on November 17th 2024 the Sarasota Police Department was alerted by a citizen to a driver that was allegedly enaging in Reckless and unsafe driving upon locating the vehicle officers make contact with a traffic stop the following shows the body warn camera footage of what happened during the incident just across the street I have to be really bad okay all right well you're going to have to hang out unfortunately there's no places to be right now yeah where is across the street um Golf Gate Tipsy tury Golf Gate Tipsy Turvy Tipsy Turvy is that a bark excuse me down at golf G oh sorry been drinking a fizzy drink what were you drinking uh Celsius fizzy drink yeah and it's a Celsius yeah you swear pinky you swear pinky here why don't we get out of the road you were you were drinking a fizzy drink come on hey yes you were drinking a fizzy drink oh you all right yes I just want to counter you counter mey I think you're trying to counter you you were drinking a fizzy drink you were drinking a fizzy drink yeah are you going to try me a fizzy drink has in a Celsius cuz I need energy energy yeah me too bro okay I just got off work do you work at Hooters yes I do okay but then you went to Hooters and then a I went to Hooters and then I went to golfgate do you work at the Hooters down in golfgate I do okay callau me red flag you what red flag caught me well what's your first name Sophia Sophia my name is Nick Nick I be and I'm going to be honest Nick have to be it seems like you are under the influence of something oh my God now unfortunately in situations like this um you know we are going to investigate a DUI I am would you be willing to participate in the no you don't want to participate in no I'm I'm literally drinking and I'm not going to drive I'm not going to drive but you were already driving problem I was not no it wasn't no I was not I mean we stopped you in the middle of the room no you didn't yeah we did no you did not look at the cars you no you did not where do you think you are right now I am in Golf Gate no you didn't you're miles from Golf Gate you did not stop me in front of Golf Gate we did not you were correct that's what I'm saying so look I want you to turn around hey it's not fair you did not stop me FR a Golf Gate Sophia I am investigating a DUI it's all right and I would like if you would participate in a coule CLE standard field sobriety exercises to determine if you're able to drive home I am not going to drive home okay well in that case we could at least pull car over but if you would be willing to participate in those exercises you want me to call Triple A like I have bee I know but right now you're not going to be able to pee I'm sorry I I'm sorry you're not going to be able to right this second can I go inside so hold on if you do if you do not participate in some of those exercises then I have to make my determination on a DUI charge based off of what I've seen so far and it seems like you know there's quite a few signs that you're under the influence I am under the influence but I did not drive swear to God but you were driving I was not I was not sopia you were driving you had the car do you remember that you had the car and drive and then I had to put it in park for you I was not no I do not well how did your car get here then my friend my friend drove it over here for me okay so that's not what happened he drove it over here for me we physically saw you driving I was not driving I was not driving you want me to participate in test do what if you're willing to yes hey and do you want me to do what you want me to do or do you want me to do what I want to do you can do whatever I'll bust out I'll bust out but I'll do what you want to do too if you're willing to participate in hey I will I will participate okay it seems like that sidewalk is nice and flat for us would you be willing to walk over there that one across the street we just got to watch this car to our left hey watch the car to left all right you're good to go watch my car all right try to get R over Dave do you mind uh turning off the front lights Dave here we're goingon to come on over here Sophia he Dave we're GNA make out we're turn off lights here hey Dave okay we're going to make out here okay we're going to make out here no we are not here we turn turn off turn off the lights we're going to wake out wait wait wait stay right there for oh okay my bed it's my bed all right I got to pee bro I know I I have the PE as PE bro I got to PE okay do you want to try this first exercise for me I will do anything for you Daddy God damn all right you in that suit I do [ __ ] anything for you sorry that's all right need your recreaction all right so this first exercise in this [ __ ] suit brother this first sorry okay this first exercise is going to test your eyes okay but before dude why are you drunk T me you know I'm drunk we have why are you doing this to me because I want to give you you you know I'm drunk why are you doing this to me I know that because we still have to why are you do this me try so you're going to drunk and then uh [ __ ] me up right no no no here you stay right there oh all right give me two seconds here what you stay right there are you going to Tas me no hold you're going to Chas me you're going to Chas me right there sophas me I'm not going to Chas you hands sorry unfortunately you're going to have to I can't bro I can't here I'll give you this to hold on in the meantime give me a citation no no bro that's not a citation it's something that you can hold so you don't have to touch is this your phone number is this your phone number nope it's blank hey put his phone number on this please please bro I think he's got something please put your pH around Sophia I know that you're drunk you know that you're drunk I am if you are willing to participate in a few exercises I would like to do those don't you don't have to do this if you don't want to I can't make you you don't have to do this I have to try to do the exercises with you but I am drunk I'm only asking your consent to do those I am drunk I will piss on the [ __ ] street bro I would appreciate if you did not do that I you and me both bro okay you and me bro okay do you want to try this one exercise Oho here wait wait stand right there and let's put your feet together hey hold on you can talk to the camera if you want but you got to stay right there you talk to the camera you you hold this hey you hold this I will talk to the camera no no hold on I will I will talk to the camera hold I will talk to the camera hello here why don't you try putting your feet together for me okay and let's put your hands down your side you're the one's taking me home right sure you're taking me home mhm I want you okay I want you okay you're taking me home right yep you are taking me home sure hey you're the ones taking me home sure I got a laugh out of him I've been laughing time I got a laugh out of him I got a laugh out him hey he's taking me home he's taking me home he all right so let's try it again sorry make left first one first one left folds first one left folds okay can you put your feet together I put my feet together and your hands under your side whatever you say Daddy okay now before we my no I was grabbing my flashlight oh whatever