On October 24th, 2022, officers responded to the scene of a deadly crash involving a highly intoxicated mom and her child. She's now, that's fine. Let the paramedics take care of Come on. She didn't um She told me already she was driving the car. I need Casey. I need I need Casey. Sit down. Sit. I don't care. I need I need my cousin. [Music] She got my cousin Casey. Sit down on the curb. She's with the paramedics. Sit down. I know. I'm fine. I'm fine. Please. I will. I will. I'll help you down. I'll help you down. Sit down. Please sit down. I will. Well, please. Please. Please. Please call Casey husband. Okay. Sit down. Please. I will. Well, please call Casey husband. Please. Hey, how fast were you going? I wasn't going fast at all. Sit down. Do you think more than 15 miles hour? I was like 35. It's that it's 35. It's that 35. If that if that wasn't that [Music] is that dad, [Music] is this dad? Who is he? Who is he? Her dad. Her dad. Okay. What's your name, hun? I'm her father. That's your father. Okay. What's your name? My name is Lauren. Lauren? Do you have a license in the car? Yes, I do. Where's it at? I It's in my uh in my purse. Do you mind if I go in there and grab it? Go ahead. Okay. Where was she at when you guys got here? She was standing right here. And then there was a bystander, a couple bystanders. And then so she was here. There was a Latino guy standing here and he seemed like he was walking past. There's no witness here. Yeah, this is the guy right there. She found the little one on the floor here. She got a head. Yeah, there's a little girl right there. She was in the vehicle. She got abrasion to her head and look like she or something. dad to this is not correct. Okay. Well, we'll talk. Okay. I was the one that called it in. Okay. Did you see the wreck happen? No. I went around the corner from work and just saw them just like against the pole. I was like, "What?" Okay. I saw like reverse lights on. She was trying to like get out and then she just like gave up. Was she in the driver's seat like trying to drive or what was she wearing? Um, she piercing. Okay. Would you recognize her if you saw her? She was in the driver's seat. Okay. I really don't want to deal with this. I want to call this. Do you have your ID on you? 19, right? Right, sir. The hospital has to walk to the hospital. Mom's not going. They're taking the baby's not right. I don't know anything about the mom. They're They're trying to convince him to I'm not taking your truck. You need to take care of your truck. Let them take the baby. Let them take your daughter. Go secure your vehicle. Let them take your daughter. They're in good hands. police. Let them take your daughter. The daughter. They've got to go. They've got to go. She needs to go with them. Okay. So, what's going on with her? She's hammered. I mean, is she going Is she being transported or not? One of the deputies told my paramedic They wanted her to stay here. She didn't want to go to the hospital. She said she doesn't want to go to the hospital. Okay. So, I just like Ma'am, come over here and have a seat. Ma'am. Ma'am, come over here and have a seat. Ma'am, have a seat now. Yeah, I know. Sit down. Have a seat. Have a seat. Sit down. Let me go in there. I need to have a seat. They're getting ready to take her to the hospital. Before you hurt yourself, sit down. No, she is fine. She is okay. All right. She's with our partners. She's fine. He doesn't give a [ __ ] about her. I'm sorry. I need to go with her. Please. He doesn't give a [ __ ] about her. We don't give a [ __ ] about her. What's your first name? I don't care. I I need to know your first name. I need to go with my mother daughter. Instagram does not give a [ __ ] about my daughter. I'm calling What's your birthday? 11th 7:30 a.m. I'm playing. I need to go with my daughter. Please, I need to go with my daughter. Please can I leave my daughter alone? Please, somebody. Somebody husband is my [ __ ] cousin. She's a paramedics. Okay, they're I don't give a [ __ ] who is a piece of [ __ ] Please, I need you to go in there with her. No car running. I was I can her please. I need some money. Please. Hey, look at me. Lauren. Lauren, we have some paperwork for you. Okay. We got to give you your information back. Okay. Lauren. Why? I want my I want my crib here. I want my kids here. All my kids here. All right. Here's here's your ID back. Here's your driver's license back. Okay. Okay. And you're being provided with a driver exchange and a citation for careless driving. Okay. Go ahead and take that from me. There you go. Your options to pay that or contest that corner on the back. Lauren, your daughter is with the paramedics right now. Okay. Thank you. I'm so good. She's with the She's with the paramedics. The paramedics care about her. Okay. So, we finished this civil traffic investigation and we are now changing into a criminal DUI investigation. So, I'm going to go ahead and read you your rights. All right. