enough. All right, Miss Ferguson, do me a favor. Turn around. Put your hands behind your back. Yes, sir. At this point, you're being placed under arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol. I got you. I got you. Hey 84, would you mind doing a search real quick for me? Hey, we're going to step over here to this vehicle. I'm going to have this female officer come over and search you. Anything on you that we need to know about? No, sir. All right, we're going to search the vehicle. Is there any I'm going to find any level of intoxicants in there? Any alcohol, any drugs, anything? Okay. All right. [Applause] What's your name? Rachel Ferguson. Rachel. Okay. I got to search you. Do you have a regular bra on? Sports bra. No bra. Regular bra. Regular. Okay. I'm going to have you walk back here. Okay. Of course. Send up here at this. I got to search the back first. Just relax. Okay. Make sure you don't have anything stuck in your pants. People be surprised what people keep. People face me. Can I have a conversation real quick? Yeah. Just face me so I can hear searching real quick. Yeah, of course. Conversation with me or your friend? My friend. Okay. Who you call? So, I'll have your friend come over here. Take a seat. I need I need her I need to talk to her real quick. Okay. Here. She can talk to you while you're staying in the car. Okay, that's fine. Hey, 54. Unlock your car. Come here. Oh, thank you. That's fine. That's fine. 54. 54. Lizzy, we lock your car. Lizzy, what? She lives at the retreat, so worst case, I can just take her. Um, if you want to have a conversation. Am I allowed to do you lock the door? Yeah, you'll have to give courtesy ride. That's fine. It's just right there. I asked her. I said, "Where were y'all coming from?" She was like, "She was at home. I was downtown." She came to pick me up. Lizzy said that. Yeah. And I said, "Do you have ID on me on you?" She handed me her ID. I said, "Where's your fate?" She's like, "Oh, I was downtown, but I wasn't drinking." I was like, "Well, okay." 21. I can smell it coming from her purse. I saw you. I like I like really donuts. Yeah, the softball field. Yeah, I told them that and they were like, "Where are you?" Um, there's no address on that now. Did you you still have her ID? No, I got back to her. She's good. Okay. Is there anything in the car that you need? No. You get your purse? [Music] For suspects under age 21. All right, Miss Ferguson, I'm going to have to read you something. I'm going to need an answer from you. The state of Georgia has conditioned your privilege to drive upon the highways of this state upon your submission to state administered chemical tests of your blood, breath, urine, or other bodily substances for the purposes of determining if you are under the influence of alcohol or drugs. If you refuse this testing, your Georgia driver's license or privilege to drive on the highways of this state will be suspended for a minimum period of 1 year. Your refusal to submit to blood or urine testing may be offered into evidence against you at trial. If you submit to testing and the results indicate an alcohol concentration of 0.02 g or more, your Georgia driver's license or privilege to drive on the highways of this state may be suspended for a minimum period of 1 year. After first submitting to the requested state test, you are entitled to additional chemical tests of your blood, breath, urine, or other bodily substances at your own expense and from qualified personnel of your own choosing. Will you submit to the state administered chemical test of your breath? Yes, sir. Yes. Yes, sir. Okay. What out of the vehicle do you want to bring with you? Phone, wallet, purse. She's got it all. She's She's taking it all with her. Do you not You don't want to take your phone because when we get to the jail, if you need to get phone numbers out of your phone, if I can take my phone, that's fine. But if you're not allow it, then that's No, we can take your phone. That's the purpose. You don't want to bring your purse or anything like that? My phone. That's fine. Thank you. Just your phone. Okay. Hey, let me talk to you for a second. So, for whatever reason, she has asked this girl to remove her purse and take it with her. I told her to put it back in the car. Don't know what's in it. I didn't search it. Search it. But that's what I'm saying. Yeah. I have her phone right here. Do I Perfect. She's gonna take that She's gonna take that with her. Okay. Um would you mind doing a secondary search of the vehicle just to make sure there's no intoxicants in there? I've got a next in line on the way. Need to see if someone can run intox. We're going from there. Okay. Are you ready? 