you want Daddy okay before we start before we start hey fish heart fish heart do you are you wearing contact right now are you wearing contact right no I'm wearing glasses no I'm wear I wearing contacts wait you see this I am wearing contacts Sophia did you see this can you put your shirt I am wearing contacts can you put your shirt down I wearing contacts I swear to God I'm wearing contacts hold on I want you it I want you it thank for like seconds I am wearing caex Sophia you might have glasses but I am wearing Contex hey Sophia I swear to God I'm wearing like two seconds why are you such a nerd bro in all seriousness bro don't be such a [ __ ] nerd bro Sophia in all seriousness everything that we do don't be such a nerd bro is body Cam and that body cam is public record nerd it's for anybody I am a nerd I am a nerd I am a nerd show it to the body cam I am a nerd okay but anything we do is I am a nerd bro hold on anything we do is recorded and anybody can see that Mom Dad Grandma family I you think I give a [ __ ] I I just wanted to let you know you think I give a [ __ ] okay hey nerd bro nerd can we just try this one exercise you want to I would like to yes do you want to come back here and stand with your feet together no I don't I actually want to stand back here my feet uh actually my arms around me like this okay F hold on so cool it's so cold want the handcuffs yeah I know come on it's so cold bro it's so cold God it's so cold [ __ ] hold on some we on some it's so cold [ __ ] hold on lean forward that's what she said all right Sophia hey wait one more pick one more pick wait no take one more picture I'm taking pictures the whole time no take one more picture come on take one more picture all right here you go take one more picture I took it there you go no you didn't I did the body cam took it remember I to pee that's to pee so bad yeah we're going to go back to this car hey yes ma'am IP you guys but first is easier or however you want want to I know this is not good news Sophia but you are going to jail tonight for DUI okay is there anybody that can come pick up your car I'm trying to see if any anybody can pick it up all right you I cannot I don't want your car to get towed I want I don't want you to have to pay for that is there anybody that can come pick up your car for you you I Sophia it's pointless money that you'll have to spend to get your car out can you call somebody that can come pick it up that won't be extremely far away you know what I I should be hanging out with brother dudes I should not be hanging out see is there somebody in your phone that we can call guys is hanging out with all right listen don't I'm saying do you trust this person with your car is what I'm trying to get out yes okay I do okay then he's going to grab your phone and we're going to see we can call him is he sober yes okay we just hold on stay right there me out for a second what you afraid of my grab your deck no yeah you are I not yeah you are Conor te yeah that's him can can I call Connor accept accept accept hey Connor hey put on speaker hold on you're going to yell too much Connor this is officer berer with the Sarasota Police Department how you doing bro [ __ ] you bro um I'm here with Sophia and we are downtown sarasa give it to me and she's going to be going to jail for a she's wondering if you can come pick up her car for her oh my God give it to me what's my badge number 1884 Connor give it to him Connor give it to him yeah who is this is this someone also [Music] downtown okay so Harry so I mean no I mean she's going to jail I mean we can park the car here but we can't leave the keys with it cuz we can't sit here and watch it unfortunately um do you have his number okay okay do you guys like all know each other or something something all right okay and do you know Sophia well okay and what's your name again Kayla Okay Sophia can Kayla come grab the keys and take your Jeep yes okay all right why don't you call um let me call call Siana call Siana how about that c Siana call Siana yeah that's fine I'm I'm not doing any of that so I'm going I'm going to call evidon real quick and see if that's okay bro call SI okay all right thanks bro all right brother hold on hey Dave do you mind hanging out with her for like two seconds let me answer it let me yeah hey man it's berer hey so apparently like you worked like a signal three or something with this girl is like kayn or something like that today it was cook okay but you like know you it's like kayn is like your girlfriend's best friend or something like that Kayla I I don't know she said something about like a signal 3 or something that you know about okay by uh I don't know so Side Story we're arresting her friend for a DUI and Kayla wants to yeah Sophia so Kayla wants to come pick up the car but we can't leave the keys in the car and stuff like that so she said Sophia's okay with you grabbing the keys and Kayla grabbing them from you later okay we're at uh second in Orange right now okay all right ask if she wants anything else out of there like Sophia that was mean what was you he just asked me oh ifone know so to deal with the car Kayla knows one of our officers we're going to give the key to that officer we're going to move your car over to the side a little bit and then Kayla's going to come grab the keys are you okay with that yes okay 100% no questions asked you're okay with that okay is there anything out of the car that you want no is your wallet in the car I just have to B is your wall in the car so that we can grabb your like ID and whatnot it's fine okay where's it at in the bar yeah your car your card is in the bar it's in the car okay in the bar okay can we go in and grab it okay hey wait yeah can I pee first we got to go to the jail for you to pee wait wait hold on yes are you okay with this yeah okay we're going to do the vehicle release motor vehicle release form she said it's okay but we'll probably just like park it right there yeah I'll stay with it and then I mean you don't if it's locked she's fine with her coming to pick it up later and leave it there so I just got to give these to C hey Sophia can we park the Jeep there and then Kayla can come pick it up later if I can piss you'll be able to piss at the jail yes is that okay please okay we'll get on the way I can just piss is this all she's coming to Jail uh said we can grab her license out of the car she said it was in the bar I don't know can you unlock it for me you know this girl too I know who she is dude she is ham she is hammered yeah apparently she got into two fours this week what yeah not DUI related this one's DUI oh yeah obvious a second I saw the shirt was Al and I'm like hey Alec Alec you have the keys right yeah okay I'm just going to lock it I'm not going to like search her car for her license I'm not that worried about it so um um you want me to move it anything else no you're good yeah if you just want to move it and we'll just put on the motor vehicle release form that it's going to be second in Orange we can print one off yes in ID number just have send you the screen oh you don't even need it you can just do it on there you want me to have right here I think all suspects are innocent until proven guilty thank you for watching