On July 13th, 2024, officers in Washington received a call from a concerned bystander reporting a female driver stopped in the center turn lane. Officers quickly arrived at the scene, locating the female driver inside her vehicle. Here's what the officers did next. Hey, how are you? Good. How are you? I'm okay. I was just heading home um and she was standing in the lane next to her car like I I I it's weird standing there just kind of out of it. Okay. And so I pul rolled my window down, asked her if she was okay, and she said, "No, I've got a two-month old baby in the car." Okay. And then I said, "Okay, hold on a sec. Can I turn around, pull in here, and she she's got two just trashed wheels damaged inside of her car." Okay. She says it it happened when she was like at her apartment or something. I don't know. She's not She's I think she's intoxicated. Sure seems like it. Okay. Um but she does have a two-month old in the car. Okay. Um, so I just she kept walking in the lane and then she was sitting with the door open and I just asked her to get in her car. So Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah, we'll take care of it. Thank you guys. Thank you. 14 straight plate. Hello. Hello there. Police department. Adam King Victor 4850. My name Anna. Thank you for being here. Yeah, of course. Anna, what's going on tonight? This Oh, your car is very Oh, and this? Yeah. Okay. Want to hug? How about How about you just sit sit for us? Okay. Anna, how much have you been drinking tonight? No. No drinking. Just a little bit of uh juice. A little bit of juice. What type of juice? I'm not sure. Juice, huh? Ukrainian. Ukrainian. Yeah. All right. Do you speak English? Well, is that your first? Okay. You speak English? I speak English, and English, and Russian. Oh, very cool. Three languages. It's amazing. Good for you. Thank you. What language do you speak? English. Nice. Just English. Not that cool. What uh what is in Ukrainian juice? I'm not sure. You're not sure? Okay. What happened with the wheels? I'm not sure. I have a baby 2 months old. 2 months old. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. Uh where do you live at? Tacoma. Tacoma. I used to build be in the B. Right now. Okay. Are you heading back to Tacoma? Was that your plan? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. All right. Can I get you to step out of the car, please? Leave with car. Yes. Yeah. Come on. Step out of the car. Of course. Just hold on one second. Stay right there. I'm going to ask for a third unit. Yeah. 143. Can we get a third unit, please? Disregard. We have one. Just take her to the top. Let's go over here. Okay. Okay. Come here. We're okay. We got we got somebody with them. All right, ma'am. So, I'm concerned that you've been drinking tonight. No, no, no. You have a wine. So, I look in the back of your car. You have a wine bottle with your baby. No, no, no, no. Okay. Well, I'm I'm worried you are. Okay. No. So, would you be willing to do some field sobriety tests for us just to make sure that you're No, I don't have wine. Huh? I don't have wine. No wine. Okay. But would you be willing to take some some field sobriety tests? No wine. They're voluntary. No. But you don't want You don't want to take them? No. No. Why? No. No. Okay. Would you like to take some field sobriety tests? No. Why? Okay. No. You don't want to? No. Okay. All right. So, you don't want to take Would you take a preliminary breath test? No. Just to prove your No one. Okay. Would you be willing to take a breath test? No. Can be on you, but no. On the test. Would you do a breath test on you, but not otherwise? On the device. Okay. You want to do on the device? I can breathe on you. Just hang on. Right here. Can you give me some space, please? No way. Others, huh? I can breathe on you, but no other test. Okay. No other tests. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, I I don't know what happens. I don't know. It's first in my life. Okay. Here. But Okay. So, you're not willing to take any voluntary tests? No. Okay. Where you born? I was born here. You have a year old baby, huh? You born in Tok? Yes. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where were you born? Did you say you give me a little space? Uh, Ukraine. Hi. Can you mark? But I'm I'm a citizen of America. You're a citizen of America? Yes. That's awesome. Good for you. Yeah. Yeah, I'm really happy to hear it. My baby, too. Okay, you're I have a baby in my car. No, I'm sorry. And we broke up. Um, can you just mark that they denied fields and do not want to do fields? Okay. All right. So, at this time, you're going to be honestly love police. All right. So, at this time, you're going to be under arrest right now for for suspicious DUI. Okay. No, no, no. I didn't My baby with my milk. Okay. Can you do me a huge favor? What your milk? What your name? Take photos. My baby is hungry. He's hungry. Okay, I hear you. One sec. But you take food from my baby. She is hungry. She's hungry. Okay. Your decision because she's hungry. Okay, we'll figure that out. What is your name? My name is Officer Gribble. Gribble. Yes, ma'am. Are those okay for you? Do you those feel tight or are those okay? What is your name? Are those okay? My name is Officer Cotto. Okay. Codo. All right. And so when I walked up to you, you in your car, I could very greatly smell the odor of intoxins of alcohol in your on your breath. So I got you outside. You almost wobbled into the roadway. So I'm greatly concerned that you're intoxicated with a two-month-old in your car. No. Okay. So what I'm going to do is we're going to go back to my vehicle and we're going to go and put you in the car. Okay. No. All right. Well, once we get over here, we're going to take you over there once this car passes. All right. No. All right. And do you have don't really have a say at this point. You're coming with us. My baby is sleeping. I understand. Go take care of your baby. Okay. She's congested. I understand. She's my daughter. I get it. We We'll get We'll get her taken care of. All right. Yep. Ma'am, ma'am, I need you to face this this flag right here. Would you take I need Would you would you take milk for your daughter? Would you take milk from your daughter? Okay. You do take milk from your traffic. Would you take milk from your No, we're going to get her taken care of. Don't worry. I'll help your daughter. My daughter, she's hungry. She eating from my boobs. But hey, what's your what's your what's your name? My Anna. Anna. Okay, listen. She eating milk from my boobs. Okay, listen. Last time in the Listen, listen. Deep breath. She's hungry. Hey, depress listen. She's hungry. Listen. What is your name? Officer Batson. I need you to listen to me. She's hungry. Are you going to listen to me? You want my milk? Do you want my milk? I'm not going to talk to you, though. Widen your stance. Widen your stance. Do you have anything on you? Anything that's going to poke me, stick me? No. Okay. Nothing. What is your name? Officer Batson. Batson. Batson. Batson. You have children? I do. And I How many? It doesn't matter. How many? It doesn't matter. Do you have anything that's going to poke me or stick me? No. Okay, I'm going to search you. Nothing on me. I absolutely nothing on me. My baby. What? You I don't know what happened to my car. Your car is getting towed. I don't know what happened to my car, but my baby want my milk. I have milk. Do you have any formula or anything in the car? In the car? Yes, I do. Do you have diapers in the car? Yes. Okay. Where are they? I'll show you. No, tell me. You're not going back to the car. Behind. Behind it. Behind. Behind? Behind the car? In the trunk? Both? Both? Yes. So, there's a Is there a diaper bag? I show you. You're not going to show me two places. Two places with my You can tell me. Your mother. Your mother. You already asked me that question. He's not. I show me. I will show you. I'll find it. Let's turn the car. Your name is RC. Let's go. We're going to go in the car. Okay. Follow me. No, you're going in the car. We're driving on the foot. All right. And and reckless endangerment. Two separate charges. Yeah. In the car. Help me. Oh my god. In the car. Don't sit down. Help me. Don't sit down. Come with me. Ma'am, please sit down. Sit with me. You mother. You know what I mean? Sit back. She need me. Sit back. Same with me now. No. Sit with me. Sit back. Her name is me. Please. Please. I'm not sitting with you. Sit with me. Sit with me. She's my daughter. Sit back. Sit with me. Sit back. Move your legs. Please move your legs. Sit with me. She's my daughter. She brought to my me. I'm from Ukraine. From I'm from H. Listen, listen. I'm born in K. Listen. I am citizen of America. I'm citizen of America. I get it. This baby is mine. No one else. Then that's fine. And we're going to take care of her right now. No, no, no, no, no. You don't understand who what is going on. I born in Ukraine. Okay. Hark. But what's in your mouth? My I born in Ukraine. Hark. What's in your mouth? Okay. Spit it out. Spit it out. That's only for making spit it out. You're asking me reckless endangerment DUI. Gotcha. Two separate charges. Take her in. Try try. She's I'm I'm going to need two or three. Take him with you. Yeah. Um him and I have this Did we start a toe yet? Um I think so. Yeah, it sounded like they called on saying the other toe coming. There's not another female on, is there? Cuz they're going to need me to search her. She's pissed. Hi, baby. All right, we need to find diapers. You need to help me find diapers and bottle. The bottle's in his arm. So, apparently this is a girl getting bloody nerd. I know. Just uh ask for them to help you if you need it. Sounds good. It's okay, baby. Yep. Bye. It's okay, baby. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. You're okay, baby. It's okay. It's okay. This is ridiculous. Still smelling the vehicle. Come here, baby. Come here. You're sweating. Like sweating. Sweating. Oh, yeah. Sweating. Try to get that phone. Yep. Out. Sweating. There you go. We'll change your butt when we get to the department, too. And then we'll really know if you're a boy or a girl, cuz I can't tell. There we go. Oh, I know. I know. I know. I don't know if you have a paci. I don't know. I know. I know, baby. I know, baby. We got wipes. Yeah. I already I already packed it. Good. Nice. Yep. I know baby. [Music] Yes, [Music] please. You need my protection. You need my help. You my daughter. You my life. You deserve me. You don't understand because you're the hell because of my daughter. So, I'm just going to let you know. So, what's going on right now is so CPS, Child's Protective Services. They currently are with your child. They're going to be they're going to be with her until you guys can get everything resolved in uh the courthouse, okay? On Monday, you should be able to speak with the judge about your current situation. All right? And then please if you have somebody reach out to you about about this situation and it's it's CPS calls, child protective services, please give them if you can the phone number of Donovan cuz I believe the jail staff has access to chargers and things like that. Okay. When you get to the jail, what you can do is they'll I'm I'm almost positive they'll give you a phone call. You should have the right to have a phone call and you'll be able to contact Donovan. All right. That's gonna be very important because until it father's found or located, the your baby's going to stay with child protective services. I can tell you right now, your daughter's going to be just fine. She's going to be just fine. Oh my god. You put her, ma'am. You put your daughter in a very dangerous spot tonight. drinking and driving. I ask you for your help because you need your help. I need your help because my friend I ask your help because I believe in you. [Music] [Applause] What? She needs my milk. My name is my milk. I wish she was with my milk. My milk. My babies got me. What the [ __ ] Oh my god. Yeah. This is my cup. What? Come here. There's bats in here. She saw the scene. All right. Relax. She Yeah, she's pressing. Let me just do some rocking now. [Applause] Calm down. This leg's secure. Watch your face on the knee. Watch your face on the knee. I see it. Still here for two months. I'm good here. Two months. Two months old baby. Two months old. Two months old baby. All right. All right. We're tight. Months old. Not the kids. Not the people who do my my no behind your You want to get one of those behind my This is actually Russell's any of us former corrections try to help whenever there's a chair involved cuz Just wrestle. I have no idea how I understand how Egyptian because of people like him. I know. Yeah. That's what I've been saying. You understand? I do. Oh my gosh. I know. We're going to get through this. Oh my gosh. I thought America is the best country in the world. But what I see now uh you guys keep her that or are you doing arms? Cuz if you guys keep her for a moment baby my milk you don't believe me. I have milk from my boobs. She need my milk. If [Music] you will have milk because my baby need this milk and you take it. Hi baby. The police become police. Take his mother. Oh my gosh. I real pulled off. You was there. I remember your teeth. Oh my gosh. I remember this guy behind me. He tires are just I was going behind me. He was behind me. I remember his his car and his Oh god. Watchus. This guy was there. There. Yes. He was there. He was there. No. Where was I at? Yes, you were there. I was there. Ah, you was there. I told you. And that's why you're here. But my baby 2 months old. Oh my gosh. He took my necklace. He took my necklace. He steal my necklace. You took my necklace. You take my my baby. Need my milk. He took my necklace. My baby. My baby need my milk. But this man my baby and he put my ne are you okay? Are you okay? Are you support is what are you doing? Is that what polices become? You are shame on me. You are shame. Shame shame. What's your last name? I didn't like you because you are shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame of America. You was born. You are shame. Shame of America. You are shame. You are shame of America. I'm American citizen. You are shame of America because my baby is my milk. And you shame of America. Shame of America. Because my baby eat my milk. You h me here from my baby. Because my baby is my youngest babies and they must from their babies. You're shameful of America. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame for America. Shame. You're shameful of America. Especially this man. I remember I remember you are spitting. You are you know you turn to the left. I know who I know. You look that way. I remember you. I remember you. You have the right to talk to attorney before answering any questions. What is your name again? One moment. If you can exercise these rights at any time. Do you understand these rights? Totally. I What is your name again? My name is Officer Cod. Your child is with Your child is with one of our officers. Okay. We are trying to find father. I'm trying to trying to find father. I get it. I'm trying to find father and we can't We're trying to locate him and we can't find him. Do you Do you have a phone number for him or anything that I can give them? What? A phone number for the father? The father doesn't have milk. I have my book. I get it. But do you know where father is? Father doesn't have milk. I have I understand. And ma'am, you're you're not unfortunately you're not going to be seeing your child for right now. Okay. My child need my I understand. Child is here at the PD. Here at the car is here. No, your car is impounded. Are you really? Well, well, let me start. But how to start? Okay. Can I help you understand what is help? What is that? I call 911. I asked the man on the road called 99 to help because my car have problem in my I lost the air in my car. Mhm. I need help from the police. You should ask me when I ask you for help. I understand. Why? The reason for why is because you were drinking tonight. No, it was very clear. I asked you for help. It was very clear. Oh my. So, do you want to listen to me? Cuz I'm telling you why. Would you like to hear what I the reasoning? Ma'am, when I approached your vehicle, it smelt heavily of alcohol. Heavy. Okay. Well, then you stepped out of your car and you decided to you got unbalanced and almost went into oncoming traffic because I stressed. I was stressed when I stress my problem. So now that's why I was stressed and I was fall down because my child was too stressed. So I gave you the opportunity to provide us a breath sample. Correct. What? I gave you the opportunity to provide a breath sample to see if you were intoxicated or do voluntary tests in which you denied all of them. So I can't I because I asked to be Yeah, sure. I asked you to be there. I asked this man to be to call you 911 to help me with my car and he said I going to call to 911 and he did. You show and you start arresting. My baby need your help. My baby need your help. Okay. And she's getting help. Okay. Okay. So, what you doing for my baby? Ma'am, we have your baby. She's safe. She's safe. I understand how you're feeling right now. Are you judging me? No. No. No. No. Judging me at all. For being a bad mother. No, not at all. Yes, you are. Ma'am, no. How do you the mother we kiss? How old is mother? Oh, your kids. Ma'am, you're not getting into this. No, I'm just trying to tell you where I'm at. I understand where you're at. Just just know I This kid is my first kid in my life. I get it. I never had kids in this. She is the first kid in my life, right? Is she born? I said to the doctor, I said to her, if she need to survive, I give out my life to her. Okay. I said it's okay if I die. I think I she live. It's okay if I die. I thought I live. Okay. And you're telling me I will carry your baby life. And right now, I'm going to tell you right now, we saved your baby's life. That's what I need to know. You were driving Ollie from what I can see being very intoxicated. You don't see I know my car wasn't possible to crash when I called to the police. I get it. I the one to call the police. I the man because my car is wasn't possible can drive. Can you see me out? Okay. You're going to have your day in court. I hope you can tell can help me. You can tell me because my car wasn't able to drive because my car I don't know why but my car wasn't both side of my car wasn't able to die. That's why I called this man and asked him to call the 911 and he did. You sure? He didn't. The suspect was charged with physical control and reckless endangerment. [Music]