on May 2nd 2023 a concerned neighbor called the chambley police department after spotting a woman believed to be intoxicated sitting in a car on her driveway with a young child officers arrived at the scene the neighbor who recorded a video of the incident expressed concerned that the woman was a habitual Drinker and had seen her intoxicated before a concerned neighbor took the young child into their home to provide Comfort while police investigated hey where you at here okay I Bo next door oh okay all right thank you we all the ones that called yeah okay excellent I'm fine I got You' I'm not going to shine in your face I just want to make sure you're okay are you okay ma'am 39 I'm out what's her what's her history uh it's not the first time this has happened what's her history she is Tech she's the custodian of the boy she's her aunt her sister was an alcoholic and druggie so she took the boy on when he was a baby she's had years but I mean I think she's had some alcohol problems in the past okay all right that's what I thought but we're up here I N there ain't no need for that she's she's intoxicated pretty sure she's intoxicated she was passed out on the ground neighbors saw her passed out uh he's got the kid apparently there was a kid out or whatever kid in the car with him over here okay is anybody else here her no uh no just her officers first checked on the woman's well-being offering medical assistance which she refused the woman claimed she was simply playing a game with her son in the driveway is this her yes it is her son let me see I'm trying to locate her son I think she said he's over here she said she thinks something asking me oh he's I I mean I don't think but I know that he is okay with my friends are you okay ma'am yes 100% but she was Ling the it was report you was Landing in the driveway so we just want to make sure you're okay and your son is okay okay well I'm I am perfectly fine and does anyone else live here with you or just no it's me and my son okay so it's just you and your son yes okay how old is your son he's four years old four years old okay what's his name his name's Liam Clemens Liam okay was he was he in the car with you no they I didn't see him when I pull up she was sitting already sitting in the chair when I arrived okay does she need to be checked out by EMS she's said no I asked her multiple times but I don't want to call just to make sure um what about the child the child okay did you see the child child's over here you already look at okay yep can I show you this video cuz she was passed out in the car and he was he was scared and crying and she she was Blitz out of her mind he's been in there for a while so I heard the car honking the horn like an hour ago I thought it was nothing what's wrong he's soiled himself he's been there for a long time to come ins with me she's not doing it you want her to go inside but she she's not getting inside hey Catherine she's going to need to do a defect referral Catherine this is not the first time she's going to black out on need you to wake up did y all see her drive up Catherine you're at home you're in the car she was gone most weekend Liam he's scared so he's inside getting but we have no clothes for him and he's he's getting some food at least but yeah she's I got more videoing one but it's it's not great this is the first time it's happened her mother used to live nearby but now she lives very far away so there's no one to help her out and I can't I don't want to leave it with her leaving with her find out how she got here she gr look that aspect also need contact defs yeah well here I it's Miller's call so I mean way how she got here did she tell you how she got here no I'm talking to her still asking why she was laying on the ground she said yeah she wants him now so I'll ask him what do you mean now yeah so I can ask her how she got here she said they were playing a game and they were l in the driveway not officers observed damage to the car including flat tires that she couldn't explain what what happened to your tire huh what happened to your tire I'm sorry what happened to your tire I have no idea okay sorry so how did you if you don't mind me asking how did you get here home how did you get home home how did you return home if you're you're not home how long ago did you drive huh how long ago did you drive um I just I just drove from Lille Georgia okay and you just got here which was a 130 something miles away yeah okay and you just got here okay despite denying any alcohol or drug use she admitted to driving the car home right hold on hold on ma'am' ma'am hold on right now you're very intoxicated so give us a second oh yeah you you seem like you're intoxicated how much have you had to drink today none none okay have you been taking any pills or anything or any drugs not at all no no no so you don't remember how this damage got to your tire you don't remember doing that no I don't no I don't that I literally from that V at the uh right there at the whole food I got you and I came here and I don't know how that happened okay um so you have to look at the DUI aspect of it she obvious was passed out in the driver seat he's got a video did you see that no I didn't mon CU I came straight to here just to make sure she was so checked that out and she was sitting in the driver's seat regardless on that video with the son in the driver's seat while she's passed out and she she just admitted to driving here okay um so and obviously she's got that damage to her Tire okay and she's trying to say she's not intoxicated but if you I'mma look at the video yeah so see if she has someone starts to pick up her um son so we need to get a whole defax that's what we need to do okay