today on Alpha responder Network this is not a dry reservation but they do not allow hard alcohol I'm going to have you poured out okay you got a warrant right now yeah come to find out he got into a domestic violence and he's a suspect from earlier this morning join us as we ride along with the nation's bravest Alpha responders this is Alpha responder Network [Music] my name is Brian swany I'm currently the chief Deputy for the Navajo County Sheriff's Office Navajo County is up in the northeastern portion of of Arizona I think it's the best County in uh in Arizona I'm a little biased on that so the chief Deputy is uh is basically the number two to the sheriff the sheriff is the elected official and then the chief Deputy is typically um appointed by the sheriff the way I kind of describe it is you you're acting like you're the chief of police so uh although the sheriff is the agency head um the the the chief Deputy kind of runs the day-to-day operations really all the boring stuff of of a law enforcement agency is what I get to do been here almost 5 years uh working for Sheriff klouse and working with the great men and women here at the Navajo County Sheriff's Office is uh quite the treat we are in downtown White River Arizona this is kind of the uh the Central Point uh the capital if you will of the White Mountain Apache uh reservation as a child I lived here for about a year I went to kindergarten Here in White River my dad was a uh Arizona highway patrolman it started in 1973 and this was his first Duty station this is the culta sack right here and this H this green house over here on the corner that's the one that I lived in back in 1973 every one of these communities have kind of a strange to those that don't live on the reservation a strange name so we got Cemetery we got One Step Beyond got Dark Shadows Ben Gay up north is jurass Jurassic Park we've got up by the hospital is uh Rainbow City um we've got Chinatown Knots Landing there's all kinds of uh unique names for uh for the neighborhoods you know in a typical City where you say yeah I live at you know 123 North Main Street very rarely do you get dispatched to a u a residence here it's more like it's two doors down from so and so it's the blue house that's how and it is such a tight-knit community here that's how they everybody knows where everybody lives uh this is kind of the downtown area here as you can see there's lots of cars and stuff in the area lots of activities going on right now because of the uh tribal fair and rodeo this is is their big big event annually we're going to have deputies and lots of Staff down here uh working uh assisting the Tribal Police with different calls and stuff down here many reservations around the country are called are dry are dry reservations White Mountain Apache is not you can buy packaged liquor here they don't have a bar you can't buy whiskey you can only buy packaged beer and you can see up in here there'll be this lots of people up in the trees and whatnot but yeah this is called The Sundowner liquor store and uh this is a very popular place as as you can imagine especially on a weekend like this this place does create a lot of problems what happens is they come in a lot of them will come in and the ones with a problem they'll buy their booze and they'll go up here in the trees and they'll just they'll get extremely intoxicated and a lot of times they become victims victims of crime whether it's a soul sex assaults thefts what have you over the years I've gone in here a lot with the police department because somebody's been beaten to a pulp and their beer was taken from them or their money or they were assaulted you know something they've done a good job theyve gone in here and trimmed up some trees where you can actually be in the parking lot and see where years ago it was just thick and you couldn't see up in there and it was it would kind of generate a a great place for people to be become victims if you're a business owner listen up the sponsor of this video crimshield helps protect your business by letting you know exactly who is working for you their thorough background checks on your applicants keep criminals out of your business and you out of the courtroom go to cri.com and protect your company today let's just check on him real quick hey how are you are you good I was going to the hospital you're going to the hospital where you're going the wrong way it's that way can you take me over there no no what do you got in your pocket here what do you got here move your hand that's a whiskey move yeah let go let go you can't have this okay what else you got nothing you got no more you got no more booze no okay what are we going to do with this just me drink it kind of violates the purpose doesn't it yeah are you going are you okay yeah I'm okay all right you're going to be uh you shouldn't be out here in this I mean this is not the main road here but you need to stay down in this stay down in this area in here so you don't get hit by a car all right okay I'm going to hang on to this actually what what we're going to do is I'm going to have you I'm going to have I'm going to have you poured out okay I'm going to have you pour it out out all of it yeah this is lot I know I know but you can't have that you can't have that I know that hurts your feelings doesn't it it did you can have the rest right on here let's let's give me the cap I'll take this for you though okay okay all right we don't want a litter but you'll you're okay though yeah all right I'm okay just stay out the