did you do anything to celebrate today
man ah no sir no
listen man
um it's rather it's better to be honest
i'm not professional
i took a lot of um
benadryl listen in our profession you
know it's best to be honest right no no
no no i know okay
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health watches by six
it's all good
hey officer oscar why don't we come back
out here real quick
let's come back hand
it's all good hey man
so can you just put your hands on the
roof for me
i'm going to remove your gun okay
you got any other weapons uh no
you're prone to seizures okay i'll turn
my lights off real quick for you all
right
i'm gonna put this in my car for the
duration of this encounter okay
watch them
oh my god
what's going on man
you got my seizure all right act up
okay do you need an ems
uh no
here let's just lean against
my car real quick all right
all right right here it may get a little
hot
42 to 14.
are you making too far with the pocket
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10 26.
he said that his rifles in the in the
back um it was in the center console
when i talked to him it was in a cup
holder
what time did you get off work today man
what time did you get off
6 work
6 30.
what have you been doing
uh
uh you got your foot for suit
what time
four am
you work night shifts
yeah
uh 8 30 at night
are you heading to work
or where are you going
yeah
the city lift off the hot water
it's all good i'm right here if you need
a ear you need a lean hey if you work
nights where are you going right now
i work um
i'll make sure you don't fall
i'll get it i'll make sure you don't
fall all right
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here you wanna sit down
you wanna sit down
here you can sit down in the grass
so
he's already disarmed sir
you're just
very very
like top pop heavy and you almost fell
so i wanted to sit you down in the grass
okay
so sit them in the back of the car
you want to sit in the back of my car
where there's ac
you're not in trouble listen do you need
ems or no
uh no you're acting like this way i'd
rather them come and make sure you're
okay let's sit in the back where there's
ac all right you're not in trouble
no i know i'm just trying to
i'm good all right come on
ready 42 uses
all right
can you have ems in route you can't even
stand properly keeps falling
dude i see it this guy was then
from lowe's in mount dora all the way
around a couple of blocks to the center
i street give him a call back in a
minute i'm speaking because he's playing
again more so yeah center street and
firewood yes sir all over the road
stopping in the middle of the street off
the road
running stop signs
a lot of stuff going on okay with this
guy and i tried to call the pumpkin pd
of course they say they closed so we
just call 9-1-1 i guess when you got yes
sir i was sure other people would
probably call it okay oh yeah we got we
got a call yeah i don't
he could be having a medical condition
but
he was asleep we passed by his car he
was asleep he was asleep what did you
pass by his car right over here and
firewood okay we turned the corner he
was coming this way we turned the
chronicle we kind of lost it
but i have everything
on video you do would you be able to
email that to one of our officers the
guy just gave him a card here perfect
that email is not at the e-wrap at
cid.eustis.us
would you guys also like to write a
statement of what you saw
yes sir i agree
you know
so
okay
i ain't not saying the guy needs to be
arrested but
it needs to be what's up
20
what does that mean
i was telling my buddies just hold up no
you're telling me hold
if you need a good attorney i work with
a good attorney
we do we represent police officers yeah
well he's also working you know you
can't be doing that either yeah
so man i
definitely want you gotta lose his job
no we don't even hate to see that too
um
would you be able to provide your id so
we can answer some calls
it's up to you man it really is you know
how the deal works
yeah then i can one more represent him
and we represent also pop into berries
and
just over three and a half years well
the captain
he just retired he did yes sir when i
was a lieutenant man this guy took a
class up in tallahassee together for
nine months senior leadership class
that's back in 2012 though no he's a
great dude man he just retired though he
was our intern chief a little bit too
this is a
law firm that i work with here
are you one of the registered owners of
the vehicle
yeah what's your name
drone jerome i can get it from there
23 65 28 for a complaint vehicle
all right what's your name man uh
officer mcgrogo
said his name was oscar
okay do you have a business card sir uh
yes i'm corporal steele by the way man
oh
is this your id no uh yes sir oh that's
not gonna do
okay
all right i'm going to hand these back
to you because i don't know oh that's
your id
that's your card to get attached
infiltration
hmm
crap
what did you see man
um he came and he keeps stumbling can
you smell anything yeah energy what do
you smell
okay okay i'm just making sure um what
kind of beer can he said it was in his
center castle he first got there
hey man just sit down
sit down sir we're just having ems come
to check you out
um
he moved the beer it came because when i
looked at it
he moved it put it in between the seat