um so let's let's figure out we'll get mon to do the the uh child aspect of it I have to worry about okay you know what you can see as far as DUI and stuff like that if you want to go that direction yes definitely if she I'm going to look at the video so if she had her son and I'm going to let's just do it that way and we check on the sun is over here okay well you know that How old uh four okay so so but she he's got a video of her before her pass out the driver's seat while he's sitting in the lap saying I'm just trying to wake my mom up oh yeah yeah so as she in the driver here okay like this so I mean based off observations alone don't put that in our face I'm not putting in your face ma'am I can't see you so that's why I have like hey relax well I'm asking him not to put that this this is not in your face yeah so is everything okay no it's not what's wrong what's wrong that's the question what's wrong what happened that's what I'm trying to figure out what happened you tell me all right okay so you don't know how much you had to drink tonight you don't remember having anything to drink tonight you're on my why are you number one turn the light off turn that light off we're not turning the light off be quiet excuse me you heard what I said we're not turning the light off be quiet excuse me you're on my property yep and we're here dealing with my property we're here dealing with an intoxicated female who has a child in the car as she's intoxicated in the driver's seat did so that's why we're here did you yeah we know know you saw that's what I know okay fine so so what no I can smell the alcohol coming off of you off who you I smell the alcoholic beverage coming from your person okay so what are you trying to find out well right now we're trying to figure out the best the the the best placement of your son and try to figure out make sure he's okay because right now his mother is not thinking clearly gay so you catch an attitude with us while we're trying to help and try to figure out what's going on is not help helpful at all number one I I am not trying to attitude with you so let's just calm down I don't have the light in your face I have enough enough light so that I can see you that's literally no that's literally in my face okay so that's not literally in your face you're wrong I can show you the difference you would you like to see the difference would you like to see the difference of a light in your face that's a light in your face that's not in your face wow thank thank you you're welcome thank you you understand hopefully you understand now so I'll just have another do observations since obviously sfst no there's not obviously anything no talking to you don't want something in my face I don't nobody's talking to you literally don't want in my face nobody's talking see thank you so we do we'll do the um like you said the observation and then and read her that's that's it you can smell it red glassy eyes everything she driving somewhere too she said I just got here what you Shing for you Shing I mean I mean and you got a blown out tire no telling where that came from so take or not damages but uh pictures of the damage to retire yeah what I'll do I'll I'll do that and I'll attach it to the report from Miller so so out as far as all good stuff why you don't know why okay y yeah so we can go ahead and put her in cuffs and then read Imp plet in hey Miller once you get done doing that we need once you get done doing that you need to put her in cuffs and then and read andly and S to her got okay yep what are you shaking your head for I'm just wondering what you're doing here on my property you don't understand at this point you don't understand why I'll okay well I don't know what to tell you if you don't understand at this point I think that speaks to to to where you are right now and your capacity that you don't understand while we're here right now yeah I'm I'm just wondering why you don't know why you're you have no idea yeah so can you let me finish can you listen to my question you have no idea I'll absolutely you have no idea why we're here at all you have no idea why we're here you could even tell me how your car got damaged huh you couldn't even tell me how your car got damaged so how do you even know what's going on which Dam damage you don't know your car is damaged hold on do you know your car is damaged yeah yes what what what's the damage tire so you know your tire is flat how' it get flat how did it get flat my my tire has been flat how did it get flat a question again how did it get flat that tire has been flat since last week I've been trying to Pump It Up um for almost a week you could ask my mother that you've been trying to pump up a tire for a week and you couldn't get pumped up got you you could ask my mother yeah defitely Cur orw or something uhhuh okay literally I literally just did it like this morning to pop it up I'm not I'm not lying with that yeah but you just got here huh you just got here not too long ago i i l literally pumped it up this morning with my mother okay pumping up the tire with my mother I'm I'm not lying I'm not lying okay okay okay next question again like I said do you know do you know why we're out you have no idea why we're out here I mean guess you think that I did something wrong wa oh you you guess you you guess you think you did something wrong mhm what do you think you did wrong you have no idea you tell me you have no idea I'm just I'm you said you you said I can ask you a question so I'm asking you you have no idea why what you think you did wrong you don't know why we're out here okay just wondering my officers I'm sure already explained you why we're here so that should give you an indication