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you Okay. So, I'll wait. I'm going to be arrested. No. We're doing a criminal DUI investigation. Okay. That's our job. Who wants my baby? I need to Okay. Okay. You have the right to remain silent. Any statements? Do you understand each of these rights that I've explained to you? Yes, I [ __ ] do. Okay. Having these rights in mind, do you wish to talk with us, Lauren? Having those rights in mind, do you still wish to talk to us? Yes, I do. You're [ __ ] up. That's the whole point. So, what happened? So, what happened? Cuz guess what? I [ __ ] take care of her 24/7. She goes home. Lauren, what happened tonight? I [Music] Lauren. What? What happened tonight? Well, tonight I went to my friend's house. Okay. And I drink a little bit. Okay. And I drove home. When you say a little bit, how many alcoholic beverages did you have? I had like one one what? Maybe two shots of one and one cup mix. Two shots of water. Mix. Like was it vodka? Tequila. Tequila mixed with one. Mixed though. Okay, so that makes it better if it's mixed, right? No. Okay, then what happened? Approximately how long ago did you drink? Approximately how long ago did you drink? What? Approximately how long ago did you drink? I told you like 8 hours ago. 8 hours ago. Okay. Okay. Do you know what time it is right now? Okay. I really don't. Honestly, um, would you be all right to perform some standard help? I can drive. Lauren. Lauren. Hey, I just got a question for you. Would you be willing to participate in some standard field sobriety exercises for us to determine that you're good to drive? I'll help you. I will. I can help you. Yes, sir. Please call my mother. Yes. Whoever wants to call, we just make sure you're okay. Katy husband, please call him right now right now. Please call Katy husband. Come here. Okay. Please. Um, yeah. We can probably do it over here. No, I'm not. Get You're okay. You're okay. You're okay. I'm sorry. If you need a pet, just fence. Okay. You're okay. You're okay. All right. You're okay. You're okay. I know. I got you. No, I can't I can't hug. Okay. I'm sorry. It's against policy. Hug. Listen. But you can lean up against that fence if you'd like. Oh, that's lovely. That's so [ __ ] lovely. That's so [ __ ] We're trying to help you, Lauren. Okay. Um All right. Hey, Lauren. You mind just coming over here? You know, you this flat surface here. What? This flat surface over here just so it's flat on on your feet. You know, you know what? Baby daddy's been trying to steal my baby for like four or five years. He's from Brazil. He's illegal. Okay. This one. He's illegal. He's not trying to steal my baby. Okay. Let's go over here on the flat surface so we can do some field exercises. Okay. Here, I can help you walk. Okay. Open. All right. So, do you normally wear Okay. All right. Do you normally wear glasses or contacts? No, I need glasses though. No, no glasses. No contacts. Let me fall back. Okay, don't fall. I'm not going to fall. I want you to fall back. I'm not hold you. Okay. 30 seconds. Okay. You okay? Yeah. I don't get back. All right. You heard it. You can stand up by yourself. You can. Yes. Okay. He's some exercises to do. Okay. Get away from me. He's here to help you. He's here to help you. Okay. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to check your eyes. You said you don't wear uh glasses or contacts, right? I need I need to I can, but I can't. I can, but I can't. My back is cramping on this this side. This side is cramping. I mean, honestly, you're shaking. Can you stand up? Cuz it's a little cold. Can you stand up? Okay. All right. Um, you know, I'm 31 years old, bro. Can you stand up by yourself or No, I can't stand up by myself. You can stand by yourself. Okay. Try to stand up. Okay. Ready? You got to stand up. Okay. By yourself. She keeps pulling on me. Okay. No. