On May 30, 2024, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office was conducting a routine patrol when a dark colored convertible sped past an officer. After the vehicle was pulled over, the woman behind the wheel quickly became defensive, escalating the situation. Stop the vehicle. Stop the vehicle. Stop the vehicle. Stop the vehicle. You're You're going to go to jail. Stop the vehicle. I do not care. Stop the vehicle. Shut the car off. Shut the car off and step out. I don't want you to hurt my dog. I'm trying to get Let me get another unit. Normal, please. Please let me get my dog. Get out of the vehicle. Get Yes, ma'am. Stop the vehicle. Listen. Ma'am, listen to me. Please understand. Do you want to go to jail? Please stop the vehicle. Put the vehicle in park. Can I explain something? Are you Get out of the vehicle, ma'am. [Music] That's fine. Get out of the vehicle, please. I'm going to I'm going to right ma'am right now. Right now. Get out of the vehicle. Ma'am, get out of the vehicle. Please. Ma'am, get out of the vehicle. No, sir. You will not do that. Ma'am, get out of the vehicle or you're going to go to jail. I am telling you. Then get out of the vehicle, please. This is your last warning. Please get out of the vehicle or you're going to go to jail. Thank you. Go anyways. Right. Put the dog down. Put the dog to get out. Put the dog down. How the do I put her down? I ain't got no problem. Get out of the vehicle then. Exactly. The is you talking about? You don't even know what you're talking about. Shut up. You want to be mad or something? Step over here for me. No, I'm going step right here. Step over here. Step over here. Why do I have to go that way? Because I asked you to and I'm telling you to because I I want you to step over here. Step away from your vehicle. This for no reason. You're going 66 and the 35. That's the reason. There's no such thing as a 35 after you pass that. After you pass that sign, I know my rights ma'am camera in my car. That's fine. Step over here. I know. So, I'm not Step over here. Step over away from your vehicle. Please step away from my vehicle. Step away, ma'am. I'm not going to your Okay. Turn around. Put your hands behind your back right now. Why are you doing this? Turn around. Why are you doing this? Relax. You don't want to listen to me. Stop. Relax. Relax. Relax. Relax. I don't care. Relax. Relax. Relax. Stop tensing up. You're making my anxiety. Relax. You're going to go to jail if you don't relax. I can't relax. I have anxiety. Relax. Relax. I don't think you actually know what you're saying. And y'all really need more training. I'm going to Can you get my inhaler out my garage, please? I didn't see the fight. Can you get my inhaler out my garage, please? Cuz that's why I want to make it in my house for my That's not how that works. Medical. You do not pick when you get to stop. No, I do because you're pulling me over to No. No. Why the doing all this? My camera is on in my car, by the way. That's fine. I have a camera on right now. No, but my camera saw my speed. Stop. No, but you're mishandling me right now. You're really mishandling me right now, and I don't like it. I I I don't like how you're handling Listen to me. Listen to me very carefully. I do not care what you think. And that's fine. But your car is very hot, sir. That's fine. I cannot stand right there. You're going to come in the back. Okay. Oh, you don't have to handle me like this. You were You were You were really mishandling. Do you know what resisting is? No. I do. Okay. You are not complying at all. You have not complied from the very beginning. Okay. At what point? Do you know failure to stop is a felony? You know what? Do you know what failure to stop is? It's a felony. Okay. Are you trying to catch a felony? Okay. Are you going to listen or you going to listen? I'm not going to listen because this is not a conversation. I am asking a question. Why you going to ask me a question if you don't want to hear the answer? How much marijuana is in the vehicle? No, she was not going to do that. I have a card. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, let me go. So, let me show you that. Okay. So, you know you know he's going to go for these pops going down, right? Cuz arresting me for being I'm not you are you have me right here for You're not going in my car. You do not have the right to go in my car. I am telling you that right. Relax. Stop tensing. You're going to jail. I'm going to jail for what though? What am I going to jail for? Why am I being arrested? You have to tell me before you put me in a car. Why am I being arrested? I'll give you 14 seconds. I would like to know why I'm being arrested. So, you're going to arrest me for no reason? Stop. No, I want to know why I'm being arrested. First of all, you slam it. Jesus Christ. My dogs in the house. Yes. Well, I I'll work with you. You haven't listened at all. His really bothering me. I don't even know why I'm here. I don't even know why I'm in the You can't talk to me back here. I said I have anxiety. This does not help me. No, it doesn't help. You not complying with my orders. I'm