254 to central. Can you see if there's any Intox operators on east or downtown? Thank you. Perfect. I'm going to take her home. Appreciate it. Is one of them waiting with the car? Lizzie, did you give him my phone? I've got your phone, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Worst case, I can come back. The retreat's just two minutes down the road. So, if you Hey, Deon. Can you sit with the car until I get back over? Yeah. And then when I come back, clear. I'll meet him downtown. Starting mileage 38969. One female. 2014. Dispatch has been updated. [Music] Dispatch has been updated. Miss Ferguson, what is your local address? Sorry, that's my old one. Yep, I got it. Thank you. Is that an apartment complex? Yes, sir. Okay. Which apartment complex is that? Gotcha. Which What complex is that? It's the retreat. Yes, sir. It's the retreat. [Music] Thank you so Okay. Were there going to be some things from the east side of town? They cannot identify him. [Music] One step up. Walk around here in front of my vehicle real quick. Just stand right here for me. I got to roll up your window. No, walk over here. I'm just going to grab your jacket while we're going down the stairs. I don't want you falling. Let's go right now. [Music] You have a seat right there in that chair. Thank you. You got her for a second. Run to my car. Yeah. All right. Appreciate you. 254 central. I'm out of downtown substation. I'll get your mileage in a second. Hello, Miss Ferguson. Is it? Yes, sir. I'm Sergeant Dval. Yes, sir. Okay. So, I'm just setting up this machine right here. So, this is the Intox machine. Uh, once it's set up with all the information I need and everything such as case number, your information, stuff like that, it's going to go through a series of processes and everything. And we're going to have two test, two blows, essentially just like blowing up a balloon. There's a little tip here, plastic. I'll show you how to you blow into it. I need at least about a liter of air. Uh, there's a little bar there on the screen that lets me know if you gave me enough. And also don't suck, blow around, do anything like that cuz it shows. That's fine. All needs a liter. I can tell you right now on my bad day, I do close to five. Sometimes I can catch my breath with the medicine. That's okay. So, uh, also right here, here's a little mini copy of my certification from the state of Georgia GBI to run this machine. Okay. I was required to show you so you can see it. [Applause] [Music] view [Applause] number. There we go. Your date of birth is 115 of 03, correct? And you identify as female? Yes, sir. Okay. Probably off the radio. 10 four. I'll be off radio. Miss Ferguson, if you don't mind standing up. Ma'am, do you have a telephone or anything on you? No, sir. Where's her cell phone at and everything? In my car. Okay. Just make sure we don't have any electronic devices in here. Okay. All right. If you don't mind coming over here, you can sit right there for me. As you see, this is a fresh impact. Yes, sir. Little mouthpiece. [Applause] All right. So, it takes a few minutes uh between the tests. We'll have one that's going to be coming up here in a second. So, when you're ready, you'll just put your lips around this little nub right here and blow into that. Like I said, right here on the screen, I'll have everything saying flow rate and etc., etc. We'll do the first test. It goes through its processes, checks itself, double checks itself, make sure everything's going good. Then we'll do one more and then we'll print out the results and I'll give you a copy of your results for yourself. All right. So, you don't mind? Take a deep deep breath for me. Blow in there for me. Keep blowing. Keep blowing. Oh, you stopped just short. Keep going. Keep going. There we go. That's all I need. Thank you. See, that wasn't too bad. That's got anxiety like no other. Oh, I mean, you're in handcuffs town or anything. It's one of those things that happens. Seem like it's not want to take that out. Let's try to do that one more time. Deep breath for me. Keep blowing. Keep blowing. Keep blowing. Keep blowing. Keep blowing. Keep blowing. Keep blowing. There we go. There we go. Do you have any questions or anything like that? Yes, sir. We're going through this. Okay. So, like I said, once it goes through here, it's clearing itself out. It's going to test itself. Once it does that, we'll get back on this little bee here. As you see, it goes along, do our second test, and then we'll get copies of everything. I'll explain all the results to you. Okay. [Music] [Music] State H. State. What all are charges? Dismissal. This Yeah. Only goes up to state if uh they've been previous DUI or it's fasttrack, something like that. And they'll notify you then. Just hurry up and wait. Usual government. Is that your ankle popping? It is. Ooh. It sounds bad, but it really