road all right okay all right have a good day yeah like I said earlier this is this is not a dry reservation but they do not allow um hard alcohol that was obviously a bottle of vodka um you can drink down here you can't drink in public like that um or have and he's basically what they call public intoxication so he would be in violation of tribal code for public intoxication um he wasn't causing any heartache so there's really no sense in taking in you know a Hardline enforcement action on that but he can't have that open container of alcohol here on the reservation so the key thing here is is that came from somewhere else because they don't sell that here on the White Mountain Apache so the bootlegging issue is very is is a big deal so what they what a lot of people do is they cat gather a bunch of money uh and they run up to Pinetop to the Circle K or any you know Walmart or wherever up there and they'll and they'll buy a whole bunch of booze and of alcohol that you can't get on the reservation here and then they'll they'll come down here and they'll sell it at extremely escalated prices and U it's against Tribal Law to to uh bootleg uh the liquor so it's a big problem um it's a big problem uh they just don't don't have you know the the the resources to to address to address that in the way that it needs to be addressed so um I hated to do that for that guy there but he was already as you could tell he was already pretty heavily intoxicated and and uh By the time he'd have finished off that bottle um he might have been in some sort of a medical problem there so um kind of kind of hurts your feelings a little bit to make him pour it out uh but it's illegal to have and bottom line he doesn't really need anymore today so so yeah this Fairgrounds down here this is the big event for for this community it brings people from all over the western part of the United States Team Roping bull riding Bron riding you name it it's all here everybody looks forward to this Carnival and the rodeo [Music] greetings Navajo County we're coming to you live not live greetings Navajo County we're coming to you from White River we're at the White Mountain aache tribal fair this weekend celebrating all weekend the deputies are going to be here help support the [Music] tribe this this thing this thing storm's coming in yeah there's one for you yeah let's do a picture yeah hello Hi how are you you look amazing thank you you look awesome this is Sheriff Claus Navajo County Sheriff okay and this I'm good hello how are you I'm good how are you ma'am good well you look fantastic thank you I appreciate it yeah yeah do you mind if what's that Junior Miss White Mountain okay right on and this gentleman here is from uh he's got a YouTube channel I see [Music] yeah light on light on have a nice day you guys you too thank you very much you look you look fantastic thank you we'll see you guys around all right byebye right on me to hold on to something right on thank you sir appreciate you appreciate you guys too thank you you don't get no better than that so right now uh' been asked to do a a radio communications check in years past we've not had any radio communications whatsoever here in the in the community of White River our radio infrastructure 5 years ago was is extremely Antiquated we had a very small picture of of area that was covered by Communications which is a problem it's a in a very rural County that we're in the deputies are working alone many of the times and the one Lifeline we had is right here in this radio and it wasn't it wasn't working we were very fortunate to get a couple different grant opportunities to uh to invest into our our radio system so over about the last three years we've invested right around about $6 million into our into our radio infrastructure where we went from four radio sites throughout the county that's 10,000 square miles to we are at 8 currently uh they just lit up number nine which we're going to test right now let me get out and try it outside takes a second for it to register with the with the LTE so LTE is basically it it'll work off of the cell the cell tower system all right we'll give this a try Navajo 2 radio check on D2 LTE come on loud and clear how do you receive you are loud and clear thank you that's 139 that's fantastic I don't know that we've ever ever ever been able to talk to Holbrook on a portable from this Fairgrounds so uh gained a lot of ground in the Communications Department so that's good news this is going to be the main command post for this uh for this operation we'll go in here and check it out I think they have a briefing tonight at like 6 or something so we'll go in and check out the we'll check out the briefing or command post I should say hey how you doing I'm good how are you good you be behaving yourself sir right on right on it's good to seeing you good seeing you do you watch the uh do you watch the alpha responder network no well you need to okay right on thanks guys no problem you guys be safe it's good to seeing y'all good to seeing you buds we'll see you later yeah tell sharkk yes said hey [Music] all right so we're down here in White River today they have their White Mountain Apache tribal Fair uh it's a yearly event that happens in the late summer to early fall we do uh a lot of foot patrols around we've got tons of guys out here tonight just trying to keep the peace have a presence in the area we're also here to support our fellow agencies how old are you uh 21 21 all right well you can't be drinking inside the fair okay you