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. I'm getting cramps right here. Hold on a second. All right. All right. Just a second. Hold on. Hold on. There you go. Very good. I'm getting cramps. Right back. Do me a favor. There you go. Just keep that hand right there for me. Oh, me that would be a All right. So, right now you're being placed under arrest because I have reasonable belief that you are intoxicated while operating a vehicle with a child in the car and you're unable to perform the field sobriety exercises. Okay. I think I have three right now. I think you've had too much to drink. Okay. Are you able to find out more information on the child? Yes. You're going to cuz now you're under arrest. You're going to walk. I'm going to memorize the time. My cousin right now, please. Well, call your cousin. Okay. Please call my cousin right now. Please. You're pushing me. You're pushing me. Because you weren't walking. Are you Are you going to walk? Yes. I'm going to walk. Okay. Walk for me. Okay. Let me stand up. Please. It's hurting. It's hurting my back. Okay. So, please, if you cooperate, we'll we won't pull you. But if you don't walk, I'm going to pull you. It's hurting. Don't pull me. Then walk. I am. But hold on a second. It's It's like craving on my left side. Do you understand what you did tonight? Yes, I understand what I did tonight. You know why? Cuz I'm in the mix. Look at Look at my Look at my chin. Look at my chin. Okay. We're going to walk over to this car over here. Okay. It's probably pretty irresponsible to drive this child. Yes, I know. But look at my chair. All right. You can barely stand up. Just going to we're going to hang out right here. We're going to have a female officer come and search you. Okay. Look. Look at my chin. There's nothing on me. Look at my chin. The massively abused. Look at me. Look at my chin. Please look at my chin. Look. Your chin? Yeah. Yeah. I see a little bit of bruising. It's probably from when you impacted the steering wheel. No, it was not. It was from two from Saturday. From Saturday. Him. You know, whatever. Just take me to jail. I don't care. Whatever. Just send me to jail. All right, we'll get there soon. I don't want to go to jail. Please call my cousin. Please, please call him. Please. Please call my cousin. Please. All right, Lauren. Hey, I got a question for you. Okay. What? What is the [ __ ] question? I've been I've been I've been physically abused. What do you want me to [ __ ] do? What do you want me to do? I'm now requesting that you submit to a lawful test of your breath for the purpose of determining its alcoholic content. Will you take this test? What does that mean? So, it means that I'm requesting that you submit to a lawful breath test. I will. Yes, you will. Yes, I will. Okay. All right. We'll handle that when we get to the jail. Okay. So, you're willing to get a sample of your breath? Yes, I will. Okay. I I need to sit down. My back hurts so bad. I need to sit down. You want to sit on the car? We got a curb right there. You want to sit on the curb? You want to sit on the curb? Well, [ __ ] watch him. Please watch my daughter. Please. Your daughter's going with the paramedics. All right. So, we're going to move back to this curb back here. Okay. We got you. We're We're helping you out. Please watch my daughter. All right. And go ahead and start to squat down. Squat down. We got you. Okay. We're holding you. We're holding you. There you go. There you go. Just hang tight for us. Okay. So, here's how the process is going to work. You need to play to you. No, I'm I'm asking him. I'm not talking to you. I'm asking him because you're not you're not you're not. Hey, Lauren. So, right now you're under arrest for driving under the influence. So, what's going to happen is a female officer is coming to search you cuz we have to search everybody before they go in the back of the patrol car. My vagina. I don't give a [ __ ] Lauren, nobody's talking about that. But we're going to just have a female officer come search. I want Are you going to let me explain it to you? Lauren, I'm going to run now. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Lauren, just keep talking to me. Okay. All right. So, when they come and search you, we'll transport you to the jail and you've um submitted to the request to do a uh a breath test. I've been arrested. The only time I've been arrested is when someone [ __ ] told me a stolen car and they [ __ ] And you were arrested on that? Yeah. I got I got footage from the [ __ ] charges because they stole it and they kept trying to steal it back and I got I got So we'll get you down to the jail and we'll get a a breath test done. Okay. And then they'll book you in and we'll get you out of those handcuffs. I'm [ __ ] drunk. I don't care. I don't care. I'm going to be drunk. How many drinks did you have tonight? She said two shots. Yeah. No, no, no. I didn't say no. I didn't say no [ __ ] two shots. Yes. You said you're mixed. You said you had two shots of mixed. I told I told you I had two shots of tequila. Yeah. You're lying. Am I? No. Am I lying? I don't drink tequila. I don't drink tequila. So you said two shots worth in a single cup mixed together. Great. Do you have anything else? I have benzo in my system that I have prescription for. At least she has much I have a prescription for a mixture of medicine and alcohol. I don't like to take my benzo. Can you please take these off? No, thanks. You guys, please. We are unable to take the cuffs off. Okay. I I'm sorry. Where is my daughter? She's at the hospital getting checked out because she was involved in my mother. My her father took my her father took my my daughter. Paramedics took your daughter to the hospital. She's a lot safer than what she was inside the vehicle. As long as she's not with my father her father, that's fine. As long as she's alone with her father, that's fine. That's all I care about. She's been traumatized. She's been traumatized. I had a seizure before. I didn't see her before. We'll let her know that the video start. Of course it is. Of course it is. Does her mother decide to drink and drive with her in the All right, Lauren. We're going to stand up. Okay, you ready? Here we go. 3 2 1. Got to stand up for us. There you go. We're walking right back over here to the car. Okay. I was supposed to heal my friend tonight. Okay. Do you have a bra on? I do. Okay. Do you have anything in your bra? Keep any cash or anything in there? Um, a lighter. Okay. You have a lighter cash? I don't know. You got to check. I don't know. You got to check. I don't know. That's why I asked is because I am going to check. Go ahead. Well, no. Go in my drawer and check. I will. Give me a second. You have any pockets on your shorts? No. No pockets. Can you stand up for me and like quit slouching in front? No, I can't. Why? cuz my daughter has been taken away from me by But are your legs broken, ma'am? No, ma'am. Okay, then let's stand up for me. I don't want you to fall and get hurt, so let's kind of cooperate. Okay. Where's your cash at in your bra? I just I didn't know if there was cash in my bra or not. Go in my bra. Go in my bra and feel it. Okay. All right. We're going to get you out of the jail so you can do a breath sample. Okay. I don't want to [ __ ] go to jail, man. I didn't do anything. All right. Are you going to be able to step on into the car on your own? Yes. Take this off, please. We can't do that. Go ahead and put your left foot up and step in the back of the car. Okay. Lauren, I need Yes. I need like a side support here. Like something with the Well, there's a door. I can't reach it. Well, you got to step forward. Okay, homie. You can do one leg. One leg in. One leg in. Right up there. I know, but I can't. Come on, Lauren. Lauren, stand up. Start paying attention. Okay, I am paying attention. Slouching over is not helping. Stand up. [ __ ] This is [ __ ] You should stand up. Stand up for me. Stand up for me. Listen. I can't hear you when you're slouching. Okay, stand up for me. I can't. My back hurts. I can't. Okay. Well, then I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying. Okay. Yeah, you're doing good. There you go. There you go. I got you. I'll help you up. Ready? Three, two, one. Ready? One, two. And again. Ready? One, two, three, go. There we go. All right. Get that leg in there for me. How the [ __ ] is this illegal ass [ __ ] and not [ __ ] Get that leg in the car for me. How the [ __ ] is He's illegal. I'm going to seat belt you in to make sure that you're nice and safe. Okay. How the [ __ ] he's illegal? He's picking my child. Slide in a little bit more for me. Okay. Where? Wait, I need Where is my child? Where's my child? Where the [ __ ] At Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Jesus. You know her name. Yep. They're all her name. They're all in her name. I would say definitely narcotics on board, but we'll get the rest of the first there. Okay. Knife. take all they're getting ready to leave with the keys. So then