isn't. That's That's bad. It really isn't. I was a cheerleader all my life. It really isn't. Oh, so that's why. Okay, that makes Were you a flyer? I was. I was I had a few friends that were cheerleaders. Really? Yeah. Where at? Uh here at UG actually and of course back in high school and then back in Georgia Southern. Okay. So So I bartended at Moonshine if you know where that's at. That's where every Clayton, right? Yes. Have not I don't hang out in downtown anymore. Our owner of the bar actually just opened a bar up at Statesboro. What's your barer's name? JRod. Oh, killer. I know JRod. So, he's JRod's been around. He's as old as I am. Yeah, he's awesome. He just opened a bar up in Statesboro. It's called Fifth Quarter. All right. Deep breath for me. Blow out. Nope. Yeah. And blow into the Z. Keep blowing. Keep blowing. Keep blowing. There you go. Keep blowing again. Nope. Nope. He accepted that one. All right. Yep. Uh I saw him just the other day walking out about I haven't talked to him in gosh know how long. I got He's awesome. He's friends. So he's actually he's buying a place in Statesboro. So he'll be moving there and he'll come up here every once in a while cuz he owns part of the bar here. Mhm. 85 and Moonshine. But isn't there a fifth quarter in part of up or there's a fifth quarter up here as well? Is there fifth quarter just in Statesboro? Just Statesboro. But we are opening up a new bar here. But okay. Nobody's supposed to know about it, but we are. Yeah. I wonder why he's uh moving down to Statesboro. There's not much down there. Well, so he's one of the like co-owners of of the Statesboro bar. So like he's one of the main owners. He'll need to be on site. So that's supposed to be like his bar. Mhm. So he's been taking control of everything and like proud of him, but I will miss him a lot. I love him. But it'll be sad. Yeah. He'll still come up here. I wonder where it is cuz I know the school down there started buying up all the property where there was bars. Yes, sir. Uh because back in my day, it used to be uh pretty crazy down there. Where'd you go to college? George Southern. Okay. or anything. Graduating 0808. I'm old. Yep. I am old. You're not old. No. Yeah. Trust me, you are not old. Trust me. You were born the same year I graduated high school. So, okay. You are not old. My mom My mother had me at 19. You are not old. Oh, well, you are not old. That that definitely doesn't make you feel old when you say I'm your mom's age. You are not old. I promise you. All right. So, you'll get a copy of one of these. Yes, sir. Everything is freezing in here. Oh, well, it's cuz we wear all this armor. I know that and everything. So, we keep it nice and cold because we would sweat to death if otherwise. Well, all right. Yeah, if you're I'll tell you right now, my left knee's got enough scar tissue. When they first came out with those little machines, you want to see my right knee cuz Yeah. At the airport, they used to always set off the machine there. Really? Yep. Okay. I've had surgery on my right knee before. Okay. I mean, where is this little book? So, do you have a sister that cheers? No, I had cousins. I had several cousins that cheered. They should have been volleyball players. They're as tall as I am. Okay. Everything. Uh, couple girlfriends, exes, etc., etc. Buddies. I had a buddy. Except me. I have an ex that went to Statesboro. I thank God that I got away from that. Thank God. He was like a high school lover that I thought I was going to marry and I am definitely not. There you go. Puppy love. It was puppy love, but it's something else. He got a he got a buzz cut and everything and it is not cute. Oh, all right. So, we took two samples. State takes the lowest of the two. Your first sample was 173. Okay. I don't know anything about this, so you're going to have to explain it to me. Okay. So the limit for someone's 21 on up is 08. Okay. All right. And your second sample was.161. Okay. The one I'm circling up here. So you are double the limit. Okay. Right there. Okay. Okay. So [Applause] this will be your copy. I'll hand it over to Officer Davis here. He'll get a copy. from himself that's going to be attached to the report as well and so you'll be see all that. All right. Do you have any further questions besides that? I do not. Okay. And you had surgery on your right knee but not both ankles pop like that. They do. Oh. Oh, they do. Oh, now see when you get older you're going to be telling the weather going well up. That's I think it's going to be my back that tells older. Oh yeah. He took some tumbles if you're a flyer. So here's her copy Zach right there. So I'll just you say 016 or 161 point. So B R A C. I've already written for 21 doesn't matter. Well yeah you just per say what it is now it's easy enough. So