got a ride to take you home yeah I to take guys home too you do my little cousin can I get your ID real quick yeah I don't even have an ID too right now you don't have your an ID no this on uh did he ride in the rodeo tonight yeah we just just cuz he got his SPS on he lost a ra can I check you for your wallet see if you got it on you yeah yeah go ahead man don't lose your money better put it back in your pocket I have this one in okay yeah I what's his name don't lose it how do you spell that yeah I don't know how to spell I'm sure that thing come by yeah there you go what is it yeah it is okay so we cannot have him intoxicated while he's on the property here we got to yeah we got him just trying to find we got to see him off though so you guys want to go ahead and take him and pick up the uh pick up the bottle would you hey are you going to go shoot a horse uh tomorrow morning got are my help going take want to walk him off the property that way go ahead go you right all right come on see you later yeah be careful all right your friends are going to help you you okay yeah no you're going the wrong way there you go all right all right see you come on your [Music] light so obviously as the night goes on there's going to be a little bit more drinking and whatnot it's pretty strict here at the tribal fair that there is no drinking uh we got a 17-year-old intoxicated person um we're going to try to get him situated obviously he's pretty intoxicated So currently at this time it is 827 hey we're smooth [Music] yeah how old are you I'm 19 okay yeah and how much have you drank tonight not that much man okay what does not that much mean two two shots two shots of what two shots vodka two shots of vodka yeah okay we're going to have you walk over here to our uh our vle real quick and can we have you blow into a PBT or a breath test are you on probation no you sure no I'm not on probation yeah I just got to take care of my warrant on the 11th yeah you got a warrant right now yeah you got a warrant for your arrest right now no they they got next court date on the 11th on 11th they serve me my work they told me yeah I think you went to jail last time for his okay so walk with us over to our uh we call it our Command Post come over to our cars okay all right come on you don't got any weapons on you no can I patch you down real quick yeah just keep your hands out of your pockets appreciate it check the back everything okay in your back how's your night been going so far huh how's your night been going so far it's going pretty good yeah I was trying to look for my d can go back I'm going to step on this side all right well you're 19 you can't really be drinking okay um so we're just going to have you come over here and you'll talk to the uh White manache Police Department for a minute you just got arrested for the warrant which was for underage drinking I got up and you're 19 and you're drinking again man I ain't drinking like drinking well you drink and can't be consuming alcohol I'll shine for you so you don't you can see where you're walking go ahead that way you think I'm going to go to jail well we're going to come talk to the White Mountain Apache police department and then we'll see what happens they might be able to just site you tonight so how much have you had to drink two shots two shots of what rum rum yeah where'd you get the rum this from one of my friends oh yeah yeah stand up stand up for me just look right here right here at the tip of my pin til your hit down a little bit and then uh you move the hair out your face there you go look right here at the tip of my pin hold your head still follow with your eyes hold your head still all the way you're looking [Music] away so here's the thing man you you just had a warrant you just got out of the nav County jail for underrage drinking you're out here tonight you're drinking again so we're going to have them talk to you about all this did you get a release order saying that you weren't supposed to be drinking alcohol or anything like that obviously you're not since you're under 21 but did the court specifically tell you that as well yep okay and you're out here you drinking again tonight I'm not like the way the way I was like I I'm not saying that you're falling down drunk right now yeah I would can't be drinking like he said you can't be drinking I for domestic violence and all that but I'm okay and you had a warrant so they're going to talk to you a little bit and and they'll they'll deal with you the best that they can all right so this guy came up to us he uh smelled of alcohol he admitted to drinking he told us he's 19 years old one of our guys just recognized him from being into our nav County jail for charges of under underage consumption of alcohol uh we turn him over to the White Mountain Apache police department and come to find out he got into domestic violence and he's a suspect from earlier this morning so they went ahead and placed him into custody they had probable cause for his arrest based on the incident prior and along with the UNR consumption of alcohol how's it going man over yo cuz I'm not even doing nothing to I was just walking around does does your probation allow you to drink huh cuz I I just turned 21 too that guy wanted a selfie that's hey does a does I didn't I I didn't steal any bottles or nothing do um allowed him to drink no come on you guys watch bro watch no I'm not watching my feet watch your knees come on watch your knees bro no I'm not watching my [ __ ] knees watch all right which one yours [Music]