we'll Oh, you're on the way back. Yeah, I'm way back there. I didn't want to come up here. Yeah, just give us a few minutes. Yeah. [Music] Heat. [Laughter] Nice to meet you, Frank. My name is Frank. Uh, I was on my call about her. Okay. Um, she was actually I'm saying Airbnb. I'm down here working for FEMA. Okay. For the debris pickup. And she was I guess she was meeting up with um the guy next door to me where you live down here. I'm I'm staying at an Airbnb right right down there where my truck is parked. Yeah. And um I mean I was ratcheting down my machine. She told me, "Hey, what the what the [ __ ] you doing? Uh making so much noise so late and people are sleeping. I could tell she was intoxicated." So I told her, "Oh, it's only 8:40. What are you talking about?" She didn't say nothing. And then she's there. But I see she had a kid in the car and she's blasted. the guy's telling her, "Hey, you want me to follow you home? You know, you're with your daughter this, this, and that." And then whatever. When they were there talking for a while, you could tell she's banged up. When she's about to leave, I tell her, "Hey, be careful." She backs up. She almost backs into the the the person across the house across from she almost backed up into her whole house. Like into her whole house. She stopped last minute. She stopped last minute and then uh she came out. When she comes out, I have a big truck and a dump trailer. Yeah. So, it's I have it half on the street, half on the on the grass. She almost comes into us like she hit you all, didn't she? No, she was close. Like last minute, I guess she saw us cuz I had I had this pointing down like that. Yeah. I guess she saw it and she swerved out and I told him, "Bro, she's not going to make it to the corner." Yeah. Just She made it to the corner. Did she hit that? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. She hit the fence. I mean, I wasn't here, but I I kind of I can picture roughly she hit the fence and then I guess she went straight into the she Yeah, she hit the toe from both. She pulled hard to the right and she went straight, but she looked bad. So, you guys saw her hit this? No, I I was You just heard I saw her um I didn't see it, but I saw her pull out of here peeling out. Yeah, she definitely opened up. Like, she opened up hard. I mean, yeah, I guess that's when she came up right there. Okay. And then she came to knock I knocked on his right. Go, hey, your girlfriend. He goes, "No, that's not my girlfriend. I just uh it was just a girl I was meeting up with. Yeah, cuz I guess he doesn't want boyfriend and her husband, whatever. Just show up here. Yeah. Okay. That's what I figured happened because that guy he came he checked his he went right back to his house. Okay. So, okay. If I need anything, I I'll I'll where that trailer is. But I mean, and the biggest thing is that I told I'm like, "Bro, she's really bad and she has a kid in the car." I mean, kid strapped up. So, kid wasn't strapped up. I know that one of one of the guys that were coming. Yeah, she's she's bad. She's really bad, huh? Yeah, if you can't tell. Yeah. So, yeah, she was really close to us. Okay. All right. Well, she she's off the streets. Be safe out there. Clean up. Thanks for coming down, guys. I appreciate it. Did you see her? Were you Did you see the crash or was it you? I saw it. But I was just pulling in coming from the store and all I saw was the car go up in the air and the lights looked like it almost spun around this way and then she over corrected me in the hole. Okay. So, but she did take the fence out here. That was it. Okay. Do Do you have an idea on that? Didn't see her get out of the car time. I got in my back. Yeah. We had somebody down there that saw her in the car. So, the guy that probably called you cuz two cars went by. We can slide back so to truck out there. Couple cars went by and he finally stopped and all I kept hearing was a kid screaming. Yeah. Is she drunk? Yeah. Did you say you had CBD gummies? Yeah, I did. Where are those at? Yeah, they're not. I didn't see them. You didn't see them. You have prescriptions for them? CBD. There's no Oh, no. This is what I'm talking about. This is what I'm talking about. What are these? Oh, that's um Turn around. This is [ __ ] cold medicine, bro. Okay. All right, cool. Just wanted to make sure. That's all. All right. Can I get on it? Hold on one second. I'll be with you in just a second. into a festival. Take you with