there you go. So he's going to take you from here, Miss Ferguson. Yes, sir. Okay. He's already explained to you the charges. I'm a little bit. Okay. Well, he'll do that in a second. You ready to go? All right. Ferguson, if you don't mind standing up. It's been pleasant to meet you. You've been nice. Yes, sir. And come on this way. Appreciate you. No problem. And have a better night, Miss Bergson. Go back around here to my vehicle. [Music] Which one's yours? I'm sorry. Which what? Aren't we getting back in the car? We are. Yes, ma'am. The one all the way down on the left. Last one. I'm just going to hold you while you step over these curves. We're going to go around the other side. There's more room. Yeah, I'm going to reach across you and seat belt you in. I'm trying to lean back. I promise. You're fine. I try not to lean too far in. [Applause] So, I have a question. Yes, ma'am. Hypothetically, if one of my friends got a felony about Did he come here? No. So, um, give me two seconds to type this in. So, the only reason we came here is because that machine that you just blew into, um, the only one we have in the county that belongs to us is there. Um, So, we had to come here to get that test done. Um, where we're going next, we're actually in route to the, uh, county jail. Um, that's where everyone goes. Um, from that point forward, I don't have all the answers for how the process will work for you. The jail and the court system is handled through the sheriff's office. Yes, sir. Um, what are you doing, person? Um, your charges at this point are um driving under the influence of alcohol. Um, I did it for your age, which the, uh, legal limit for your age being under the age of 21 is 0.02 g per or it's not grams, but 0.02 02 BAC. Um, and I'm sure he explained to you that you were.16, which is actually eight times the legal limit that you're allotted. Um, and you're also being cited for failure to maintain lane. All of that stuff from this point forward will be handled in the courtroom. Um, you will go in, I'll explain the the process at the jail when we get there. Um, how long you have to sit there is handled through the sheriff's office. Like I said, that's their job and it's not something I ever deal with. 254 central wrap 600. Starting mileage 38973. [Music] Dispatch has been updated. Dispatch has been updated. [Music] You're on. You're on speaker. Hey. Um, I don't know if you want this or not, but there was a fake ID in her bag. No, that's not worried about it. Okay. Yeah. All righty, Dan. All right. I appreciate you. And then there there was also in the back seat um it was just the rapper, but it was for Crown Royal. Okay. I'm not but it was not like an actual bottle. Gotcha. All right. Well, I appreciate it. Do you need a supplement or anything? No. All right. All right. I appreciate you. Yep. Bye. Bye. I'm not going to be a minute. Yes, sir. What you got? One female. All right. Come over. You go to that comfort on the other one. 94 something gray shoes Clear. [Music] I'm just going to reach across you here and under your seat belt. Have you ever been arrested in Clark County before? I have not. Okay. Um, so we're going to go through this door. We're going to wait here. Depending on how busy they are. Um, depending on how busy they are. They have to have a female deputy come to search you. Um, they'll open this door. At that point, you'll just start listening to them. They'll have you step over here to this wall. Um, they will search you again. they will take the cuffs off and tell you how to put your hands on the wall and things like that. Um, and then from there, you'll just listen to them. Um, like I said, I'm not fully sure on the process for which, uh, she was transported to a substation where Sergeant Debball administered the breathalyzer test. During the administration of the breathalyzer, she told Sergeant Debo that she has worked as a bartender at Moonshine Bar and Grill. Her breath test results indicated ABA BAC of 0.161% which was more than double the legal limit of 0.08% for drivers over 21 from here how it goes with you bonding seeing a judge and things along those lines. Um but they will make sure that all of that is I don't either. So, Yes, ma'am. [Applause] Are you focusing? Yes, ma'am. [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Appreciate you. [Applause] Everything good with her paperwork? Thank you, Miss Ferguson. Have a better evening. Officer Davis then transported Rachel to the Clark County Jail for further processing. As she was being transported to the jail, another officer called Officer Davis and informed him that she had found a fake ID inside Rachel's vehicle. Rachel was issued the following summones: DUI, alcohol, under 21 YA 406391K and failure to maintain lane 40 - 6 - 48. Heat. Heat.