on December 6th 2022 Crystal Lake police officers received multiple calls reporting a vehicle driving erratically in Crystal Lake Illinois officers Tracked Down the car in a shopping Center parking lot where they found an 18-year-old female driver they noticed an open container of alcohol inside the car and detected the smell of alcohol on the driver concerned about her condition they asked her to step out of the vehicle for evaluation on the window I'm sorry hello hi Miss I'm officer CER with Crystal Lake Police Department um we're just talking to you because we got a couple complaints um that you might have been swerving on the road or we need you to step out okay we're going to you're going to come and talk with us over here okay all right my dear here put your butt right against there this officer is going to ask you some questions okay do you have your ID on you put your butt right back there okay 2004 how old was that thank you that makes me 18 18 okay my partner kind of explained why we here he got complaints that I was so just to be clear you're the owner of this car okay what time do you do you know what time it is right now go without looking yes um I'm cheating about 6:30 okay it's all like it's right now it's uh 7:15 yeah what time do you think like 5:30 5:30 yes okay and then and then what did you do when you left his house I can hear okay but it's 7:15 how long were you inside the store for like give me an approximate 45 minutes you were in the store for 30 45 minutes yeah looking for presents looking for presents okay what's it called when you take things that are like extra vitamins for you like multivitamins kind of but like uh nothing if it's something like over the Comm talking they sell them at Target that's not that's not okay then that's the only thing that I've extra taken today our concern is we had two people call in saying that you were sing on the road and we just wanted to make sure you're okay to drive and and stumbling that's why that's why after they saw you get out of your car so here's the deal though okay I appreciate it all right I appreciate what you're saying to me however we have a little bit of a problem okay so now what we're going to do is I'm going to have you standby with these officers and I'm going to search your vehicle you don't have the warrant to do that actually I have probable cause cuz I observed alcohol you don't have warrant to do that I observe I have a right to not let you search my car okay so I have a right to not let you search my car unfortunately no I have a right to not let you search my car we're not we're not doing this I have a right to not let you search my ell we're not we're not doing this come on let's go get back here you know my right and you know I have a right to not let you search my car there's a little weed in the Center Council there's a there's a pipe I see this not a big they don't have a right to search my car they don't you don't have a right to search my Carill chill out okay I know because I don't want to have to put you in a hacs right now I know you don't have a right to search my car it's an exception to the law it's called a mobile conveyance you guys looked in my car before you have a right to search my car so you you don't have a right to search my car there's also Plain View yes you don't have a right to search my car I do no you don't no you don't ell we do we don't want to put you in hand I'm tell time dear I'm telling you for a fact you don't have you don't have a right to search my car so listen to me this is going to go one of two ways okay I would rather not put you in handcuffs I don't want to put you in handcuffs okay I don't want to but this is the deal if you're Cooperative we can figure this out through it I'm just saying you can't search my car without a warrant I know the law probably I know the law because I've looked it up and I know you can't search my car without a warrant so I'm not allowing you to I'm giving you one of two choices I know you can't search my car without a you guys know this Ellie these are your choices these are your choices you can go stand by that squad car with these two gentlemen okay that's your that's your first choice if you do not want to do that your second choice is I'm going to put you in handcuffs okay so which do you choose my car without a warrant which do you choose I'm going to give you I'm I'm not arguing with you I'm I'm going to give you one opportunity right now you can't search my car without a warrant oh it's all in body cam you can't search my car without a warrant no you can't turn around I turn around do not we're not going to do this we're not going to do this chill turn around stop please don't handcuff me I'll go with them to the car please don't handcuff me I'll go with them to the car I'll go with them to the car right now please don't handcuff me we already spoke about this we gave you the option don't hand up me I'll go to the car with them right now please I'll go to the car with them right now please we're not going to do this we're not going to do this I can't be hand off please I'm trying to walk to the I can't the ankles stop I can't the ankles stop it now I'm I'm sorry that happened I'll go to the car can't be handcuffed okay right now you're being placed under arrest okay for um well we're going to figure it out it's at least uh we'll go illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor right now okay do you have the key stop stop stop let's not do that I can't [ __ ] I can't be in handcuff just make sure that she I can't be in handcuff stop Ellie Ellie we're not doing this Ellie I can't not doing this we are not doing this take me out I can't be any I got her feet she's going Ellie stop take me out of the hand listen take me out of the [ __ ] handles Ellie stop take me out of the handcuff stop stop I got her take me out of the hand stop Ellie listen to me stop take me out of the Handcuff B Ellie take me out of the Handcuff Ellie stop take me out of the Handcuff B making wor for yourself