claustrophobic. I relax. Please let me out the thing. Take some deep breaths. Take some deep breaths for me. Please let me out. Please. Right now, I can't even talk to you. So, how can I let you out? Okay. I'm trying. But I don't even understand why. Why? Why? Don't you not go in my house. Don't go in my house. He's not going in your house. As soon as I go in my house, nobody's there. There is nobody there. Okay. My husband is at work and it's just me and my husband that live here. And I don't know why. I mean, right now. You're not being harassed. Nobody's hurt. You are harassing me because you put me back here when I told you. Hey, I have nothing. Hey, stop. I have nothing to do with any of this. Hold on. Let me talk. No. Is there anyone here who can get your dogs? Cuz you are not going to be the one that secures your dogs. There's nobody here. Is there anybody that I can call your dog? No. Because it's just me and my husband. I don't even know what y'all My husband works at the military base. I don't even know why y'all are bothering me right now. I am so confused and I'm scared. Look at how you're acting. This is not This is not how a normal person acts. I have anxiety. Understand? That's why I'm telling you. Take some deep breaths. Trying but it's hard back here. But right now it's really hard. Okay. I'm telling you my medicine. He asked you to step out of the car. You didn't want to step out of the car. Okay. What I said was I was trying to pull my dogs out because I didn't want my dogs to be hurt. Okay. Nobody wants to hurt your dogs. But that's what I was telling him. Ask him. I said, "I'm trying to put my dogs up." That's why open my garage. I was going to put my dogs up. And he was like, and he like I was going to run. I was like, "I'm not going to run." He doesn't know you from Adam. He doesn't know. And I know. I get that. So, just understand. He doesn't know you. You don't know him. I get that. Nobody's trying to be trying to make sure that my dogs didn't get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt a dog. Nobody comes to work and wants to hurt a dog. So that's why I love my baby. I'm seeing what you're saying. She can't see. She can't hear. She's scared. Okay. So she can't see. Which dog is the one you're talking about? It's the smallest one. The smallest one. She can't see right here. So she gets scared. Do you have a medical marijuana card? Yes, I do. And that's what I told him that too. And he said, "Sure." And laughed about it. And I don't even understand. Okay. And laugh and laugh. Listen. Listen to me. Listen to me. I don't even want to say. We're going to We're going to try and get a little bit calmer each time. Okay. We're going to get calmer. We're going to take some deep breaths. This is right now. The calmer you are, the better it's going to be. I cannot do this right now. It's too many lights. Please turn your lights off. Can y'all turn your lights off, please? They make They really don't help me. The lights don't help. Please, please turn your lights off. If the husband gets here and then searched 45 minutes. Okay. If you want to wait, I'm sure one of us will, but uh there was also a pistol under the driver's seat cuz I just read the arrest report. 104. Hey Tanya, do you have any guns in the car? Yeah. Huh? All right. You You know you're prohibited from having a firearm? No. Okay. Why? Cuz you have a medical marijuana card. No, I didn't know that. All right. I didn't know that was a thing. 174. Okay. So, you were denied a CCW, right? That means that you cannot have a concealed firearm. All right. In your possession. You're you're prohibited. Florida even though it's a carry state. Yes, ma'am. cuz you you the only time that constitutional carry applies is if you were legally able to have a concealed weapons permit, which you are not able to have. Well, I I I don't know how I know you don't have your job to make me understand that. It's the law. That's what the law is. Okay. Can I please blow my nose? I have snot going into my mouth. Ma'am, I I don't have anything to blow your nose. I told him I have napkins in my car. Please, they're in the door. All right. They're in my door. Look, you want to see my slide? It's so messy. All right, here's the other thing. Okay, listen. All right, we're going to address Can I turn back and look at the car again because my butt's sweating again? My anxiety is really bad. All right, Tanya, listen. Yes, sir. All right, I want I want you to understand something, okay? The other one, too, please. If you don't mind, I understand that you have a medical marijuana card, okay? In the state of Florida, all right, you cannot smoke in your vehicle even if smoking. So there that smell that is emitting very strongly from your vehicle with the windows down in a convertible. All right. Is a very strong smell. All right. Is burnt marijuana. Okay. Okay. It is the same. I am not crazy. I've been doing this job a long time. Say it was not the smell of burnt marijuana, sir. Okay. And you you are not legally allowed to smoke marijuana in your vehicle even if you have a concealed or a uh medical marijuana. Not I was not, but okay. Okay. That's one of your stipulations. Okay, sir. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to do that to you. I'm sorry. I keep getting sick to myself because I keep swallowing snot. I'm sorry. We can take the mask off. Even if I took the mask off, the snot wouldn't go away, sir. Where's the snot going to go if I take the mask? You can blow your blow your nose. Can I get another mask out the car? Then they're going to take You're good. That mask is coming off. Okay. No, I'm not. When we get to the jail, that mask is coming off. It is. They don't. Then that's something that you're going to have before and I've had my mask because I can't. All right. Listen. Yes, sir. You're going to get the ticket for your speed. Yes, sir. Okay. You're going to get arrested for obstruction resisting without violence. Okay. Can I get out on my R without going to the jail? No. You're going You got to go to the jail. Can I call my lawyer then? You can call your lawyer when you get to jail? Well, I don't know his number. It's in my car. It's in your phone. No. I car is in my car. You're going to you're the only thing going to jail with you is your phone. And do you have a wallet or purse in the in the car? Okay. Is there any marijuana in that in that purse? Um I can't think of any. I know there's a lighter in there, though. Okay. I don't care about the lighter. All right. Okay. All right. Have a seat back in the car, please. Okay. I'm going to go. I'm going to charge you with a felony of possession of prescription without Okay. Mhm. There's a bunch of different pills. There's a whole bunch of pills in my car. Yeah, a whole bunch of them. They're all mine. Not Not that one that didn't have your name on it. So, it's okay. It's my daughter. It's okay. Well, you don't want to answer questions, so I don't I don't know that. That's fine. You don't have to. Okay. Yep. You can put it all on there. I'm I'm I'm going to ride with all of it. Just for right now. I'm feeling better now. I got my snot out my nose. I've apologized and I've accepted what I've done wrong. And so, there's nothing left for me to do. All right. Are you under the influence on anything? I just said no, sir. I just said I am just accepting. It's called It's called Well, I I get that to a point, but it's called levels of stuff. No, sir. My medicine just kicked in. I just took my medicine before I left the house and it just kicked in. So, it's okay. I'm doing better now. I'm in a lot of pain and I really just want to be done with it. So, as quick as we can be done. I'm I pro I promise you I'm trying to because my other option would the quickest way would have been towing your car and and getting rid of your dogs or getting them to animal control. Okay. So, I'm I'm I'm trying to work with you. I am too, sir. I am really just trying to you guys want to be calm and I'm here. I'm calm. Okay. I'm in a lot of pain and I my my pain is actually overcoming every right now. Okay. Okay. All right. Do you need EMS or anything? I don't know cuz I just started back walking, sir. I couldn't even walk as of yesterday. I was. But you're driving. I know. I was I only drove because my battery was dead. And so the dude from TripleA told me my car had to run for an hour. And so I was like, well, if it's got to run for an hour, I got to go get gas because I can't live my I don't know what that has to do with anything. I wasn't supposed to leave my house. You're saying why did I leave? I could barely walk, but all I did was go to get gas because I was like, well, if I got to go get gas, I might as well take my dogs out. All right. And that's what I did. But I took my dogs out because I was getting gas because I had to let my car run. Okay. And I don't even know if it was going to start back. And that was the other thing I was going to tell you. That's why I wanted to pull in my yard because my battery But that is that is not how that works. I know. But you didn't let me explain to you. I don't need you. I asked you to step out of the vehicle, Tanya. And you told me to turn the car off and I I just turned my car off because I don't know what you you look like you're trying to still evade me and pull in the garage while I'm trying to pull you over. I don't know that. I don't know that. I don't know you. I know. I All I know is I'm lighting you up and you're not stopping your vehicle and then you're backing up and I'm telling you to stop. I understand that completely. Okay. All right. I'm going to put your medical marijuana card in your purse. Okay. Are you Can you put my glasses case in my purse? I have them. Okay. Thank you. Listen, Tanya. Trying to work with you. All right. Do you want to answer a question for me? Is it going to get me out of the back of the car? Huh? Is it going to get me out of the back of the car? You want to back up the car and then shut the garage door? Do you want to or no? Well, it's it's going to help with charges wise. You said no. Okay. The woman was charged with fleeing and eluding police as well as resisting an officer without violence. She faces a maximum penalty of up to 6 years in jail or prison and fines up to $6,000. [Music]