so i looked in there i saw it i grabbed
it and it's 7.5 7.5 alcohol
oh some kind of hill
oh july
india
no we're not going to do the number all
right
he's saying um he's prone to seizures
but he will not
oh yes you say he doesn't want ems but i
called him anyway
there's a beer can there
what's your name
thank you sir have a good day
so
um he came and he keeps stumbling do you
smell anything yeah and there's a little
bit of snow
okay okay i'm just making sure um
what type of beer came he said it was in
a center call something he first got
there it was hey man just sit down hey
sit down sir we're just having ems come
to check you out
um
he moved the beer can because when i got
there i love it
he moved it put it in between the seat
so i looked in there i saw it i grabbed
it and it's a 7.5 percent alcohol
or some kind of ale i don't know it's
like a
ride like a homemade one or something i
don't know
it's not a driver's seat right now
huh
sir
did you do anything to celebrate today
man ah no sir no
listen man
um it's rather it's better to be honest
than you i took a lot of um
benadryl listen and our profession you
know it's best to be honest right no no
no no i know okay i know i i i i i
drove there is a open container of
alcohol on your vehicle
have you been drinking at all today uh
no that's uh that's
maybe three days old
okay i smell the alcohol coming from
your breath
are you willing to perform center field
sobriety exercises
okay
you are
ah no you don't want to do them
okay
ems is gonna come check you out and if
you have to go to the hospital then
we'll go from there okay
uh no uh again uh i took uh three
bennett rules you took three benadryls
what time
maybe
less than two hours though two hours ago
if you're going into work why would you
take benadryl man
you know benadryls make people sleepy
i was trying to go to sleep
i miss your shift
are you scheduled to work today yeah
you see where we're coming from man
you're not making any sense no no i do
not
okay man
all make mistakes i get it yeah
i know our job's stressful i get that
man
you sounded like you had stressful night
last night
okay
all right
how old are you man
how old are you i'm 25 25
sorry when i was 19.
you served oh okay so you've been here
for a while yes six years six years
are you still an officer yeah are you on
a special unit uh
you're on road patrol
yeah
are you a senior officer
well i mean since years
how many years do you get
i mean we every five years we get a
senior officer like after we work five
years is that how it works with you guys
uh
pretty much
mary and himself
what's up man so um
you guys can take my car back
my house
i'm pretty sure you're uh someone from
your job's gonna come yeah
we can't drive another agency's vehicle
where do you live
uh pretty much
i mean you said you lived off of that
water right yeah so
where are you over here
did you
go 10 8 on the radio
ah i did not you did not did you call
into work today
do they know where you are
no one knows that you're calling in to
work today
ems is here okay
all right we need you to be respectful
please all right oh no folks yeah
i'm not i'm not gonna do anything
they just stay there man sick just sit
you need to take your vest off
uh do you mind hitting me in the back of
your chest i no no no man
you want to take all your stuff off
it might be better for you to take your
vest off
i already disarmed you
oh yeah
hey oscar can i call you oscar yeah of
course yeah why don't you go ahead and
take your belt off
yeah we'll take everything and
everything will be in your car you have
your keys to your car too
they're in the cars go grab his keys
all right i got to do it
watch the radio
is this is this a button on top yeah
do you want to take your vest out too
i don't know i'll leave it on okay
there we go
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yeah all right what
he won't do it
yeah let's go ahead and take your vest
off man
are you gonna go to the hospital
i mean
i guess
do you want to go
not really but
what do you guys think
somebody come take a look over here
uh if you guys can take care of me right
now um i wouldn't mind well we can't
really like
it's because you just pretty much check
me out
there anybody in the car and come get
you uh my mom the sergeant's one
um
so i do have a problem syndrome
so uh
syndrome
um so i'm missing the left side of my
chest
no
do you have a knife in your pocket man
oh no i don't
oh you guys
check my phone
it's all good man
you just have your keys
yeah
you just got your keys
okay
that's merry
um
i had three tall boys
yeah
you know here it is
four
so
um
today
hey did you add his deal
all right
did we go to your house a couple months
ago
i
went ahead it
yes
i i think you came right i think so yeah
we have seen
maybe
like two or three months yeah
are you on medication
does your medication stay not to drink
and take it
mix it with alcohol does it say not to
mix it with alcohol
was the last time you took your medicine
um
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four years ago oh so you haven't taken
it recently
okay
no
all right sir since we're already this
far i'm going to read you miranda okay
you have the right to remain silent and
refuse to answer questions anything you
say may be used against you in a court
of law you have the right to consult an