but I'm wondering if you know why we're out here y due to the evidence and the child's safety concerns the woman was arrested and placed in the back of the police vehicle can you go ahead and stand for ma' can you stand for me I'm going to arrest you for DUI go ahead and stand for we're not asking you stand up stand up ma'am go ahead and stand up for me get up who whoa stand up place your hand behind your back please yeah please don't fight it's not going to be in your best interest okay I 195 you I'm in service ma'am ma'am your hand ma'am ma'am ma'am ma'am ma' I understand that listen to what I'm saying 393 what are you talking about ma'am help help her to the house all right yeah let's go take it to the car and we can read pocket okay man where's your shoes at you have shoes on yeah driving the car just fell off of her you don't have any shoes come on wait for what for what she might have some in the car go ahead I I'll look in the car and see if there's take it to the car she's got there we go we got the video yeah yeah he's going to he's going to uhat email them to uh sitting in the driver seat of the car anyway hey just so you know uh LT there's a a mixed drink here oh you got pictures of that please yeah so and I'm pretty sure yep that's a mixed drink as well okay better me I don't put myse in there well I I I just want to smell and obviously yeah premium cocktail all that stuff [Music] there of your own will you submit to the state or minister chal of your Des which T ma'am so which one did you hear the last did you hear what I just asked you would you submit to the state administer chemical test of you of testes of your stop I'm sorry desate which test which test would you like to take you tell her which test bre breath breath ma'am you going to take the breathalizer huh you want to take a breathalizer er a breath lizer for what I'm at my house what do you mean I'm at my house would you like to take a breath lizer test I'm in my house I I don't see I am at my house that's not home based ma'am you you were operation of this motor vehicle while you're under the influence of alcohol back for me sit back for me if you can sit back you see did you see me ma'am does matter sit back nobody's talking to you sit back ma'am turn your face to the left for me so I can put your seat can you cl to the left crazy what she say as far as test she didn't respond she just sat at her house she never responded to to doing the uh test I said breath but she didn't I can actually she respond refuse okay uh this is her keys to the car I don't know where we could put them so I would say I'll put it in the jail property we'll have pictures for you uh there's alcohol in the middle okay go check that out put okay take pictures I also open the M want to get the video from him yeah we're going to get all the video and all the other stuff that you need officers contacted the child's grandmother but she was unable to pick the child up fortunately another child's relative lived nearby and was able to take temporary custody I took pictures of that too Miller I'll uh I'll add that to the report for you okay you got pictures the damage of the car yeah I got pictures of the the flat tire and the other side back here oh I didn't see the other oh oh thank you Mom yeah hey so the just to give you an update what's going on okay uh they talked to the grandmother and the mother or whatever okay she lives in in where she had just came from over there that's where they came from today okay and she lives too far okay so there's a half brother who's in his 20s that she's trying to get a hold of now this if he can come and get the boy so that's what we're waiting on now Sor it's okay yeah thank you for that let me get so get that hold on let me I like yeah right there good boom yeah just make sure there ain't nowhere else uh that should be it all right there's three different spots on that vehicle so this lady the lady here is not his real mom it's his aunt who's taking care of him cuz real mom is is in jail for du this is his aunt so Mom real mom is in jail for your du really for drinking problems do you have Gavin no we're calling Gavin now Gavin right oh he is coming here it's Gavin hey Gavin yeah hey this is Greg the next door neighbor I'm here with uh the police uh Catherine's being taken in and are you able to come take care of G or uh Liam yeah I'm on my right now I'm about to walk out the door okay how far away are you okay we'll see you soon all right okay all right that's another reason you're being okay here's a phone okay Gavin's going to be here in 15 minutes okay huh Miss Clemens I'm going to get um go in your car cuz I locked it so she can get your son some shoes okay so I'm going to get the shoes out can can you wait Can can you let me out of this for a second let hey can you let me out of this for a second listen for what wait for what hey whoa what I'm trying to be respectful what do you need is what my question it's not not about respect what do you need we have a time what do you need you just said that what do you need you said that Gavin was coming yes ma'am right he's literally to straight away yes ma'am right what's your point wow you don't have be all right put put put put your face in please no no no put your face in put your face in the woman was charged with DUI possession of an open container and transported to the deob county jail hey we're going uh the the report uh defax referral has been uh sent she's uh sent it up she'll contact us within 24 hours about def they do for you exactly yeah see I didn't I didn't know that that's news to me yeah yeah oh they done messed up with that now yeah yeah all right let's let's get out of here from house yeah cool see y'all