you know how serious going to end up happening Ellie stop me Allie stop take me out of it stop it take that off Ellie listen to me walk step her over here listen to me listen to me take a deep breath listen to me can you please take okay you have to listen to me Ellie listen to me stop talking take a deep breath right now stop talking take a deep breath stop talking take a deep breath deep breath I'm listen to me you're going to be okay you're going to be okay but you can't fight with us I won't just pleas please take me out I cannot take you out of the handcuffs cuz of how out of control you're being right now I'll sit in this car if you chill out I'll sit in this car if you please take the handcuffs off me well I cannot have you un handcuffed it's my policy I can get fired for it I'll I will stay in this car the entire time well I'm going to need you to sit in the car anyway but I promise thank you I just okay you don't listen I can't with these hands Ellie Ellie listen Ellie take a deep breath for me take one right now no Ellie listen to me listen to me just listen to me please just take off the Handcuff me please take off the no do not Buckle me okay then I'm not going to buckle you please take off the handcuffs because I I I can't with the Handcuff please please chill you have to chill out please take off the handcuffs please okay right now I can't you know why I'll sit here if you take off the handcuffs if not I'll run out Ellie listen to me okay because of everything that just happened I need to ensure that you're safe he can buckle me up if you take off the handcuffs please he can't Buckle me not okay so listen this is the deal if you keep fighting like this my Sergeant's on his way here and he has this device called the rrap you have to listen to me if you can't calm yourself down the way we are now I am going to have to put you in that and I don't want to do that I don't want to do that because we're calm and we're talking right now now okay so we have to stop okay you have to stop take some deep breaths let's do some grounding can we do some grounding okay the faster I get you to the police department the faster I want to go to the police dep well I have to I have to take you why okay because you're under arrest and that's our policy under arrest for driving under the inflence I have to take you to the police department don't and if I take you to the police department that's when the Cuffs are going to come off quicker so the no okay all right well listen to me if I put your seat belt on we can get you there in 5 minutes and the handcuffs will come off my parents come pick me up I will call absolutely I will call your parents your two options are this one we're well leave the door open so you can try to catch your breath but what I'm telling you is if you're refusing to cooperate and be in handcuffs the second alternative is way worse than this can you please just can you sit in the back with me I can once they lock the doors I can sit in the front with you once they lock the doors it feels like I'm going to you Ellie Ellie Ellie Ellie stop Ellie if you do that one more time I'm going to put you in the wrap stop it then please take the handcuffs off me then you're going to get put in the wrap those are your options if you bang your head one more time I'm going to put you in the wrap please take the handcuffs off it's not going to happen I can't wear listen Ellie I can't wear handcuffs Ellie the longer we fight the longer you're going to be in handcuffs like that just please take me to the station and call my sister if you can chill out then good that we're on way can you get my phone so I know my sister's number your phone is in your pocket no it's in her pocket I don't have my [ __ ] phone okay phone and wallet I don't have a [ __ ] wallet just [Applause] phone please get out search yep please I don't know I don't know I don't know what you're reaching for stop reaching for things in your pocket ready please just get me out of hand okay I can't be handcuffs okay thank you okay so um Ellie what I'm going to do is a little bit more of a thorough search just like you can't touch me I give you not permission to touch me I don't give you permission to touch me I don't give you permission to touch me I don't give you permission to touch me just cuz you're you're just making it worse for yourself you're just making it worse for yourself Ellie just cuz you're with the law just that mean you can touch your without consent you're just making it worse for yourself touch me without consent you can't touch me without consent making it worse yourself you can't touch me without consent you can't you can't touch me without consent you she's trying to bite [Applause] you can't touch me without consent iie you're just making it worse for yourself you can't touch me without consent it hurts it hurts when she comes out I'm going to get her legs okay you guys hold on to her Dave I'm going to get you can't touch me without yourself call my sister right now we're going to call your sister don't bail me out right now you call her you can't touch we will call her I don't want men touching me without kind of when you're acting like this Ellie you don't have actually Dave why don't you get feet stop touching me W her feet right you guys are old men stop [ __ ] me careful watch your head watch your M watch your legs all right I got the head if you guys fing touching me itur stop let meie you have to stop let me go then you got to take do you know I'm better Hur the position I'm in right now let me stand [ __ ] up then stop trying to bite stop trying to bite I just I'm trying to avoid her neck so I'm just doing the sides she's got my hands so I'm keeping my Ellie what can we do to get you to calm down then let me stand up and not be hurt by these [ __ ] hand we got a lifter Ellie we go I know she keep dang it Ellie please stop Ellie we do not want to hurt you please stop you are hurting me you guys are abusing me I'm going to bring you all the [ __ ] Court I'm going