attorney before speaking to the police
and to have an attorney present during
questioning now or in the future
if you cannot afford an attorney one
will be appointed for you before any
questioning if you wish you can decide
at any time to exercise detroit to not
answer any questions or make any
statements do you understand each of
these
yes okay boys i've explained to you
do you understand them okay having them
in mind do you wish to answer questions
yes
you said you had three tall boys
uh
yeah i i think two or three yeah what
time was that
i can't have to go three four
four five p.m like a few hours ago
is one of those in your car to the same
one you drink ah no sir that's an old
one that one's old it's actually older
yes
okay my fellow officer said it was in
your cup holder when you stopped you for
originally
yeah again
it was there but
it's so
what's your policy say about having open
containers of alcohol in your patrol
vehicle
you have to have six hours after
drinking before you can come to ships
and you said he didn't contact your
sergeant or anything and saying you
weren't going to make it to work today
and you're scheduled to work like you
this is your day on
how far did you make it from your house
before you decided to turn around
we had to win to say you were by lowe's
hey officer can i get those keys for you
for your car real quick
oh you got them yes sir oh no not their
keys so it's
it's all good
do you mind if i just take that
uh i think you guys are um
you might be on his belt
i
this one happened back in
february
what were you drinking what kind of beer
um
tall boys yeah
so let me ask you a question are these
two your personal keys
uh so um these two are my girls keys
these two are yours
these no
uh the these two are hers
okay your girlfriend or something yeah
just these two okay yeah yeah um
did you actually take benadryl or was
that a not true statement no no
so you took benadryl and alcohol
two depressants yes
gotcha
i'm going to ask you again are you
willing to perform center field sobriety
exercises man
if this is going to help
me in jail now
well
i'm just that alone doesn't put you in a
jail you should know that
i'm just trying to go to work so you're
just trying to go home
what
are you trying to go to work right now
yes sir your condition you're definitely
not going to go to work right now
you are set up
i don't have to drive home
um
i just want to go did you sign a refusal
already not yet
now you were doing you can you can do
your thing
he said he took a lot of benadryl a few
hours ago and he drank three tall boys
so he
mixed those two
and he's supposed to go to work at six
today and he said he never called a
sergeant right but the thing is is he
was traveling south on 441 and he
started going and decided he was not up
to it and came back okay
okay that makes a little more sense he
said he never called a sergeant he never
even went to any on the radio he said i
don't know that's true we can talk to a
sergeant whenever they get here i don't
think so but he's scheduled to work
today he said
he decided to turn around he should be
coming out here so
okay all right our captain
so they're gonna have to take all this
stuff right yeah it's gone and i'll stay
here with the vehicle depending on the
outcome i got his signal zeros and my
car let's go ahead and do it
no this
i made sure
oh oh no i didn't
open the car
it's in the driver's seat
hey can you stand up for me mommy yeah
all right just come up towards me turn
around
these are all your personal features
your hands up these two
yeah so this is the front doors
okay and this is the jeep your personal
jeep all right yes sir okay
yeah once again um so you already
explained everything to them sir i
already know what 10 15 means
um
he says refusing center field sobriety
exercises he's going to refuse to go to
the hospital
all right
um
i i am really just begging you i i i
don't want to go to jail well hey we're
going to thank you and we're going to
figure it out okay go ahead don't get it
right no no no no no no
let's walk back this way yeah
42 uses drivers detained right now
just take a seat for me yeah
i'm not sure they were very loose man
i really did
i got you man i made sure i promise
i know you won't
i know
but this is our policy okay
it hurts a lot
hey do you want me to um wait for it to
get here
you want me to wait for him to hear that
too before i yeah
because it's
hot
it's hot very hot you got your ac run
away yeah i gotta pull the glass and i
roll this window down
cause i know how the air gets back there
i appreciate you taking this man yeah
man no worries
yeah something like this might be a lot
for uh
yeah well because we got more experience
plus you got you got the dui stuff
he said i can't believe he makes
benadryl and alcohol
i can i don't
i can smell alcohol coming off of him
yeah that's a lot
he's sweating so hot
just officer man
um
i don't mind staying back here in the
fraction
i can't man i'm telling you it's our
policy
i understand your police officer but our
policy anyone in the back of our car has
got to be handcuffed okay
sorry to do it too
i know
we're figuring everything out right now
okay
we're figuring everything out right now
my captain just got here and your uh
sergeant's on his way okay
no one wants to go to jail
i understand that man
whatever happens today i believe we just
saved your life
take a seat
take a
seat other side over here on this side
so
all right
all right just don't touch your mouth
okay for the next 20 minutes
last thing yeah of course yeah just
don't touch your mouth
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i have to wait 20 minutes okay
after we do the breath test
three of those were all in the house
and they were all 24
24 what
24 on screen
on stand
what time did you start drinking
um
you know what david uh yes sir um
today is uh july 4th
do you know what time it is right now
uh not right now
um
it's almost five o'clock
what day time did you last sleep
um so i have a really bad ski problem
um
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three four
three
there
so three pm
i know it's gonna be um
you went to sleep at 3 p.m
yes
today
today
uh yes
what time do you wake up
around 5am
today
do you use marijuana
i'm sorry do you use marijuana
do you use marijuana
do i use marijuana no
do you use prescription drugs
no
i thought you prescribed something for
your seizures
uh
they're
not there's quite like something like
that like
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that's a prescription drug
uh yeah so
do you use any other kind of drugs
you know your doctor that prescribes it
um is
that i think it's that
does your medication say you should not
mix with alcohol
ah yes it does yes
does your medication say you should not
be driving while taking your medication
do you feel the effects of alcohol right
now
and you your opinion are you one of the
influence of alcohol or narcotics
uh no i don't feel like it but um
if you guys stop me though
i guess so
ah
so they think that
if they think it's what
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if
now you're not under the influx yeah
baby
so
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so
for the purpose of determining the
alcohol
not yet
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um
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all right
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i need you to just take a double breath
in and exhale into the suit for as long
as you can okay
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um
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okay
okay
oh
and then there's a chance there's a
chance i have to go
roof
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next to it
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all right one more sample okay
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myself
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it doesn't come
oh
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so um
um
if it's over
oh
all right
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hands
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so
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yes
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all right
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um
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i
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one
so you're over four times
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you get a cup
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understand
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so
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so
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good
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so
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um
so
so
so
mm-hmm
so
so
so
so
so
mm-hmm
so
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so
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so
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oh
so
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so
oh sir
yes sir
uh
um
your supervisor is gonna take care of
your stuff
i believe
so
so
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huh
so
so
mm-hmm
so
so i'm pretty much fired
i can't tell you that man
i can't tell you
i arrested a deputy once and he is now
working again so
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i said i arrested a deputy once and he's
working again right now
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so
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so
mm-hmm
uh
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so
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uh
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she graduated bible school a couple
years ago
over in the other side of the county oh
she's okay
oh yeah
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hey
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so
so
so
so
so
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mm-hmm
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uh
not really
yeah
um
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um
or something
what's up
during this period you will make
yourself available a telephone
subject to 30-minute recall to the city
between eight and five
in the afternoon monday through friday
you understand that
all right
can you sign this for me
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no problem i'll walk you out