to break I'm me every single [ __ ] one of you guys to court subject our hurts so bad so bad it hurts so bad it hurts so bad okay we're going to watch her watch her doing calm down doing fine take some deep breaths ow you [ __ ] where's my strap take some deep breaths Ellie he's going to double check your CU stop digging your fingernails into fight him he can't check your cuffs they hurt so bad F he should [ __ ] check them before going to double check he should have he should have checked them before putting them [ __ ] on me you should have checked them before putting them on ow my stomach okay stop are the straps tight up there they're way too tight my stomach is I think she's going to be hitting her head against a side I think ambulance transport shut the [ __ ] up no I can't go in ambulance I will not in my head I can't go in an ambulance if you call my sister right when you get I can't go in an ambulance my stomach just hurts let go my stomach got stop can you please unbuckle the Bel ofon it hurts it hurts it hurt stop yout have to take some deep breath it hurts what hurt my stomach and my wrists I've been telling you this you guys don't [ __ ] listen cuz you're [ __ ] you guys [ __ ] are insensitive [ __ ] please uncp the one of my on Ellie there's nothing okay okay so bad Ellie okay it hurts so bad let go of the one on my stomach it's sing hold on hold on wait hold on La if you don't stop I'm trying to help you trying to help I'm trying to help you it it hurts you have to stop you're pulling on it it hurts okay stop so we can fix it okay it hurts I'm going to slide these let's slide this down if we can it hurts so bad just get rid of the one of my stomach I know okay just give us a second he's got to get the key Ellie then get rid of it now stop stop hold on it's okay we hold her just undo that one too we're going to lean her back towards you Gill and then try to pull that down a little bit you got to loosen this loosen this up yeah we're going to lean her backwards okay let go of it Ellie I'm going to loosen it so can you pull that down CER B how's that can you get any stomach can you get it anymore not too hard okay I got to lift her up put her in wait one two three dude I'm going to [ __ ] bring you guys the cor du complete it hurts stop fighting I'm not there here you can clear there I got her it hurt stop fighting I'm not want it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts just leave the seat belts don't it hurts you want to close your door first it hurts [Music] it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts hurts my wrists and my stomach and I told you this I can't be in handcuffs and I told you that 45 minutes ago just bring me to the regular police station and call my sister good just please call my sister ow I here take take this so that we don't have any property there please put my feet in my car put my vape in my car no I got a phone ID and keys who has my vape back in in car who asked my vape who asked my vape who asked my vape who has my ba who is going to answer who has my B it's in your car they put it in there theying on lock up the upon searching the car officers found a half empty bottle of alcohol I'm really [Music] sorry what just fell out I there a bunch of [ __ ] okay get this flashlight out all right you searched cars you yep that's what about one car yeah there it is got it where is it under herat under her [Music] seat so we got her valuables and our evidence during the transport to Jail the driver began banging her head and screaming just please call my sister we call her as soon as we get there I just kind of music do you like throw music radio station I like ma Miller what radio station we listen to N I listen to ma Miller you don't have him how about Christmas music no I just want my please don't go my parents please only call my sister can I talk to her too can I talk to her too while just get to the police station as fast as you can so you can call my sister just speed past the light and put on your lights please ah [Music] a a a a a a please call my sister call her now so she can come get me fast please pleas please please please please please please please please please please please please please just call my sister please it hurts it hurts please call my sister it hurts and I need my sister please call her it hurts it hurts please call my sister it hurts please call her it hurts please call her it hurts please call my sister it hurts I can't I can't be in handcuffs please just let me go home it's going to take my sister 30 minutes to get here please let me go [Applause] please [Applause] please please let me go please please let me help help let me go home let me go let me go home please call my sister please let me go home let me go home let me call my sister let me go please let me go home [Applause] please please [Music] please please please let me I can't even breathe I'm thirsty please let me go home [Applause] please please let me go home [Music] please please let me go home please please please let me please let me go home please please let me go home please please please let me go home please please let [Applause] me I have to go home please I'm I'm 18 I need to go home please let me out please please let me out thank you please unbuckle this I need to get out you need to get out I can't be in handcuffs anymore all right we're going to get you out okay I'm going to put this on your head okay just give me one second okay I'm going to get you process and everything all right I can't I can't beup anymore I can't I can't breathe I'm thirsty get this out of my mouth I can't breathe there's hair in my mouth I can't breathe on you go calm down a little bit okay I'm going to get you out of this you don't I hear you no you don't get out of my mouth please can't go off of me get this out of my mouth get my hand off of me she's been kidnapped get my hand off me out of my mouth get this out of my mouth Miss Miss what's your name Ellie get this out of my mouth okay Ellie you got to tell me what's going on today what happened get this out of my mouth right now I can't [ __ ] bre you got get the ha I can't something else in my m I can't talk my mouth get it out and talk get this [ __ ] out of my mouth thank you can you please get the hair out of my mouth just lean your head back lean your head back can you please get the hair out of my mouth ready 1 2 3 over here short little step okay short little step 18 got earrings iny girl I'm not an inmate hey Ellie my my name is Jen I don't know if you remember me sweetheart okay okay well I don't know sometimes when we you know so I just I want to talk with you a little bit about um you're going to get some citations today okay okay so so I don't know that's dependent on the judge well I can't wait right okay so this is so this is the deal right now I'm going to issue you a couple citations I'm going to explain to you kind of what my processes okay all right so your first citation um is for uh failure to Signal when turning okay or when changing lanes so so un un fortunately that's that's against the law so I wrote you a ticket for that okay you guys watch me do that um no but I have I have two people that called that are able to identify you okay so they're the people that called that gave us substantial statements for me to have enough probable cause to write that statement okay or to write this ticket so this is going to be your first uh ticket your second ticket um is going to be so you were arrested for driving Under the Influence so you also received a uh driving Under the Influence citation that's all that's all for court okay so I'm going to read you this really long document if you have questions after I read this to you um we can talk about it and then I'll explain the whole process okay okay subsequent to an arrest for driving while under the influence of alcohol other drugs or intoxicating compounds or any combination thereof DUI or section 11 .1a and 61061 B of the Illinois vehicle code okay so do you have do you understand what I just read to you okay officers tried to calm her down by explaining that she would be spending the night in jail but she continued her TI raade what's your question what's your question no in the morning in the morning why not tonight they told me tonight no you had to see the Jud what if I my what's that if my parents bail me out tonight and they bring me in the no you don't have a bail until the judge sets it you'll be fine you'll be fine no I won't you'll be [Music] fine it's just F right now see how ites [Music] [Applause] Ellie come over here listen Ellie I'm going to book you in in a little while okay I'm going to give you three free phone calls but listen you're going to be down here just for tonight you're going to listen Ellie can't be here tonight Ellie listen to me it's just for tonight you listen Ellie I know but is there anyone you can call my parents okay but listen come come by the door so that I don't have to listen unfortunately you're going to have to spend the night no Ellie listen for a second let me talk I know Ellie I I know but listen Ellie you're going to you're not going to go anywhere you're just going to be here I'm going to be here all night long I can't stay here I can't I understand but you have no choice let me call my I'm going to let you in the morning they'll bury you out no don't Ellie the judge has to issue the bond and he's not here not till the morning please call the drugs and it doesn't work like that it doesn't work like that I can't stay here Ellie you got no choice to the [ __ ] I need to go home you're not going to do that okay so I need to go home you're not going to get anywhere like that [ __ ] you okay I need to go home in the morning no right now no in the morning I need to go well Ellie when you calm down let me know and I'll get you booked in the process and I'll get you on the phone but you have to show me that you're going to calm down and you're going to behave I need to you will in the morning no I need you right now so Ellie I need calm down Ellie calm down when you calm down let me know okay I'm here all night show me that you're going to calm down stay calm and I'll get you out okay in a few I'm waiting for him to write up his complaint and then I'll get you out okay but you have to show me that you're going to be calm and you're going to behave you let me call them in minutes no not that fast I got to wait for the complaints I got to get you out once he's done with the complaints okay so just relax and try to calm down for me thank you part of the process is I'm going to ask you to submit to a breathalyzer so I can get your blood alcohol concentration level are you willing to provide me a breath sample you are okay okay if if you are willing to provide me a breast sample and these deputies pull you out of your cell after can when they're ready you can make your three phone calls but you have are you going to remain calm because this is not we're not GNA we're not playing games I don't know CU none of us use it so all right new one all right I promise I'll clean out my [Music] trash okay when this tells me I'll put this in and again big deep breath in first and then blow as hard as you can you want to keep that meter all the way over here okay make sure you're not sucking in at all she agreed to take a breathalyzer test and registered a blood alcohol concentration BAC of 0.091 well above the legal limit of 0.08 is it you got this girl we got it okay big deep breath in blow blow harder harder harder harder harder harder harder harder harder harder harder harder yes there it is good job girl you need her anymore so I don't need her you just didn't finish this up I'm to take her then you're good to take her as long as so here's the deal she was charged with following too closely improper use of turn signals improper traffic lane usage operating an uninsured vehicle and transporting alcohol as a driver here's what I'm going to tell you so you have to set off your phone to be a to make pH [Music] okay ask and then